England fans urged to have HIV test

Football fans who had unprotected sex while inshoes South Africa during the recent World Cup should get tested for HIV, a city hospital consultant has said. Of those who catch the virus, around two thirds of men and a quarter of women do so through having sex on holiday - as many as 25,000 England fans went to South Africa, where around six million people have HIV. Birmingham’s Heartlands Hospital hascheap shoes launched Beer Goggles Johnny’s Guide To Sexual Health to encourage anyone who had unprotected sex in South Africa to visit their local sexual health clinic. Almost one in five young adults who live in the African nation have HIV and some areas have an infection ratio of one in three. Sexual health and HIV consultant Dr Steve Taylor said: wholesale shoes“During the festivities if holidaymakers had unprotected sex it is more important than ever to get themselves checked out on their return. Although the public are more aware of the dangers of unsafe sex these days, we are not seeing people putting this into practice, which is worrying. “We want holidaymakers to take precautions, pack condoms in their suitcase and attend sexual health screenings on their return if they are unsure.” In US cities, HIV linked more to cheap nike shoespoverty than race Poverty is perhaps the most important factor in whether inner-city heterosexuals are infected with the AIDS virus, according to the first government study of its kind. The study, released Monday, suggests that HIV is epidemic in certain poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods. And, more significantly, poor heterosexuals in those neighborhoods were twice as likely to be infected as heterosexuals who lived in the same community but had more money. Federal scientists found that race was not air jordana factor — there were no significant differences between blacks, whites or Hispanics. Health officials have long believed poverty drives HIV epidemics, but there have been few studies to back that up. Some research actually contradicts that belief: Studies in Tanzania, Kenya and some other African countries actually found that wealthy people were more likely to be infected than the poor. "In the United States, we haven't have a history ofair jordan shoes looking in depth at the association between poverty and HIV," said Dr. Jonathan Mermin, director of HIV/AIDS Prevention for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mermin oversees the CDC team that did the new study. More often, studies have focused on the race of HIV patients, their sexual orientation, or whether or not they use intravenous drugs. The CDC report was released atAir Max the international AIDS conference in Vienna. The study involved a survey in 2006 and 2007 of 9,000 heterosexual adults, ages 18 to 50. They answered questions on a computer about their income, condom use and other details and were given HIV tests. The research was done in high-poverty neighborhoods in Air Max shoes23 U.S. cities. It focused on heterosexuals who don't use intravenous drugs; that group accounts for about 28 percent of Americans living with HIV. It did not involve gay or bisexual men, who have the highest rates of HIV in the United States. The results: HIV was detected in 2.4 percent ofNike Shox Shoes the people who were living below the federal poverty line, which in 2007 was an annual income of roughly $10,000 or less for an individual. The 2.4 percent translates to roughly 1 in 42 people. In contrast, infections were found in 1.2 percent of people in the same neighborhoods who made more money than the federal poverty guideline. That's 1 inair shox 83 people. Both rates were higher than the national average, which is 0.45 percent, or 1 in 222 people.Nike jordan 9 Nike jordan 10 Nike jordan 11 Nike jordan 12 Nike jordan 13