HIV Infection Is Most Concentrated In The South, Where Students Don’t Learn About It

[mercury14]

Hooray for red state ignorance-only sex education!

Health classes in Texas, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana aren’t required to provide any kind of medically accurate information about HIV. And in two of those states — Texas and Florida — public schools don’t have to offer any type of sexual health education whatsoever.

The HIV epidemic continues to take a disproportionate toll on men who have sex with men (MSM) — 62 percent of all HIV diagnoses are attributed to male-to-male sexual behavior, even though MSM represent just two percent of the U.S. population — yet the nation’s sexual health requirements also lag behind when it comes to sexual orientation. None of the southern states with the highest rates of HIV infection require public schools to provide LGBT-inclusive information in their health classes — and Alabama, South Carolina, and Texas actually stipulate that teachers must impart negative, shame-based information about homosexuality.

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/surveillance...11_HIV_Surveillance_Report_vol_23.pdf#Page=68
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/01/1657181/hiv-infections-south-sex-ed/?mobile=nc

 

[koalabear]

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MORON is getting desperate for attention.

 

[WeedSmoke420]

www.afraidtoask.com

 

[aqwertyuiop]

The aids epidemic correlates more closely with racial demographics than any other factor.

Race/ethnicity:

American Indian/Alaska Native 9.3
Asian 6.5
Black/African American 60.4
Hispanic/Latinob 19.5
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander 15.3
White 7.0
Multiple races 14.2

 

[WeedSmoke420]

The aids epidemic correlates more closely with racial demographics than any other factor.

Race/ethnicity:

American Indian/Alaska Native 9.3
Asian 6.5
Black/African American 60.4
Hispanic/Latinob 19.5
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander 15.3
White 7.0
Multiple races 14.2

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