Wherever we went — on the Metro, on the streets of our neighborhood — men stopped and stared. In fact, Charlotte always had a handful of men waiting in the wings. In Charlotte’s native Cameroon, the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the adult population hovers around 5 percent — a far cry from the epidemics in Zimbabwe and Botswana, where almost a quarter of the adult population carries the virus. With the outcry over the spread of AIDS in Africa in recent years, many Americans have been lulled into believing that AIDS is a foreign, third-world phenomenon. As a matter of fact, a study at Temple University says men over 50 are increasingly atrisk for contracting HIV as their number of sexual partners increases with the use of erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra. Only 38 percent of men and 28 percent of women aged 35-44 used condoms during their first sexual encounter, versus 68 percent of men and 67 percent of women aged 16-19. read more
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