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| Gerald Hoff, a Kansas City Health Department epidemiologist, said a recent survey
of more than 1,000 gay men, lesbians and bisexuals in Missouri found most are
healthy but disproportionately engage in unhealthy habits like smoking and having
unprotected sex.
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also accounted for 46 percent of new AIDS cases
between 2000 and 2002. The report, which examined 17 Southern states and the
District of Columbia, was prepared by Michelle Scavnicky, community relations
director for the AIDS Institute, and Kim Williams, a researcher at the Centers
for Disease Control & Prevention. Scavnicky said a growing number of people
living in rural areas are being diagnosed with HIV and there are more new infections
among blacks and Hispanics.
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