The Salt Lake Tribune
Friday, December 5, 2008
Bad disease, great party
The annual Red Party at Hotel Monaco to raise funds for Utah AIDS Foundation and World AIDS Day included a really amazing pole dancer, living statues and aphrodisiac snacks in a user-friendly approach to increasing AIDS/HIV awareness in a younger generation.

It got my attention, anyway.

As reported in The Salt Lake Tribune, who some say is the official organ of the gay community, reported, the University of Utah's HIV clinic is seeing a resurgence in the disease among people in their late teens and early 20s. Stan Penfold, director of the Utah AIDS Foundation, says the newest generation doesn't remember the AIDS devastation in the 1980s:
The average age is dropping for a lot of factors, but I think there’s a sense that HIV is not an issue anymore. [They think:] It’s not a problem, not a lot of people have it, there might be a cure. It’s the same misconception because [HIV/AIDS] is not talked about very much any more.

3 Comments:

At December 5, 2008 1:56 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Southpark already addressed this issue:

http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/163542/

 
At December 8, 2008 4:29 AM , Blogger Shauna and Robert Valentine Family said...

Anal intercourse, sodomy or buggering (as the Brits call it) is a serious threat to the health of mankind. The homosexual, bisexual, transgender community has been very successful in turning a health issue into a civil rights issue. For more reliable statistics on the effects of anal intercourse, go to the web site of the Center for Disease Control or cdc.gov and be amazed.

 
At December 8, 2008 9:21 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

The same could be said about vaginal sex... if you check the cdc data perhaps YOU will be amazed at knowing that it is not specific to those who practice anal intercourse, does that shock you? WHERE IS THE COMPASSION, KINDNESS AND HEART?!!

 

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