About 60 percent of new HIV infections in New Zealand carried out by homosexual or bisexual contacts. In Bavaria and Germany it is around 80%, and even the conservative estimate of the Vienna AIDS support still talk about 41.5%. Nevertheless, the Life Ball benefits still a "world statistics", ie, only 1 percent will be the HIV-infected homosexuals.
New Zealand has released the latest figures of new HIV infections for the past year. "It was absolutely terrifying statistic that I've ever seen," the director of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation said at the presentation. Not even in the early '80s there was such a high number of new infections. According to the AIDS epidemic competent team at the University of Otago have last year, namely a total of 149 people infected with the virus again. This means not only a new 'record number', but also a new 'record' of new infections among homosexuals: A total of 90 of the 149 people belong to this group, namely, while only 35 persons infected through heterosexual contact. Among the new cases was a drug addict, the rest became infected in some unknown way. With these 90 new cases of the sad record of 2006 was broken. At that time, 87 people were infected through homosexual contact.
Similarly, the infection rates in the countries surrounding us stored: In Bavaria, for example, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) 2010, approximately 80% of newly infected men who have sex with men (MSM) have (as reported here). Similarly, the overall figure for Germany: the estimated 70,000 people who live in Germany with HIV or AIDS, MSM set with about 42,000 still by far the largest selcetion via heterosexual contact had the other hand, infected only about 10,000 people (we reported here). Even the very cautious here Wiener AIDS support estimates the number of new infections of MSM in relation to heterosexuals still to 41.5% (as reported here).
Meanwhile chose Life Ball organizer Gery Keszler, the openers for this year's Life Ball: Among the 100 couples who were selected from a total of 300 couples will find themselves just one gleichgeschlechtiches pair. Keszler defended this by saying that 'homosexual would be among the world's HIV-infected people, only about 1 percent. " Like this statement also - calculated on the total world population - sound quite the realistic (accurate figures are of course expressed in a recognized statistic, because it is the information from the developing countries usually are pure estimates), it seems, in the face of the figures all industrial countries hazardous. Easily it could distract from the fact that in the western Industieländern still - and shows how the latest example of New Zealand - to play the majority of HIV infections in homosexual environment. Of course, a proper education and the provision of appropriate medicines in developing countries is urgently needed. Once, however, is not expected with the fact that the Vienna Life Ball in the huts of the people is transferred to the developing countries, you should still deal in the Western industrialized countries with such statements of "only one per cent 'very carefully.
Source: Gaywien.at
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