New Study Says 50 Percent Of Gay Or Bisexual Black Men In America Will Catch HIV In Their Lifetime!

(NBC News) The average American has just a 1 percent risk of ever being infected with the AIDS virus, but gay and bisexual black men have a 50 percent risk, according to new federal data.



A quarter of Latino gay and bisexual men will be infected over their lifetimes, the new analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds.



And by region, the South, from Texas to Florida, has a higher rate of HIV infection than the rest of the country.



"Gay and bisexual men continue to be most affected by HIV in the U.S. At current rates, one in six men who have sex with men (MSM) will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetime, making them 79 times more likely than heterosexual men to be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetimes," the CDC team led by Kristen Hess reported.



"People who inject drugs are also at increased risk."



The report, released at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston, is the first to take a look at any given person's lifetime risk of becoming infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS.
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