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| Male to Male sexual contact and those living with HIV. |
In all major US metropolitan areas, well over 50% of those living with HIV contracted the disease through gay sex: in Los Angeles County it is 85.1%; in San Francisco County it is 78.7%; in New York County is it 71.4%.
Approximately one in five (19%) men who have sex with men (MSM) in a study of 21 major U.S. cities is infected with HIV, and nearly half (44%) of those men are unaware of their infection, according to an analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the study, young MSM and MSM of color were least likely to know their HIV status.