Younger men experiencing significant increase in new HIV infections
”These men represent a new generation that has not been personally affected by AIDS in the same way that their older peers were.”
Richard Wolitski, acting director of HIV-AIDS prevention at CDC, adding to the details of a study that found that men who have sex with men were the only risk group in which infections rose annually from 2001 through 2006. For 13- to 24-year-old males, there appears to have been a 12% annual increase — 8% for Hispanic men, 9% for white men and 15% for black men. (Washington Post)
”When you see a 15 percent yearly increase, that is an epidemic that is out of control.. And yet we don’t see a response that recognizes it is an epidemic out of control.”
Phill Wilson, head of the Black AIDS Institute in Los Angeles. (Washington Post)
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