New HIV infections in gay black men may be leveling off

New figures released by the CDC on the weekend show that while HIV diagnoses have fallen roughly 19 per cent nationwide from 2005 to 2014, infection rates among black and Latino gay and bisexual men continue to rise steeply.

MAKING people understand there is nothing to fear from HIV is not easy.

While the Deep South comprises only 28 percent of the USA population, in 2013 this region accounted for 40 percent of new HIV diagnoses and 34 percent of people living with HIV. Which, in Garofalo’s case, was definitely a good thing as he’d isolated himself in his apartment while he wallowed in a state of depression. For that reason, the Public Health Department this year examined changes over five-year intervals from 2000 to 2014.

This year, the number fell even lower, said Rick Dean, executive director of Face to Face, a nonprofit that provides services to people with HIV or AIDS. A year ago it was 31. The decline in the number of new HIV infections in Africa from 2.3 million to 1.4 million over the same period is also encouraging.

Renaming the Dublin Aids Alliance as HIV Ireland reflects the reality that for the majority of people living with HIV, progression to Aids is no longer inevitable. “There is so little HIV active in their blood, in their body”. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated that in the world, there are 36.9 million people, who have HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS.

According to Garofalo, a man who built his medical and research career on assisting patients afflicted with AIDS, he wouldn’t be exaggerating to say that “he saved my life”, the Detroit News reported. And public health campaigns aimed especially at intravenous drug users, men who have sex with men and other at-risk groups must be prioritised within the Government’s new sexual health strategy.

Keeping in line with the OAFLA focus on maternal and child health, discussions during the event focused on further reducing new HIV infections among children in Africa and China, and ensuring that all children, their mothers and pregnant women living with HIV have access to antiretroviral therapy.