Is the gay community more at risk for HIV/ AIDS?

Question

If so then why?

If you are just going to put down or insult anyone don't waste your time "answering" my question.

Answer 1

The WORLD is at risk for HIV and AIDS. Since homosexuals make up less than 10% of the entire world's population these numbers should accurately reflect the large heterosexual population living with HIV and AIDS today:

People living with HIV/AIDS in 2006--- 39.5 million
Adults living with HIV/AIDS in 2006 ----37.2 million
Women living with HIV/AIDS in 2006 --17.7 million
Children living with HIV/AIDS in 2006--- 2.3 million

More than 25 million people have died of AIDS since 1981.

At the end of 2006, women accounted for 48% of all adults living with HIV worldwide.

Young people (under 25 years old) account for half of all new HIV infections worldwide - around 6,000 become infected with HIV every day.

Adults are defined as men and women aged 15 or above, unless specified otherwise.

Answer 2

Yes, gay men are more at risk for HIV , more so since the gay activists have put out the idea that it is " not a gay disease" . Yet according to the CDC , more gay men are getting HIV in the USA now than ever before. as a matter of fact 52% of NEW cases of HIV are gay or bisexual men ( which is a lot considering that gay men make up only 10% of the population) Spokespersons for the CDC have stated that in most cases the infections in gay and bisexual men are coming as a result of continued unprotected anal sex, despite all warnings to avoid it..


by the way...LUI is wrong ........... using HIV medications does not in any way reduce the chances of passing on the HIV infection.

Answer 3

Yes for the time being it is yes, gay community is more at risk for HIV becoz:

- Gay men are men who culturally "easy-going" to sex with many partners
- No social morality form for homosexuality like straights.... so most of them are selfish and play around, that's risk.
- Analsex practice is more risky to get sexual diseases transmited, AIDS in particualar

But for a long term, this will change, it's up to AIDS education!

Answer 4

Slightly but it's not like all gay people get hiv/aids. It's becuase many gay people have anal sex, and the anus tears easily and bleeds. And also some don't even use a condom becuase they say that can't get pregnant. I'm not like those gays though I'm very carefull becuase I don't want HIV.

Answer 5

The chance of you catching AIDS through Anal sex is almost equal to that of Vaginal sex. AIDS is passed through contact with bodily fluids such as blood or semen. Whenever penetration occurs, vaginal or anal, small tears in the lining of the surrounding walls appear, which obviously entails that a very small amount of blood will appear to try and repair the tear, which in turn can lead to infection, should either partner have AIDS.

The gay community might be more at risk due to negligence or refusal to use condoms but that is being tackled in many countries now, I for one (Being Seventeen) have had warnings and information given to me and explained to me many times since i came out about AIDS and the risks and I am fully aware of the consequences. This is the case in most of the western world.

Answer 6

no, unlike the African hetero community -- who are currently the leaders in getting AIDS -- most gay men take precautions before having sex. They're called condoms. Some of us don't even have insertive sex. Mutual masturbation and frottage are a lot hotter than slipping it in.

Answer 7

No. Research done by the CDC shows that the number of homosexuals contracting the disease is rapidly decreasing and the number of heterosexuals contracting the disease is rapidly increasing.

It was pure chance that it was a homosexual who first brought the disease from Africa, it could just have well been a straight guy. And, at that time, gays saw no reason to use protection, so the disease was spread very quickly.

However, apparently at least one of the men was bisexual, because he had sexual contact with women who then contracted the disease and spread it among homosexuals.

Just my two cents.

Answer 8

In the U.S. I'd say so because "safe sex" is generally used with the intention of stopping pregnancy, and it's easy for gays to not think about disease. In Africa, though, it's a big problem for everyone in general.

Answer 9

My answer is maybe.

You could argue yes because it's more prevalent in the gay community. But you could argue no because the majority of gay people who have it are medicated, which means it's very hard for them to pass it on.

The problem is with people that are undiagnosed, so don't know they have it, and I've got no clue what the numbers are for those.

Answer 10

gay men are at more risk: Yes.
The reasons are well documented:
-They participate in unprotected sex with many partners
-Anal sex is a much more effective route for passing aids/hiv than any other sexual route.
-And the community of gay men as a whole has a higher incidence of the disease.