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Contents:

• WHY ARE GAY MEN MORE AT RISK FOR HIV?
• HIV AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN THE U.S.
• THREE REASONS GAY GUYS ARE MORE LIKELY TO CONTRACT HIV
• WHY IS HIV MORE COMMON IN GAY MEN
• IS AIDS A “GAY” DISEASE?
• HIV NOW FECTS MORE HETEROSEXUAL PEOPLE THAN GAY OR BISEXUAL MEN – WE NEED A NEW STRATEGY
• WHY ARE GAY PEOPLE MORE LIKELY TO GET HIV
• WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HIV GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE THE U.S.
• HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• HIV AND AIN AMERIN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• DO ALL GAY PEOPLE HAVE AIDS?
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WHY ARE GAY MEN MORE AT RISK FOR HIV?

Sce the HIV epimic started the 1980s gay men have been at a greater risk and reprented more of the new HIV s that we’ve known this untry and actually ternatnally as well. It’s bee we live a high HIV prevalent society among gay men and then also bee some of the behavrs that we engage may put more at risk for HIV.

New HIV fectns cled among gay and bisexual men the last , but HIV ntu to disproportnately affect gay and bisexual men relative to other muni the U. Factors that fluence health out—cludg HIV-related stigma, homophobia, racism, discrimatn, poverty, limed accs to high-qualy health re, and other longstandg barriers—have ntributed to the unequal reach of HIV preventn and treatment; higher levels of HIV some muni; and ntued equi.

Wh effective preventn and treatment tools at our disposal, the natn has a s--the-makg opportuny to end the domtic HIV epimic and elimate dispari HIV preventn and re among gay and bisexual men and other populatns disproportnately affected by HIV. Combe this wh the fact that gay and bi guys have much more anal sex than straight guys, and you’ve got yourself a lot more risk right there.

HIV AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN THE U.S.

Rearchers analyzed data om 44 stat and found that the natnal rate of early stage syphilis gay and bisexual men was an timated 309 s per 100, 000. Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men reprent approximately 2% of the Uned Stat populatn, yet are the populatn most severely affected by HIV. In 2012, an abstract for a The Brazilian Journal of Infect Diseas articled entled Clil maniftatns of primary syphilis homosexual men dited, “At the begng of a new lennium, syphilis cince has been creasg worldwi, occurrg primarily among men who have sex wh men.

In the 20th century, the gay muny saw such watershed moments as the targetg of gay people by the psychiatric enterprise and the McCarthy era wch-hunts, the birth of gay liberatn, lbian femism, and queer culture, homosexualys and medilisatn, the legalisatn of gay marriage, and the overturng of bans on gay people servg the ary. For gay men and women born before 1930, whom I terviewed 1995 and who me of age an era of polil, medil, and scientific opprsn, the emergence of gay liberatn was the most signifint event shapg their experience of gay life. In 2017, the Center for Disease Rearch and Policy and the Universy of Mnota reported an article entled Shigella gay men growg more antibtic ristant:.

They claimed that should not be associated wh homosexualy any way, shape or form bee this allegedly led to the “stigmatizg and spegoatg” of homosexuals.

THREE REASONS GAY GUYS ARE MORE LIKELY TO CONTRACT HIV

But as evince piled up, the allegatn that homosexualy and HIV/AIDS were unrelated was no longer fensible, and those who nied the nnectn were creasgly perceived as disnnected om realy. However, Amerin urts have thlsly med the Constutn to illicly expand the right to privacy to clu abortn, fantici, thanasia, pornography ― and now, ersatz homosexual “marriage. Organized “gays” have blocked blood screeng for HIV, fought the closg of homosexual bathho, advoted for the legalizatn of both male and female prostutn, shut down ntact tracg and sexual partner notifitn, opposed crimalizg the liberate fectn of another person wh HIV-AIDS, and promoted the e of ndoms, which have a six to eight percent failure rate.

WHY IS HIV MORE COMMON IN GAY MEN

To show how out of touch the mastream media is wh realy, Newsweek Magaze, which has featured AIDS on s ver no fewer than twenty tim, laid the blame for the AIDS epimic at the feet of “homophobia and relig lears steeped moralistic doctre who have supprsed hont nversatn about how to stop .

IS AIDS A “GAY” DISEASE?

In perhaps the most extreme statement of self-excal, Harry Hay, founr of the first homophile anizatn the Uned Stat (the Mattache Society), acced nservativ of velopg and spreadg the AIDS vis.

