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By The Associated Press

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Published: Sun, July 20, 2008 - 8:05 pm
Last Updated: Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 8:07 pm

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A report to be released in Birmingham
says HIV has taken hold in the Deep South, plaguing some of the
poorest people in the country and creating a health disaster.
The report by the Southern AIDS Coalition is set to be released
Monday.
It says federal funding to fight HIV/AIDS and support those
infected is concentrated disproportionately in wealthy parts of the
country.
The report says that the number of deaths from AIDS in the rest
of the nation dropped between 2001 and 2005, but rose in the South
for that period.
The report says the South has more new HIV cases than any other
region but ranks last of four regions in overall federal funding.

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MeAmerican, you are always so uptight and you think you are so right about everything, this indicates that you aren’t gettin any....MeAmerican, it’s your kind of ignorance that is spreading this disease, it’s not all about sex. Lets just say you go and have surgery, your doctor(who is unknowingly infecected) pricks his finger and bleeds into your incision and you contract AIDS, what will the all knowing MeAmerican do then?

Posted by Chellie28 on 07/21/08 - 4:31 pm • Report Abuse

Ok ... abstinence may work 100% of the time to keep it from being transmitted thru intercourse, but it is 0% effective from the people who are infected from a organ transplant or say a police officer or corrections officer bit by an inmate, or what about the medical professional who has a needle stick and contracts it. It really does go back to knowing your status and getting tested and letting other who are at risk knowing.

Posted by jlw274 on 07/21/08 - 10:08 am • Report Abuse

you gotta know mental retardation is also on the rise. Not trying to be funny. I work in health care. I have recently tried to speak with a hepatitis C pt. on using protection and they just
didn’t understand. they are in their 40’s with no caregiver. Twice in the last year they have been in with another treatable STD. I told them to have their partner screened. They said no they wouldn’t beleive they had it’ so they wouldn’t sleep with them no more. What do you do? moral of
the story one has STD and one has Hep. C and no telling who else they are sleeping with.

Posted by housedivided on 07/21/08 - 7:44 am • Report Abuse

“Lack of education about AIDS and not knowing your status by not getting tested are some of the causing factors to this increase, although abstinence is a good idea, what about the children that were born with AIDS, rape victims that were infected by there attackers and other things like that?”

Abstinence still works 100% of the time. If a baby is born with aids, just how was that baby conceived? “And other things like that????” Don’t be so naive!

Posted by MeAmerican on 07/21/08 - 4:12 am • Report Abuse

Lack of education about AIDS and not knowing your status by not getting tested are some of the causing factors to this increase, although abstinence is a good idea, what about the children that were born with AIDS, rape victims that were infected by there attackers and other things like that?

Posted by Chellie28 on 07/20/08 - 10:12 pm • Report Abuse

Why you gotta bring coke into this

Posted by SumOneILove on 07/20/08 - 9:03 pm • Report Abuse

Now hold up a sec. Last week the south was the most obese. Now aids cases are up. So are they trying to say we like greasy food and unprotected sex? Oh yeah, and cokes. Sounds pretty nasty too me.

Posted by MeAmerican on 07/20/08 - 8:42 pm • Report Abuse

Abstinence works 100% of the time!! Therefore either keep your legs closed or think w/the head on your shoulders. OR keep doing what your doing and risk death. It’s a matter of behaviour.

Posted by MeAmerican on 07/20/08 - 8:34 pm • Report Abuse