Crystal Meth Contributing to New HIV Cases

At the 20th. Annual Living with AIDS Conference in Utah, experts warn that the booming crystal meth problem is contributing to new HIV cases around the country. The growing cocaine problem in the late 80's helped fuel the HIV epidemic back then. Today experts believe it is methamphetamine that is contributing to the continuing HIV problem. Users of crystal meth engage in high risk unprotected sex with multiple partners. Often times those partners are anonymous and their HIV status is not known. What's more, because there is a higher meth rate among the minority population, they are at greater risk for HIV as well. Experts fear that because meth is so cheap that use could continue to rise and along with it the number of new HIV cases.

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