HIV is a manageable disease now and I personally think that even people who are diagnosed still don't have enough information about it.

The stigma is also a barrier. State hospitals and clinics nurses are extremely rude. A friend of mine once went for her regular check up and before she got in, a distraught lady came out of the room. My friend was next and the nurse was complaining about how that lady was in denial that she has HIV. That is cruel.

Working class people are in a better situation because they can afford private clinics that specialises in HIV/AIDS. They do gain a lot of information and support.

Its not really racist.. and he has a point sooo..

The lack of education on this site is unbelievable, the baseless sweeping statements and 'facts' without sources, it's like the comments section of a daily mail article. It's embarrassing.

simple. most colored people aren't accepting of homosexuality thus making them be "DL" and having sex w/o protection because they can't get pregnant, Also lack of sexual education.

HIV and other infectious diseases are more prevalent and concentrated in urban areas

you don't say... where there is more people there will be more people with pretty much every disease you can think of. There are also more treatment options and doctors to service the patients.

One of the things spreading HIV in general is a lack of education. People don't understand it or know how you get it. People also don't understand the treatments they have now and what "undetectable" means. There's also such a negative stigma put out there that people with HIV are somehow "tainted" or "less than" someone without HIV. Which is all a part of the HIV shaming we have going on. Which in turn makes people with HIV feel like they can't talk about it because they'll be ridiculed, and so they just lie and say they don't have it. There's so many factors that are causing us to lose this battle against HIV, but the biggest is education and awareness. People should have a healthy fear of it, yes, but not to the point where they make someone who does have it feel like a terrible disgusting person. I've seen it way too much in our community. There are worse diseases and illness out there.

As for the gay black male community, like others have said, lack of resources and education.

He's part of a minority he mentioned himself. Watch your mouth before you run it

This is more telling about your "racism" than it is of anyones. A literal joke

It's not education - the condom message is out there and has been for 25 years. It's culturally based within deep stigmas and denial within certain communities. People who are closeted are less likely to practice safe sex - possibly because it's easier to not acknowledge what they're doing.

Maybe be less preoccupied with having a PC knee jerk reaction and more concerned with the valid points made, even if they're not sensitively worded.

Male machismo is such a powerful construct in the black community that will be almost impossible to overcome

Sure... Education isn't the issue...its trying to get people who know that should be practicing safer sex to do it. That's what you're missing that's why all the resources in the world hasn't made new HIV infections go down....and we don't even know the full extent of who has HIV and who doesn't according to the studies. The ignorance on this issue is your own.

People's knee jerk reaction is to start saying people are poor and uneducated when there is nothing to back that statement up with.... And things we've done to combat this problem doesn't seem to stop people from catching HIV or from having unprotected sex. You have people in these forums who think Sero-sorting is an effective way to block HIV transmission when the majority of new infections are the result of one person not knowing their status...or realizing the limits of an HIV test being a test that tracks one moment in time.