Disturbing trend. - Terry Weber reports for the Globe and Mail:
Teenagers with HIV are engaging in riskier sex with more partners than their counterparts before the advent of powerful new treatments for the AIDS virus, a new U.S. report suggests.
The study, conducted by researchers at the UCLA AIDS Institute, surveyed the habits to two groups of teenagers during two periods, one before the introduction of highly-active, antiretroviral therapies – so-called AIDS drug “cocktails” – and the other after.
Weber writes that the study found that the teens in the group after the introduction of highly-active, antiretroviral therapies also showed more symptoms of the virus because it appeared they were being diagnosed later and that they were having almost twice as much unprotected sex with almost twice as many people.
So in this sex driven society, perhaps these children think drugs will solve what ails them and if not, why not take as many people with them as possible?
