HIV Prevalence in Cities

I was surfing around the web, and stumbled upon this article:

HIV Still Plagues the US

I had no idea that 1 in 30 adults in Washington, DC had HIV, or that 1 in 10 sexually active homosexual or bisexual men in New York have it. These statistics are alarming (and I guess that depends on the % error and the exaggeration of the report in Newsweek).

For some reason, there still seems to be a connection between major US cities (particularly the east coast) and HIV Prevalence. I believe that this is the time to refer back to my last post and think about the sexual education system in the US. I did not have sex ed in high school - my teacher was Catholic, and he decided that it wasn't that important. Currently, there are two or three pregnancies at MHS (which is a lot for such a small school).

Inner-city kids have it worse. The public education system finds it unnecessary to teach teenagers the risks of having unprotected sex. Then they resort to telling them that abstinence is the only way, and nothing else works (which is all lies, as you should know). But the worst thing about being an inner-city kid (Particularly in New York) is that since HIV is just so prevalent. And since the teens aren't given proper resources or information, many of them will become infected.

It's a scary thought, but it does happen.

Of the drawbacks of living in an urban area, this may be at the top of the list, depending on how you view the "controversial" topic of sex.