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https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/library/reports/surveillance/cdc-hiv-surveillance-special-report-number-27.pdf

- Gay and bisexual men account for nearly half of the primary and secondary syphilis infections.
- Black people have STD rates between five to eight times higher than white people, while amongst Hispanics the figure was double that of white people.
- More than four out of 10 “women” who identify as transgender and live in big cities have contracted HIV.
- Two thirds of black “women” who identify as transgender, and over a third of Hispanic transgenders also have HIV.
- The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey found that 40% of transgender people attempted suicide in their lifetime and 7% attempted suicide in the past year
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