In 2011, the CDC found that 1.2 million Americans had HIV and 86% of them knew it. But only 40% were seeing a doctor or other provider about it — even though HIV has no cure and it’s a lifelong infection that requires a lifetime of medical attention. Just 37% had a prescription for the drugs that can keep the virus under control, and only 30% actually had the virus controlled. That means 840,000 Americans have uncontrolled HIV in their bodies. Even more startling, only 13% of people ages 18 to 24 who were infected were taking an effective dose of HIV drugs.The human immodeficiency virus or HIV is usually transmitted sexually but also in blood, via shared needles or from mother to child at birth. It attacks the immune system, so if it isn’t treated, people can develop infections or cancer and die. The drug cocktails keep the virus from replicating and circulating in the blood, so patients stay healthy and don’t infect others.
Author’s note: This information is of particular concern to gay and bisexual men because approximately 63% of all new HIV diagnosis in the US is among gay men; in addition, 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 CDC. And, the majority of new infections among the gay male community are in the age group of 13-24; for the most part, these boys and young men grew up in the post-AIDS era of homosexual media sanitization – meaning, they have been brainwashed by those who have pushed for gay marriage – this has been a programmed and systematic post-modern reinvention of the gay male image; gone are the pictures of gay men dying from AIDS. Therefore, they are being pushed and thrown into an HIV infested community that neither has the infection under control, nor curbed the actions which are the primary modes of transmission. In essence, they have become lambs led to the slaughter.