But the news is not all good:
While HIV infection rates are down in general in the U.S., they’re spiking for men who have sex with men.
A report in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that HIV diagnosis rates among gay and bi men aged 13-24 rose from about 3,000 to about 7,000 between 2002 and 2011.
Experts point to poor risk-assessment skills, and a generation that wasn’t alive during the worst of America’s AIDS epidemic, as factors. Until there is a cure, it’s our responsibility to educate ourselves and each other into making safer and smarter choices.
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