At the 18th International AIDS conference in Vienna, activists want to draw atte

(9) As the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to spread, new research shows it’s taking an increasing toll on menhaving-sex-with-men or MSM. The issue was addressed at the 18th International AIDS conference in Vienna, with calls for greater funding and human rights efforts.
    Activists say men having sex with men have been hit hard by the epidemic, but have not received nearly as much attention or resources as many other groups. They’re hoping scientific data on the effects of HIV on MSM—released at the conference—will change that.
    Shivananda Khan of India is with Naz Foundation International, which provides technical and development assistance to MSM groups in South Asia. (10)Khan says data from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health comes none too soon.
(10) "We’ve been waiting a long time for this data. I’ve been engaged in this area for 20 years and this is the first time I’m hearing this sort of data when from a day-to-day perspective we watch people every day for the last 20 years, getting infected and dying from HIV," he says.