Behavioral risk for HIV infection among gay and bisexual men in the United States
According to reports published by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), they state that by the year 2004, more than nine hundred and forty thousand individuals in the United States of America had been diagnosed with AIDS, majority of who were gay men and African-Americans. This report including others have brought the issue of HIV infection in gay and bisexual men into sharp focus and more in particular the behavioral risks that the group exposes themselves to, which have contributed to the sharp increase in HIV infection amongst members of this group. This research intends to focus of this behavioral risk and preventive measures that have been established to prevent HIV infection in gay and bisexual men in the United States.
Behavioral risk
Another recent research conducted by Centre for Disease Control and Prevention show that the gay and bisexual men in the United States of America who are living with HIV could surpass half a million mark that can be translated to half of people living with HIV in the U.S. The same research also indicated that this group only represent four percent of the entire male population in the U.S. they are also the same group that reports the highest number of new HIV diagnosis among the male population in the country and due to this statistics the research by CDC concluded that the gay and bisexual men in the U.S. are the only group upon which HIV infections is still on a steady increase since the early 1990's.
According to the article written by Latkin, Sherman & Knowlton, (2003, p 332-339) some of the factors that have contributed to increase in HIV infection among this group include; first by the fact that a big percentage of gay and bisexual men are HIV positive means that anyone who is in this group and is sexually active, and also has a tendency...
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