AIDS Courier (30/09)

Fake Aids drugs flood Zimbabwe black market || 17% of gay men here HIV-positive, new stats confirm

Fake Aids drugs flood Zimbabwe black market

Aids drugs - some of them contaminated, diluted or faked - are being sold at flea markets and hairdressing salons in the face of growing shortages in clinics linked to Zimbabwe’s economic crisis, the health ministry said. These fake drugs increase chances of one becoming resistant to treatment and it becomes even more expensive for that person to remain on treatment.

17% of gay men here HIV-positive, new stats confirm

About 17 percent of gay men in Chicago are HIV-positive — and half of them don’t know it. That’s according to authoritative new estimates from the Chicago Public Health Department. And black men who have sex with men have double the HIV infection rates of white and Hispanic men, even though they don’t appear to engage in riskier behavior, Chicago health officials said Friday.