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AIDS roars back; blacks hit hardest

Chicago Tribune - June 1, 2001
Jeremy Manier and Achy Obejas, Tribune staff reporters

Twenty years after AIDS (news - web sites) was first recognized as an llness, new research shows young gay men with little memory of the isease's full horror are engaging in unsafe sex and contracting HIV (news web sites) at alarming rates. he problem is urgent among young, gay African-American men, 15 percent of hom are being newly infected with HIV, the AIDS virus, each year -- a ate six times greater than the figure among gays who are white, according o a new survey. he data, released on Thursday by the federal Centers for Disease Control nd Prevention (news - web sites), may reflect a troubling change of ttitudes among gay men at a time when powerful combinations of drugs, or ocktails, can slow HIV for many patients -- though not all. Forty percent f gay men in their teens and early 20s contacted for one phase of the urvey said they had unprotected sex in the preceding six months. hicagoan Rashad Burgess was just 5 years old on June 5, 1981, when the DC reported five cases of a rare pneumonia among gay men in Los Angeles. he cases were seemingly insignificant at the time, but those patients now re seen as the first recognized cases of AIDS -- though experts believe he virus might have infected Africans as early as the 1930s. ull story at Chicago Tribune mail this story - View most popular | Printer-friendly format Archived Stories by Date: May 31 May 30 May 29 May 28 May 27 May 26 May 25 May 24 May 23 May 22 May 21 May 20 May 19 May 18 May 17 May 16 May 15 May 14 May 13 May 12 May 11 May 10 May 09 May 08 May 07 May 06 May 05 May 04 May 03 May 02

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