Dubbed “the first government study of its kind,” a new report from the CDC, released in Vienna at the XVIII International AIDS Conference, says urban heterosexuals in the U.S. are more likely to be HIV-positive if they are poorer; race is not a determining factor.
Maybe Obama’s new AIDS strategy should just lower the poverty line, and then the crisis would be solved!
The study involved a survey in 2006 and 2007 of 9,000 heterosexual adults, ages 18 to 50. They answered questions on a computer about their income, condom use and other details and were given HIV tests. The research was done in high-poverty neighborhoods in 23 U.S. cities. It focused on heterosexuals who don’t use intravenous drugs; that group accounts for about 28 percent of Americans living with HIV. It did not involve gay or bisexual men, who have the highest rates of HIV in the United States. The results: HIV was detected in 2.4 percent of the people who were living below the federal poverty line, which in 2007 was an annual income of roughly $10,000 or less for an individual. The 2.4 percent translates to roughly 1 in 42 people. In contrast, infections were found in 1.2 percent of people in the same neighborhoods who made more money than the federal poverty guideline. That’s 1 in 83 people.
Interestingly, the data might be uniquely American: “Health officials have long believed poverty drives HIV epidemics, but there have been few studies to back that up. Some research actually contradicts that belief: Studies in Tanzania, Kenya and some other African countries actually found that wealthy people were more likely to be infected than the poor.”
Yet Another
It makes far more sense than just assuming some races are more risk/infection prone.
It’s just so much easier to judge by the first thing you see, like someone’s skin color, than to look deeper, especially if deeper includes socioeconomic status or issues of “privilege.”
Phil
Now, I don’t want to be the one to race-bait here, but historically race has been a huge indicator of privilege. White males have always had more access to education, wealth and opportunity. Insinuating that “deeper” means farther away from race is being willfully ignorant of a problem. Yes, race is a sensitive issue and often has no place in a serious discussion, but by that same token it DOES have a place in discussion where it is an important factor. And poverty, and apparently HIV infection rates, is one of those topics.
B
No. 2 · Phil wrote, “Now, I don’t want to be the one to race-bait here, but historically race has been a huge indicator of privilege.” …. more precisely there are correlations between race an economic status, which is why you need to use things like multivariate statistics to determine which of several factors are the important ones.
adman
Yesterdays rent party has become todays single mom/whore with two kids making the nut by chasing tricks. The best way to be a ‘ho is of course to supply plenty of party favors, thus any ‘ol bag can become a desirable item (and make a cut on shitty dope deals), despite snotty nosed brats in the back seat of the Buick. Hilarity ensues, they trade needles, and there you go.
The above scenario holds true for “urban” minority hos as well as white trash/latino “rural” hos. Hos are Hos, don’t you people know any breeders? Sherri Shepard may have an opinion, but I guarantee to turn the bitch in two nights working “for her” behind the breeder bar where I made my money for school. Never underestimate an ice cold-blooded queer servant/bartender, ’cause that gay karma may have you begging for favors later, you know?
Would you breeder gals still like to have a bachelorette party in my “Gay Bar”? There is more than one way to skin a pussy folks, but what do I know, I’m just some faggot, huh?
adman
@adman: Oh Queerty, there you go trying to “moderate” this site, lol. Really? this place? To save you some trouble, my comments are detractions from the convo, snarky, sometimes plain mean, and probably spam also. Did I leave anything out? Take a good long look in the mirror, and say “I am the moderator at Queerty” three times slowly. There, did that sink in? Ah to be a young piece of fluff again, enjoy it while it lasts, little sisters. 😛
Jeffree
@Adman: #4:
Once your posts sink into the world of “mooderation” —for any reason—it can take weeks for them to be posted. If ever.
Meanwhile, multiple posts from spammalicious trollls pass through un-encumbered.
Makes ya wonder who is minding the keys to the boards, dont it?
james_from_the_great_city_of_cambridge
@adman: Adman, the moderation is automatic. Their filter picks up certain words. If you type in p e n i s, for example, your post is not going to be posted. Asshole, fuck, cunt…all those words are ok though. The filter is a little fucked up, LOL. So the fun is figuring out which words aside from p e n i s sets it off….
adman
@james_from_the_great_city_of_cambridge: Ahh, so it’s probably the automobile brand I typed that set it off not my gutter logic? Cool..:-)
ewe
Clinton should not be the face of this conference or conversation. He is like Mother Theresa who cleaned up the poor only to die. She took all the dontated monies to open up a hospice for the poor. They had no other choice like medical treatment to get well or opportunity to excel. Clinton offers the same sentiment toward AIDS. All talk. Little progress.