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CD had this to say about Goldrush Show Bar in Atlanta, Georgia

The National Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta at the recent National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta says that some 32 percent (that’s nearly one out of every three) of young black men in Atlanta between the ages 23-29 are testing positive for HIV, compared with 14 percent of Hispanic men and 7 percent of white men. This means that according these figures black men in the age group 23-29 are nearly four times more likely to have HIV/AIDS than white men. While these statistics are alarming something else is even more alarming. Many black men in Atlanta don’t want to know if they’re positive, many prefer to believe that they are invincible. So even though testing is available at no cost many of these young black men don’t or won’t get tested. The bad thing is that many of these men are serving as the "bridge" for spreading HIV to women. Another point that should be made is that many of these infected young men are not showing any obvious signs of the disease and are unknowingly passing on the virus to their partners.

Why should this be of interest: First several of the young men in this study contacted the virus through sexual contact in a strip club, specifically mentioning this club by name as the place where the contact took place. Second a large percentage of the people who go to this club and on whom the girls are performing are black or poor immigrant Latinos. Atlanta reportedly has the second highest growth rate for HIV, Hepatitis B, other STDs and TB (incidentally, TB is endemic in Mexico and other parts of Latin America) in the US. With figures such as these your chances of contracting an STD at this club have increased to one in three since more than half to three quarters of this club’s customers are black or Latino and many HIV carriers have other STDs and/or TB as well. Think about these figures the next time you’re thinking of going to the VIP room. If you live in Atlanta or are planning to visit you should log on to the CDC website for more information.