Half of the AIDS/HIV cases in black men come from homosexual activity. And about 3/4 of AIDS/HIV cases in black women come from heterosexual activity. Why are people so selfish? Why don't they just come out of the closet and deal with the consequences? So what if people talk about you? Just stop killing innocent women and children!!!
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/aa/resources/factsheets/aa.htm
2007-04-08 14:10:22 · 8 answers · asked by Bigapples.CC 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
It would be nice if it weren't so looked down upon for Black men of any culture to be gay. They have to keep it on the "down low" which makes it so much more dangerous.
I agree with you, but society really doesn't make it very possible for them to just come out of the closet and deal with it.
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2007-04-08 14:29:04 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Bravo! And what's really stupid, in many parts of Africa, where heterosexual activity is the predominant spreading activity, there has been a malicious 'urban legend'-type story going around that if a man (with AIDS) sleeps with a virgin, it will cure him. So poor girls get raped or seduced or bought into a marriage so a man with AIDS can get cured. People I know who have been there, and as has been presented often on TV, tell how in village after village the population of adults has been killed off by this sickness. In a story last year, in one village visited there were no adults, just children, and half the children were sick.
You are right it is horrible.
A vaccine was tested a couple of years ago, and this I find horrible, the American homosexual society essentially killed the final test projects. It seems that the predominantly white American gays were unhappy that the vaccine gave almost no help for them, but it did for over two-thirds of blacks who were tested. Imagine turning down the Vaxgen vaccine because it helped blacks but not whites! So they trumped up calls of unethical practices when it was tested further in Thailand (Asians, btw, also responded better than whites). The same protocols that were accepted in the first test were suddenly immoral when American whites could not benefit. Look it up. It was in the papers.
2007-04-08 22:24:11 · answer #2 · answered by Rabbit 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes that is true the black men who are to afraid and selfish to be honest about who they sleep with and their sexual preference are wrong for the spread of the disease. They are 50% of the problem, a woman in the US has the choice to have protected, safe sex with a partner (be it female or male condom). To get tested regularly, and to know the status of herself and her partner. (and to not engage in multiple sexual partners) In Africa and many other countries women don't have the choices or freedoms we have. I am not making an excuse for the small percentage of wives who are married to DL men and are unknowingly at risk, but the "wifey females" and girlfriends who have no respect for their own safety. (But in this day in age it's better safe than sorry regardless of marriage)
2007-04-08 22:47:07 · answer #3 · answered by Harmony Oasis 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
More importantly, why aren't people practicing safe sex? It's such a small thing, that can save so many, many lives.
2007-04-08 22:14:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why target just black men and women?
2007-04-08 21:32:27 · answer #5 · answered by persnicady 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
why can't they find someone else who has aids and get with them and stop spreading the stuff!?
2007-04-08 21:14:46 · answer #6 · answered by uranus2mars 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
because they don't know they have it, and because people are unsafe. they don't verify if thier partner has it or not.
2007-04-08 22:25:07 · answer #7 · answered by Aomi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree.
2007-04-08 21:49:44 · answer #8 · answered by pjonkml 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