The review stressed that the risks were not limited to gays, as many MSM also have sex with women.
"In the early 1980s, silence equals death became a rallying cry" for gays in the United States, it said.
"Nearly three decades later in sub-Saharan African the silence remains, driven by cultural, religious, and political unwillingness to accept MSM as equal members of society."
Around 33 million people have HIV, according to figures issued in 2008 by the UN agency UNAIDS. Two-thirds of them live south of the Sahara.
Source-AFP
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