06-18-2009, 12:51 PM
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So Fucking Banned
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Prescott, AZ
Posts: 2,158
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Originally Posted by Anthony
PORRA!!!
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No wonder why Brazil has the highest AIDS ratio compared to a country that is massive. The footage makes sense when that is what is pumped into the general populous' heads 
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National HIV prevalence (the proportion of the population who are living with HIV) is now estimated to be at least 1% in Belize, Guyana, Panama and Suriname. However, in most countries HIV is not generalized but is highly concentrated in populations at particular risk. Despite a national prevalence below 1%, Brazil (by far the region's most populous country) accounts for around 43% of people living with HIV in Latin America. In some Brazilian cities, more than 60% of drug users are HIV positive.
In the majority of South American countries, injecting drug use and sex between men are the most important routes of HIV transmission. The virus is then passed on to other sexual partners. In Central America, drug use plays a smaller role and most infections appear to be occurring through sexual transmission (both heterosexual and between men).
Unsafe sex among men who have sex with men (MSM) is common across the whole region. HIV prevalence rates among these men are between 10% and 25%. Nearly 60% of the HIV diagnoses to date, in Mexico can be attributed to unprotected sex between men. Studies in the Andean region have further highlighted the problem. HIV prevalence among MSM in Lima, Peru had been as much as 22%, but now is half that figure. Neighbouring Bolivia, however still has a HIV prevalence around 20% in MSM. In Lima sex between men is widespread; a tenth of men said they had sex with other men and of these, 9 out of 10 said they also had sex with women.
It is estimated that approximately 25% to 33% of men who have sex with men in Central America (not including Panama) also have sex with women. A high proportion of MSM who have sex with women do so without a condom, contributing to the increasing numbers of women becoming infected. A 2006 study showed that condom use among male sex workers in Latin America, particularly in Ecuador and Peru, was not adhered to as consistently as in female sex workers. However Colombia reports approximately 90% of sex workers, both genders, used condoms regularly in 2007.
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The bisexuality rate down there is actually 25-33%? WOW!  |
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