“The new face of HIV”
According to CNN, a growing number of straight people over 50 are getting HIV.
"Women after menopause are not going to use condoms because they're not afraid of getting pregnant anymore. Viagra is spreading like chewing gum. Usually, medical providers don't even ask about their sexual life," said Monica Dea, a coordinator with the Center for AIDS Prevention and Studies at the University of California, San Francisco.
(Like chewing gum? How exactly does chewing gum spread?)
I'm not entirely sure what to make of this bit:
[The CDC reports] that the proportion of Americans over 50 with AIDS has risen steadily from 10 percent in the early 1990s to 13.4 percent in 1999. . . .
I'm thinking that was meant to say "the proportion of Americans with AIDS who are over 50"; that sounds a lot more plausible than the idea that one in seven Americans over 50 now have AIDS. Confusing phrasing.