New Strain of HIV

Authorities in NYC are reporting a new strain of HIV that can develop into full-blown AIDS in a few months:

``We've identified this strain of HIV that is difficult or impossible to treat and which appears to progress rapidly to AIDS,'' said New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden.
Frieden said the case, diagnosed in a man in his mid-40s who reported multiple male sex partners and unprotected anal sex -- often while using the drug crystal methamphetamine -- was ``extremely concerning and a wake-up call.''
Antonio Urbina, medical director of HIV education and training at St. Vincent's Catholic Medical Center, site one of Manhattan's largest AIDS clinics, said at a news conference that the patient's use of crystal methamphetamine shows that the drug ``continues to play a significant role in facilitating the transmission of HIV.''
The drug reduces peoples' inhibitions and their likelihood of using condoms or other forms of safe sex, he said.

Why are we not hearing about this more? This is a fully preventable disease that can be stopped by condom use, abstinence or to a lesser extent monogamy. Is the liberal press so afraid of GLAAD and other homosexual interest groups that they will not put the blame where it truly belongs: with people having unprotected sex?

We have to get back to the mentality of the late eighties and early nineties of warning people to protect themselves and their unknowing partners, especially in the homosexual community where HIV transmission is more prevalent.