Stimulating Question

[nervousone65]

In Georgia it shows, 77% of HIV cases among females(mostly black) are through heterosexual contact. Male-to-Male(mostly black) sexual contact, accounts for 72% of HIV cases. That leaves 11.5% for heterosexual male HIV transmission. That would mean that a handful of straight males or going around having sex with a lot of woman, which cant I picture.

Now as for the 11.5% HIV positive heterosexual males. As we know, some men are "die hard" closet gay, and will take the secret to their grave. Wouldn't you say that its very likely, when given a risk assessment that these "alleged" heterosexual males when tested positive, lied about having any sexual contact with men? I am not saying heterosexual males dont get HIV, Im saying that when people lie, they dont stop lying, well some.

[HowardH]

Mostly true. However, there are at least a few "straight males or going around having sex with a lot of woman". Probably most of them don't know thay have HIV. The other aspect of higher rates of HIV in heterosexual African Americans is related to high rates of incarceration, in turn from opportunistic sex with other men (among men who otherwise only are heterosexual) and from injection drug use -- which is rampant in some prisons.

Paragraph 2 is exactly right.

When the HIV expert forum was active, one of docs (Hansfield I think) had a couple of great comments about why heterosexual HIV was so much more common in AAs than whites. Try searching that forum for "African American".