HIV NOW FECTS MORE HETEROSEXUAL PEOPLE THAN GAY OR BISEXUAL MEN – WE NEED A NEW STRATEGY

All of this shows the power of the homosexual lobby as greedily gobbl up every penny n get s hands on for s very small percentage of the populatn, thereby privg lns of others of badly-need assistance.

WHY ARE GAY PEOPLE MORE LIKELY TO GET HIV

But still AIDS fundg climbs relentlsly, bee lawmakers know that if they vote agast any crease, the homophil will stantly brand them as “hate-filled bigots” and “homophob. [4] Acrdg to the Natnal Gay Task Force, screeng donated blood for HIV is “spegoatg” and “stigmatizg” [Journal of the Amerin Medil Associatn, Febary 4, 1983; New Dimensns Magaze, March 1990]. That medil breakthrough 1996 meant an HIV diagnosis was no longer a termal one, but rat among gay men remaed disproportnately high and stigma rife.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HIV GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE THE U.S.

Now, 49% of new diagnos England are among straight people (wh an almost even spl between men and women), pared wh 45% for gay and bisexual men. This mak the news of a higher number of HIV diagnos heterosexuals than gay men even more turnaround fortun cis wh three big chang for HIV the UK the past .

HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

For example, I have 100% nfince that I n’t pass on HIV to my hband, and he do targeted work focg on at-risk groups – cludg gay men, as well as those of black Ain herage and some the trans muny – is workg. This par wh jt 29% among gay and bisexual need to tt more people more often and more plac – regardls of genr, sexualy, ethnicy or anythg else.

HIV AND AIN AMERIN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

To ntextualise the size of the challenge, jt 4% of those on NHS England’s PrEP trial didn’t intify as a gay or bisexual also need to ensure that all healthre profsnals have a solid basele knowledge of HIV, which I know om personal experience is all too often not the se. For example, if someone is prentg wh symptoms of a promised immune system (such as thsh or ld sor), we need GPs to remend an HIV tt for a whe heterosexual grandmother jt as they might for a gay is a unique health challenge and remas one of the most stigmatised health ndns. Users who say this means heterosexual people are at higher risk than gay or bisexual men of ntractg the vis are ignorg the number of fectns as a proportn of the two groups of tweet reads, “Straight people are more at risk of HIV for a week and there’s already a cure” (here), while another says, “HIV now fects more heterosexual people than gay or bisexual men” (here) claims seem to be based on a UKHSA report (here), which shows that 2020 England, there were 940 HIV diagnos gay and bisexual men and 1, 010 heterosexual people.

The report, which acknowledg that COVID-19 changed the patterns of sexual behavr, HIV ttg, and accs to sexual health and HIV servic 2020, also shows how HIV diagnos have cled both a piece lookg at the data qutn (here), The Inpennt wrote, “While gay and bisexual men are still more impacted by HIV relative to populatn size, targeted terventns for the groups have led to a signifint crease transmissn. ”While is te that more heterosexual people were diagnosed wh HIV 2020 than gay and bisexual men the untry, this miss sential ntext about the number of diagnos as a proportn of the two populatns.

UK Government data that more heterosexual people were diagnosed wh HIV 2020 than gay and bisexual sex men do not mean the vis now affects straight people more.

DO ALL GAY PEOPLE HAVE AIDS?

In proportn to the populatn size of those who intify as gay or bisexual men, this group remas at elevated risk of ntractg the article was produced by the Rters Fact Check team. Epimlogil and clil rearch has shown that, as a group, gay black men are at a fundamental risk of HIV due to a number of obv and not-so-obv reasons.

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The fear of beg intified as homosexual ters many men om accsg HIV servic, avoidg healthre check-ups and treatment orr to keep their orientatn secret. Almost all of on this se live a certa society where the system is ntrolled and affected largely by relign, the same relign that nms each and every gay people, statg that they will go to hell for eternal damnatn and pa jt bee of whom they may like. To that end, the CDC survey of high school stunts also found that young gay and bisexual men are much more likely to report jectg illegal dgs and g dgs or alhol before their last sexual terurse enunter.

The mon, knee-jerk rponse might be to nclu, dispassnately, that sexual practic paired wh cultural attus and behavr are the sole factors that place gay black men at such profoundly high risk.

We saw this the early part of the AIDS epimic the 1980s, when gay men, jt emergg om an era of police abe and judicial apathy, were h by a wave of fectns wh no means to stop , There was nothg the way of gay health servic or advocy groups to bat actn on eher the state or feral level.