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AIDS risk to expand greatly for Asian gays
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February 21, 2009, Saturday
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THE AIDS virus is spreading rapidly among gay and bisexual men in Asia as younger people shun condoms and authorities fail to increase awareness of the disease, health officials said yesterday.
The epidemic will worsen dramatically in coming years unless there is better education and stronger political will to combat the disease, warned Massimo Ghidinelli, the World Health Organization's regional adviser on HIV/AIDS. His comments came at a news conference after a seminar in Hong Kong at which regional AIDS experts discussed the growing trend.
Asia is believed to have the world's largest number of men who have sex with other men, with an estimate of 10 million, according to WHO.
While describing the figure as "extraordinarily high," Ghidinelli said it still appeared to be conservative because of the stigmatization of male-to-male sex.
WHO said fragmentary information from the region indicated a rapid spread of HIV among gay and bisexual men, but that full data weren't available. The seminar was called to strengthen efforts to study and address the problem, it said.
Ghidinelli said low condom use among younger men in male-to-male relationships was fueling the transmission of HIV. He said the AIDS experts agreed at the conference to set up a regional task force to collect information on male-to-male transmission and to strengthen measures to fight the disease.
The epidemic will worsen dramatically in coming years unless there is better education and stronger political will to combat the disease, warned Massimo Ghidinelli, the World Health Organization's regional adviser on HIV/AIDS. His comments came at a news conference after a seminar in Hong Kong at which regional AIDS experts discussed the growing trend.
Asia is believed to have the world's largest number of men who have sex with other men, with an estimate of 10 million, according to WHO.
While describing the figure as "extraordinarily high," Ghidinelli said it still appeared to be conservative because of the stigmatization of male-to-male sex.
WHO said fragmentary information from the region indicated a rapid spread of HIV among gay and bisexual men, but that full data weren't available. The seminar was called to strengthen efforts to study and address the problem, it said.
Ghidinelli said low condom use among younger men in male-to-male relationships was fueling the transmission of HIV. He said the AIDS experts agreed at the conference to set up a regional task force to collect information on male-to-male transmission and to strengthen measures to fight the disease.
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