do gays honestly have a better chance of aids.?

Question

this is a serious non opionated question. please don't answer with biased opinions but factual answers will be appreciated.

Answer 1

I would like to point out the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa. Perhaps instead of asking this question you could look up some information about the HIV virus. Such as, that it is a blood born virus that is transmitted between all sorts of people. At the moment, the statistics show that there is a greater risk in the heterosexual community, espeically when married men have unprotected anonymous sex with other men and have unprotected sex with their girlfriends and partners and pass on the virus this way. There is also the transmitted of the HIV virus in the drug community through needle sharing.

When AIDS first emerged, no-one could have predicted how the epidemic would spread across the world and how many millions of lives it would change. There was no real idea what caused it and consequently no real idea how to protect against it.

Now we know from bitter experience that AIDS is caused by the virus HIV, and that it can devastate families, communities and whole continents. We have seen the epidemic knock decades off countries' national development, widen the gulf between rich and poor nations and push already-stigmatized groups closer to the margins of society. We are living in an 'international' society, and HIV has become the first truly 'international' epidemic, easily crossing oceans and international borders.

Already, more than twenty-five million people around the world have died of AIDS-related diseases.

In 2005, around 2.8 million men, women and children lost their lives.


In high-income nations, HIV infections have historically been concentrated principally among injecting drug users and gay men. These groups are still at high risk, but heterosexual intercourse accounts for a growing proportion of cases. In the United States, more than a quarter of people diagnosed with HIV in 2004 were female, and more than three quarters of these women were probably infected as a result of heterosexual sex. In several countries in Western Europe, incuding the United Kingdom, heterosexual contact is the most frequent cause of newly diagnosed infections.

Answer 2

The simple answer is yes. HIV (which is the virus that causes AIDS) is transmitted the following ways:

1) Sharing IV needles
2) Blood transfusion
3) Unprotected sex

The uterine wall is rather resilient and if an infected male ejaculates inside, there is a lower chance of infection. This is also true for oral sex when the male ejaculates in the mouth. However, anal sex is rife with problems. First because the anus is delicate and tears easily, there is a greater chance that semen can get into the bloodstream causing the infection.

Male-male sex is the riskiest for this reason. However, because of rampant condom use, the rates are getting lower. The lowest rates are with heterosexual females. The black community is getting hit because of a phenomenon called the Down-Low. Black males have girlfriends but have sex with me, unbeknownst to the woman. Often she gets infected.

Africa has terrifyingly high rates of infection presently. This is because of lack of adequate medical care, unprotected sex (though largely heterosexual). It would seem contrary to what I said earlier because some countries have a 40% infection rate. But the sex is largely heterosexual.

Answer 3

Get a life. Anyone is at risk whether gay or not. The percentages stay the same. Come and live in Africa and see that when you're a woman your chances are better of getting aids because of rapes about every 3 minutes...

Answer 4

That depends. Females and those playing the "receptive" role during a sexual encounter stand a greater chance of HIV infection. Males and those taking the "active" role stand a lesser chance of infection but the risk is still there. Gays don't stand a "greater" chance than anyone else simply because of their sexuality, it's particular behaviors(unprotected receptive role) that place certain people at higher risk.

Answer 5

i do no longer see what the huge deal is. Why no longer in easy terms try them, like all and sundry else, particularly of immediately out denying them the applicable? this ability that they are incorrectly assuming that each and every single gay individual interior the completed damn international has AIDs or HIV, particularly of being smart sufficient to be responsive to that some do no longer and their blood ought to help keep a existence.

Answer 6

Better? Better than what?

No, gays are not somehow predisposed to getting, contracting, passing on or dieing of HIV/AIDS.

UNPROTECTED SEX and direct exchange of bodily fluids is the ONLY way to transmit HIV the virus which causes AIDS.

Answer 7

No... a botched blood transfusion can cause aids, a dirty needle, a careless night (between two people of opposite or same sex) can be the key... it's just as common between straights as gays...

Answer 8

The last statistics I saw said that 40% of new AIDS cases in the U.S. were hetero black women. The majority of cases in Africa, where the disease is epidemic, are also hetero. This is not an attack on Black people, it's a comment on the Christians who are actively opposing safe sex among them.

Answer 9

20 years ago, probably, at least for gay men (gay women have generally been the lowest-risk category for sexual transmission).

but gay men as a community got their act together and promoted safe sex. The widespread irresponsible hetero sex of the 90s and beyond got nowhere near as much media attention as the unsafe gay male sex of the early/mid 80s.

Answer 10

Unfortunately yeah. You're more at risk of contracting it anally than vaginally due to small tears that develop during anal sex. It's the same reason gay guys are more at risk from Hepititis B.

Still saying that, there is a huge risk still, sleeping with an infected partner.