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Comment author: ShardPhoenix 19 August 2014 08:44:17AM *  11 points [-]

HIV

Prevalence: Between 13 - 28%. My guess is about 13%.

Wow. That's at least an order of magnitude higher than I would have guessed. I even thought you might have accidentally omitted a decimal point at first.

Comment author: V_V 19 August 2014 08:34:29PM *  9 points [-]

I had the same thought.

Indeed the prevalence in the general US population is 50x smaller: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/statistics/basics/
I knew that MSM were a high risk group, but I didn't realize the risk was that high.

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