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I'm pretty sure that HIV is more prevalent amongst heterosexual people than gay men. Unless you are saying that most Africans are gay, that most SE Asians are gay, and that most Papuans are gay (hint - they're not).

In most 1st world nations your assertion _may_ be true, but in Australia at least HIV is most prevalent in the needle sharing community.

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There are more heterosexuals than homosexuals. I am saying per capita it is very very disproportionate and that is backed up by the facts of the matter. There's no arguing against it. That doesn't mean being gay is wrong or anything of the sort, just that people in that community have to be more careful. The news reporting on that or on the monkeypox thing doesn't mean it's perpetuating some sort of bigotry, it is informing that community to be on the lookout and to be safe. Arguing against informing our gay counterparts/friends of a virus to be PC or whatever is detrimental to the health of people we care about.

My post was downvoted. Here's where the numbers are: https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet

It says:

New HIV infections have been reduced by 52% since the peak in 1997.

    In 2020, around 1.5 million [1.0 million–2.0 million] people were newly infected with HIV, compared to 3.0 million [2.1 million–4.2 million] people in 1997.
    Women and girls accounted for 50% of all new infections in 2020.

The assertion that 86% of new infections are in the gay community is false

I'm gay, and I downvoted you. Obviously transmission rates are very different around the world, but I'll just speak for the US: in the US the majority of new HIV infections are still men who have sex with men, with 66% of all cases and 81% of all men (and gay men make up 5-10% of men): https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/stat...

Heck, the reason I'm on PrEP, and the reason virtually every other sexually active, non-long-term-monogamous gay man I know is also on PrEP, is because I know my risk of HIV infection is an order of magnitude more than straight men.

Gay and bisexual men account for 66% of new HIV infections in the US, according to the CDC.

It's obviously different globally, where homophobia and prostitution mean different groups are vulnerable to HIV.

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