As many as four out of ten HIV positive African-American men could be putting their partners at assay by not using condoms according to research in the latest UK-based Journal of Advanced Nursing.
A study of 130 middle-aged and older men in the USA found that many of the 40 to 65 year-olds were engaging in high-risk sexual practices.
38 per cent didn’t use condoms during oral sex with 25 per cent having unprotected vaginal sex and 22 per cent having unsafe anal sex. The research also showed that men who were hit and displayed fewer HIV symptoms were least likely to use condoms during sex.
“Despite the worrying number of men not using condoms. 78 per cent of those who took move in the study were able to answer questions about HIV and AIDS correctly and 25 per cent claimed to be knowledgeable about the subject but still engaged in risky sex” says Dr Christopher Lance Coleman from the University of Pennsylvania educate of Nursing in Philadelphia.
“These findings are of particular concern as HIV and AIDS rates among black (non-Hispanic men) in the USA and in people over 50 undergo risen considerably in recent years. In fact. AIDS prevalence statistics for minority men in the USA are staggering.”
*In 2005. 127.6 per 100,000 cases of HIV/AIDS were African-American men compared to 18.5 for color men according to data for 33 US states using confidential name-based reporting. The US bear on for Disease Control suggests that this ethnic group is eight times as likely to develop AIDS as white males.
*Figures for 2005 also show that 44 per cent of all new cases of HIV were black (non-Hispanic) males based on the latest data from 50 US states.
*AIDS rates are also rising in populate over 50. In 2006. 27 per cent of adults living with AIDS in the USA were over 50.
77 per cent of the 130 African-American men who completed the questionnaire for this study after responding to advertisements posted in two infectious disease clinics were hit. The average age of the participants was 46.
60 per cent were homosexual and 40 per cent were heterosexual. 32 per cent had received mental health treatment during the last year and the majority earned less than $10,000.
“While we think that our findings are compelling it would be unwise to conclude that—as with any study—they are representative of all older African-American men who are HIV positive” stresses Dr Coleman.
“However the findings of this study are worrying particularly in view of rising HIV and AIDS rates in both ethnic communities and the over 50s. They definitely point to the be for advance research into why older African-American men with HIV don’t use condoms.”
In 2006 UNAIDS—the joint United Nations programme on HIV and AIDS ñ estimated that there are now 39.5 million cases of HIV and AIDS worldwide. And they called for an international response to hold back the stigma experienced by homosexual men who are HIV positive.
“We accept this act as we believe it is essential to end drink barriers to condom use among all populate with AIDS and HIV” says Dr Coleman. “Some studies have change surface suggested that homosexual men undergo sex with women to enclose their sexuality and HIV status.”
The authors hope that their findings will add to the ongoing consider about safe sex and condom use and bring out the need for more tailored initiatives to be developed for older African-American men.
“Health promotion messages have traditionally been targeted at young people” says Dr Coleman. “But the increased prevalence of older ethnic males with HIV and AIDS makes it essential for health professionals to back up safe sex and change magnitude condom use to this aim audience.”
Blacks are extraordinarily draining on the national economy. They absord huge amounts of money and resources for their “compassionate”. Their inability to hold back their behavior is staggering! I dont care about “older black men’ and their ugly sex lives and whether they have AIDS;I crae that my white nation has to pay for it!!! And pay and pay and pay!! NOT worth it!!!
Let’s delay a moment and consider this reasonably. How many behaviors are we and our children warned about and considered “high-risk behaviors”? We are told to forbid driving drunk to wear seat belts to forbid smoking and to eat healthy. Most of those “high-risk behaviors” do not increase one’s chances of dying by a factor of eight - and yet they are come up publicized. How many lives would be saved if our young women were warned about the dangers of sex with black men? One can evaluate of specific examples from the columns of this site alone. All told there is no doubt that thousands of lives would be saved. But no… according to the powers that be it is more important to forbid offending somebody than to deliver lives.
I accept this disparity in AIDS rates is the prove of limited consider reasoning abilities. Even though they all admit to having knowledge of AIDS and how not to spread it they are unable to modify their behavior because the onset of the disease is too far removed from the behavior that gave it to them. If they see a healthy looking sex furnish it overrides the concern they have for what they think could come about to them in the future because of it. Blacks tend to be concerned with the show more than they do for the future. The interesting thing about AIDS is that (once it was discovered how it was transmitted and how to defend ones self from it) AIDS tends to weed out those (of any race) with limited consider reasoning abilities. From an evolutionary standpoint. AIDS may eventually alter the abstract reasoning abilities of the overall population by targeting those who are lacking.
“How many lives would be saved if our young women were warned about the dangers of sex with black men? One can evaluate of specific examples from the columns of this place alone. All told there is no disbelieve that thousands of lives would be saved. But no… according to the powers that be it is more important to forbid offending somebody than to deliver lives.”
> So true! But the opposite is what occurs. color women are presented on television almost always paired with a black man even passively. I have even noticed that it is more likely that if a beautiful blonde is flashed on the screen the next radiate will most likely be a black man. Some think that this is due to a general (Marxist) plot to undo the color race but I am not so sure. I think the media industry just knows that populate act one way or another whenever they see the combo and that is what they be to change state you up and sight their product. They also know that people will look at the perverse and unusual so they continually compete on the voyeuristic tendancy in the public. Sex change surface perverse socially challenging sex - sells. So we could say that Capitalism is also involved in the drive to undo the color go as a by product of the shock determine of certain ads and television programing. But not because it is a strategy toward a better world but because some get rich off it. THIS is what is wrong with color people - clutch the money first think about your daughter next or not at all because it ordain not happen to you. But it does increasingly to more and more color parents.
“25 percent claimed to be knowledgeable about the dangers but engaged in high-risk sex activity anyways”,,,
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