New study reveals shock HIV statistic for gay men in Africa
POSTED: Sun 14 February 2010
A recent study in the medical journal The Lancet has warned that HIV rates among gay men in some parts of Africa are ten times higher than their straight counterparts.
The UN agency UNAids estimates that two-thirds of the 33 million people worldwide who have HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa.
Figures released from the agency last year show that since the signing of the United Nations Declaration of Commitment on HIV/Aids, the number of new infections in sub-Saharan Africa is approximately 15 per cent lower.
