{{cquote|As of December 31, 2003, almost 38,500 cases of AIDS had been reported in adolescents and young adults 13–24 years old in the United States of America. Previous studies demonstrating that the risk of AIDS increased with the age at infection suggest that a large proportion of people developing AIDS in their third decade of life became infected with HIV as teens.<ref>[http://www.adolescenthealth.org/PositionPaper_HIV_Infection_and_AIDS_in_Adolescents-update.pdf Position Paper: ''[[HIV]] infection and [[AIDS]] in adolescents: An update of the position of the Society for Adolescent Medicine''Journal of Adolescent Health 38 (2006) 88–91]</ref>}}
{{cquote|As of December 31, 2003, almost 38,500 cases of AIDS had been reported in adolescents and young adults 13–24 years old in the United States of America. Previous studies demonstrating that the risk of AIDS increased with the age at infection suggest that a large proportion of people developing AIDS in their third decade of life became infected with HIV as teens.<ref>[http://www.adolescenthealth.org/PositionPaper_HIV_Infection_and_AIDS_in_Adolescents-update.pdf Position Paper: ''[[HIV]] infection and [[AIDS]] in adolescents: An update of the position of the Society for Adolescent Medicine''Journal of Adolescent Health 38 (2006) 88–91]</ref>}}
===Medical Community Negligence and Government Negligence===
===Medical Community Negligence and Government Negligence===
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''For more information please see:'' [[Adolescent AIDS and Medical Community Negligence]]
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''For more information please see:'' [[Adolescent AIDS and Medical Community Negligence]] and [[Homosexuality and pederasty]]
In 2000, the medical journal ''AIDS (London, England)'' made the following embarrassing admission in respect to a 1998 review of the medical literature by medical researchers Mansergh and Marks:
In 2000, the medical journal ''AIDS (London, England)'' made the following embarrassing admission in respect to a 1998 review of the medical literature by medical researchers Mansergh and Marks: