Cluster Of HIV Cases Involves Hispanic Men In San Antonio

[TexasTowelie]

San Antonio physicians are being alerted about a rapidly growing cluster of new HIV cases. These infections are being monitored by the Centers for Disease Control.

Stigma about homosexuality and AIDS in the Hispanic community may be part of the problem.

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Texas, along with California and New York, has the highest number of new cases in the country. In Texas, young Hispanic patients have it particularly rough.

"You are stigmatized because you are a minority. You might be stigmatized because you’re gay. And then you’re stigmatized again because you’re living with HIV," observer infectious disease specialist Dr. Barbara Taylor of UT Health San Antonio.

Read more: http://tpr.org/post/cluster-hiv-cases-involves-hispanic-men-san-antonio

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Gee, that's awfully convenient if you are a immigrant hater.

[TexasTowelie]

2. It's also awfully convenient for those who hate people

with a different color of skin tone.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Exactly. Funny how this shit happens, can you say Southern California, 1980's

crack cocaine, African American neighborhoods, CIA?

[lunasun]

5. I didn't see anything that said these were Hispanics not born in the US?

[TEB]

4. Think how further along we could have been

If we properly funded research over last three decades.