HIV/AIDS
MRSA Spike Among Gay Men: 'Comprehensive Public Health Approach Needed,' Says AHF
Published in Healthcare Finance, Tax and Law Weekly, January 30th, 2008
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), today expressed concern over a recent study first reported publicly today in an 'Annals of Internal Medicine' article which found that sexually active gay men in San Francisco were 13 times as likely to contract methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a drug-resistant strain of bacteria, than their heterosexual counterparts. On the heels of recent increases in both HIV infections and syphilis among men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM), AHF believes a multi-pronged public health approach to the prevention of infectious diseases and STDs targeting this and other at-risk populations must be undertaken. AHF also believes that it is crucial that such an...
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