A new report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention continues to show that gay men are disproportionately afflicted by HIV/Aids.

The CDC’s report, out yesterday, finds that men who have sex with men (MSM) are over 44 times more likely to contract HIV than other men, and 46 times more likely to contract syphilis than other men.

"The CDC's newly released statistics highlight how HIV continues to disproportionately affect gay men more than any other group in the U.S.," Marjorie Hill, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, said in a statement. "Greater prevention efforts targeted toward this population are clearly needed. We commend President Obama for proposing a new $28 million initiative in his Fiscal Year 2011 budget to expand innovative HIV prevention with gay and bisexual men. It is time the CDC match the trends of the epidemic.”

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