BBC News has reported that HIV levels in gay men are ‘not
falling’. They state that researches
suggest that a resurgence of risky sexual practice could be behind a failure to
curb HIV in gay and bisexual men in England and Wales. There is a large increase of new cases
showing up at about 2,300 a year between 2001 and 2010. Researchers at the Medical Research Council
Biostatistics Unit, in Cambridge have estimated when people were infected is
based on how well their immune system was.
Today, there has been a greater number of men being tested for HIV in
clinics. Men tested went from 16,000 to
59,000 a year. It is suggested that
campaigning has helped increase the awareness in men about HIV and how
important it is to be tested if sexually active and having unsafe sex.
HIV is largely impacting people around the world. Not only is it affecting people who practice
same sex intercourse, but people who have heterosexual intercourse as well. Poorer regions around the world did not have
access to proper medical treatment several years ago. Today, there are foundations that are funding
these poorer regions and making medical treatment available to those who are suffering
with HIV and full blown AIDS. Without a
cure, the disease continues to spread.
With people having the ability to travel cheaper and infected with the
HIV virus, may spread the disease to someone in another neighboring country or
a country far away. With globalization,
meaning “the removal of barriers to free trade and the closer integration of
national economies,” means that it is easier for people to connect and build
sexual relationships. The only true way
to slow the spreading of the HIV virus is for everyone to be tested
annually. This seems simple, but testing
can be expensive and or is not available to poverty stricken nations who cannot
afford to be tested.
Jacqueline Wooten
2/4/2013; 9:57 PM
2/4/2013; 9:57 PM
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