It has been found that the number of cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS/AIDS) due to sexual contact between homosexuality in Korea is increasing.

More than half of newly reported HIV infections have been infected with same-sex sexual contact, the first to surpass heterosexual sex-borne infection, based on cases that were confirmed to have been infected with sexual contact last year.

According to the medical industry and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a total of 1,222 HIV-infected and AIDS patients were reported to the health authorities in 2019 (1,500 Koreans and 217 foreigners).

This is an increase of 16 people (1.3%) from the previous year, the largest since the government count in 1985.

In terms of gender, there were 1,111 males (90.9%) and 111 females (9.1%).

By age, 438 persons in their 20s (35.8%), 341 persons in their 30s (27.9%), 202 persons in their 40s (16.5%), and 129 persons in their 50s (10.6%), 63.7% in their 20s and 30s Occupied.

In particular, when looking at the infection route based on the response of 1,500 new infected Koreans, it was found that 821 (81.7%) were infected with the virus through sexual contact.

Among them, 53.8% (442 people) had same sex sexual intercourse, and 46.2% (379 people) had heterosexual sexual intercourse.

This is the first time that a sexually transmitted infection in the same sex has surpassed a heterosexual infection in Korea.

In Korea, it has been the norm that heterosexual sexual infections are more common than heterosexual sexual infections.

In fact, according to the'HIV/AIDS Report Status Annual Report' released annually by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the ratio of heterosexual sexual contact infection was higher than that of homosexual sexual infection.

In 2016, 1,62 new Koreans were infected, of which 712 were infected by sexual contact, with 54.3% (387) of heterosexual sexual intercourse, more than 45.6% (325) of same sex.

It was the same in 2017.

Among Koreans with HIV/AIDS new infections (1,9) reported during 2017, 752 respondents who responded to epidemiological surveys of infection paths said they were infected by sexual contact, and 52% (394) of heterosexuals, 48% of same sex There were more than (358).

In 2018, the results of the investigation of the infection route based on their own responses among new Korean infected persons (989 persons).

It was reported that 799 people were infected by sexual contact, out of which 53.2% of heterosexual sexual contacts outpace 46.8% of same-sex sexual contact.

HIV is the AIDS-causing virus that survives and multiplies in the human body and spreads from person to person through the blood or body fluids of the infected person.

Not everyone who has HIV has AIDS.

AIDS patients are among those infected with HIV, whose immune system has been compromised, deteriorated, or has developed a disease such as cancer during infection.

In short, AIDS patients are people who have suffered from severe immunodeficiency after HIV infection.

Eating a bowl of food with an HIV-infected person does not cause HIV.

This is because HIV in food cannot survive because it cannot survive.

Of course, you won't get HIV if you join hands or exercise with an HIV-infected person.

Body fluids (sweat), which can be exchanged for daily physical contact, contain very little virus, so even if they get into the other person's body, they cannot cause HIV infection.

HIV can only get infected if it enters the other person's body through sexual intercourse, wounds, or mucous membranes.

People infected with HIV do not get HIV through mosquitoes or insects.