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Barebacking Trend—Infections Rise Virgin Islands are Stressed Over Legalization of Gay Sex Youths Under 18 Can't Join Groups, Says European Court |
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By Rex Wockner
International Report Canadian Males Join Barebacking Trend—Infections Rise
The number of new HIV infections among men who have sex with men jumped by over 30 percent from 1996 to 1999, Health Canada says. Before 1996, there had been a steady drop in new HIV infections among gay men. "Part of it is the optimism about the new treatments and people just thinking it's not such a worry anymore. And part is I think some fatigue about always practicing safe sex," Chris Archibald, Health Canada's chief of HIV/AIDS epidemiology and surveillance, told the Canadian Press wire service. "Lastly, I think, perhaps the younger groups of gay men haven't seen the death rates and high infection rates that the older gay men have seen and just don't think it's such a problem," he said. Virgin Islands are Stressed Over Legalization of Gay Sex
Youths Under 18 Can't Join Groups Says European Court The European Court of Human Rights has let stand a Hungarian Constitutional Court decision that bans gay organizations which do not restrict membership to persons over 18. The court said the ban could reasonably be regarded as necessary in a democratic society for protection of morals. Helmut Graupner of Vienna's Lambda Rechtskomitee said, "The decision is not only deplorable at its core -- LGB youth groups can now be banned by law -- but also is bad news for the four age-of-consent cases currently pending before the Court, one from the UK and three from Austria." The European Court of Human Rights is the court of final appeal for citizens of the 41 nations that make up the Council of Europe, which was founded following World War II to strengthen democracy, human rights and the rule of law. |
Canadian gay men apparently are having more unsafe sex.
