NEW STUDY: Less then 1/2 of 1 percent of U.S. adults have HIV

[Squirt]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About one-half of one percent of young adults living in homes in the United States are infected with the AIDS virus, around 600,000 people, the National Center for Health Statistics reported on Tuesday.

The agency's snapshot of HIV infection in the United States shows the rate continues to be stable and confirms other surveys that show black men are far more likely than other Americans to be infected.

The report covers adults aged 18 to 49 and only people living in households -- not prisoners, the homeless or patients in institutions, said Gerry McQuillan, who led the study.

The data comes from people taking part in the federal government's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, who volunteer to have their blood tested for everything from cholesterol to AIDS and herpes, as well as undergo full physical exams.

"What we have done is taken data from our surveys in 1999 to 2006 because HIV has a very low prevalence. You have to combine all the years," Gerry McQuillan, who led the study, said in a telephone interview.

"In 1999 to 2006, the prevalence of HIV infection among adults aged 18-49 years in the civilian noninstitutionalized household population of the United States was 0.47 percent," the report reads.

That works out to anywhere between 447,000 people and 841,000 people, with 618,000 the middle number, McQuillan said.

Men were more likely to be infected (0.7 percent) than women (0.2 percent). People infected with the herpes simplex type 2 virus, known as genital herpes, were 15 times more likely to also be infected with HIV, according to the report, available at www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db04.pdf.

Black men aged 40 to 49 had the highest rate of infection, at close to 4 percent, the survey found.

The National Center for Health Statistics, part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, included 11,928 adults in the survey. These numbers can be extrapolated to the full population.

"We do see the disparities by race/ethnicity," McQuillan said. "We can say the prevalence is basically stable in this U.S., household-based population."

The report does not include data on how many people are newly infected with HIV.

These numbers have not been released but AIDS advocacy groups say the new figures will put the number of Americans infected with the AIDS virus each year close to 50 percent higher than previous estimates, at 55,000 instead of 40,000.

The CDC has estimated in the past that more than 1 million Americans in total are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS.

Globally, 33 million people are infected and 25 million have died from the fatal and incurable virus. [ source ]


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So now that you know that .47% of people in America have HIV/AIDS does that change your thoughts on bareback porn?

[longboardjim]

I guess the question I have is this "sexual-transmission" or "sharing needles"?(drug use)
there are so many variables to contracting HIV I am not going to blame the adult industry entirely. ( interpreted: bareback cannot "bare" the brunt entirely , drug use , HIV tests are not 100% accurate , condoms break , people lie. )
the only sure way to stop HIV would be to stop having sex so I encourage those of you "animate" about stopping the spread of HIV in the interest of the public to close your studios/companies/etc. , by eliminating adult we eliminate the "platform" and/or need for models and thus in the absence of porn people will simply forget to have sex and HIV will go away. :fool: ( interpreted: I will continue to "safeguard" my employee/models/etc. as best as I can but life goes on and so must we. )

sincerely ~ ..."I will survive" - gloria gaynor

[jIgG]

something doesn't make sense ... if there are 50,000 new infections per year shouldn't that number be higher than 800k by now?

and those numbers come from only people who actually bothered to go and get tested...

[Kushiel]

something doesn't make sense ... if there are 50,000 new infections per year shouldn't that number be higher than 800k by now?

and those numbers come from only people who actually bothered to go and get tested...

"The data comes from people taking part in the federal government's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, who volunteer to have their blood tested for everything from cholesterol to AIDS and herpes, as well as undergo full physical exams."

No... it comes from people who have submitted themselves specifically to this particular census/test of a wide-range of examination, from complete blood-work to the 9's, as well as a complete physical.

[Titanmen]

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/msm/re...sheets/msm.htm

HIV/AIDS among Men Who Have Sex with Men- Revised June 2007

In the United States, HIV infection and AIDS have had a tremendous effect on men who have sex with men (MSM). MSM accounted for 71% of all HIV infections among male adults and adolescents in 2005 (based on data from 33 states with long-term, confidential name-based HIV reporting), even though only about 5% to 7% of male adults and adolescents in the United States identify themselves as MSM [1, 2].

The number of HIV diagnoses for MSM decreased during the 1980s and 1990s, but recent surveillance data show an increase in HIV diagnoses for this group [3, 4]. Additionally, racial disparities exist with regard to HIV diagnoses within the MSM population. A recent study, conducted in 5 large US cities, found that HIV prevalence among black MSM (46%) was more than twice that among white MSM (21%) [5].