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Washington, D.C. — Roughly 3 percent of Washington, D.C. residents have HIV or AIDS according to a new report due for release Monday from D.C. health officials. Additionally, almost 10 percent of District residents between the ages of 40 and 49 has HIV or AIDS.
The national average is only 1 percent, and at the height of the epidemic in San Francisco, roughly 4 percent of its population was HIV positive.
"Our rates are higher than West Africa," Shannon L. Hader, director of the District's HIV/AIDS Administration, told the Washington Post. "They're on par with Uganda and some parts of Kenya."
Men having sex with men has remained the leading mode of transmission for the disease. Heterosexual transmission and injection drug use closely follow, the report says.
"We have every mode of transmission" -- men having sex with men, heterosexual and injected drug use -- "going up, all on the rise, and we have to deal with them," Hader said.
According to the report, more than three-quarters — 76 percent — of the HIV infected are black, 70 percent are men and 70 percent are age 40 and older.
Three percent far surpasses the 1 percent threshold that constitutes a "generalized and severe" epidemic according to the report.
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This saddens me because im an HIV/AIDS actavist and no matter how many warning signs are, most of us are not taking the necessary percautions to protect ourselves or our partners. I don't like it when people walk around with the attitude of, "if i have it, i don't want to know," thus already cuting they life short by not getting treated and according to the woodman walker clinic i volunteer at the fastest raise of HIV/AIDS is in African American Males ages
16-17. I encourage everyone to get tested on the regular and always practice safe sex and stay informed about HIV/AIDS because it doesn't effect not only the individual but us as a nation in whole.
you're right though, ass isnt a place to stick a dick in, that's why you're tissue gets torn and that leads to AIDS because your ass is connected to your immune system unlike vagina which is an organ that is separated