Gay men make up 2% of population, 67% of new HIV cases, CDC says

(CNSNews.com) – Although gay men, or men who have sex with men (MSM), make up about 2 percent of the U.S. population, they account for 67 percent of "all new HIV diagnoses," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In addition, there are about 1.2 million people in the United States with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and an estimated 647,700 (54 percent) of those people are gay, or MSM.