[leflyCode]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25808098SAN YSIDRO, Calif. - AIDS rates in the nation's Latino community are increasing and, with little notice, have reached what experts are calling a simmering public health crisis.Though Hispanics make up about 14 percent of the U.S. population, they represented 22 percent of new HIV and AIDS diagnoses tallied by federal officials in 2006. According to a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Hispanics in the District have the highest rate of new AIDS cases in the country.So far, the toll of AIDS in the nation's largest and fastest-growing minority population has mostly been overshadowed by the epidemic among African Americans and gay white men. Yet in major U.S. cities, as many as 1 in 4 gay Hispanic men has HIV, a rate on par with sub-Saharan Africa.

[Tnzxovoz]

You left out the word "Yippee!" in the thread title... a sign of moderation and good taste.

[Poothevokprot]

Well, with all the blacks afraid of mowing lawns in the suburbs, it is an important story!!!

[SkHukV3N]

Maybe some of you are having second thoughts about that pendejo you were with last night?

[Meowmeowz]

If a culture has a prevalance of out of wedlock children such as the latino community especially here in the NY area, cant be surprised that since they are having unprotected sex that diease is also involved.

[engacenus]

The generalizations are flying all over the place in this thread, eh?

[ionitiesk]

Not meaning to be offense but look at the number in that particular community. It is common sense if people are having unprotected sex and having babies, they also are running the risk of std's, no matter what race they are.

[Efksqhyu]

What "number" are you referring to?

Specifics, please.

[bMc8F9ZI]

Report warns of AIDS ‘crisis’ across South.

Half of deaths occur in 17-state region as federal, private money dries up.


AIDS specialists are calling for a fundamental rethinking of HIV policy after a new report showed that infection with the virus was rising dramatically in the South even as it dropped everywhere else in the country.
The warning, issued this week by the Southern AIDS Coalition, a nonprofit partnership of government and private-sector programs based in Birmingham, Ala., concluded that AIDS was creating a health disaster in the South.

“The South is faced with a crisis of having to provide medical and support care for increasing numbers of infected individuals without adequate funding,” especially among the young and among minority Southern communities, the report concluded.

“African-American women are 83 percent of all [new] cases that we can document,” said Bambi Gaddist, executive director of the South Carolina HIV/AIDS Council and a member of the AIDS Coalition board of directors. “And the new epidemic is young people. They’re between 22 and 24.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25819585/