Role of Gay Men in Spreading AIDS Virus Is Ignored in Africa

While most transmission of the virus in Africa is heterosexual, 19 recent studies of African men who have sex with men show that they have “considerably higher” infection rates than other adult men in their respective countries, said the authors, who were from Oxford University and research institutions in Ghana and Kenya. African male sexual networks overlap with male-female ones, the authors found, since many of the men also report recent sex with women or are married. NY Times