HIV Continues to Spread Among Gay Men, Studies Show

[slipnslide]

This research isn't good news at all. Are there really people who don't know the risks?



Public health experts have been concerned about the rising rates among MSM for years now, viewing the current epidemic as the second wave

http://healthland.time.com/2012/07/20/hiv-continues-to-spread-among-gay-men-studies-show/

[JP1986UM]

Take home message kids: don't have sex with someone who's HIV+

ask for test results. Read them yourself, or walk.

[Tocowboycub]

Learn the facts before you make assinign statements. If a man is HIV+ and on meds, the chance of passing on the virus through unsafe sex is about the same as getting hit my lightening. If he wears a condom, the chance is zero.

The problem is with so many men who don't get tested and think they are fine and have unsafe sex. The other huge problem is that HIV is not talked about enough, a recent study in high schools in Toronto, Canada discovered that 4 out of 10 grade 9 students think there is a cure.

I work in the HIV Education field, and face this kind of stigma and ignorance every fucking day!!!

[i_shoot_blanks]

Take home message kids: don't have sex with someone who's HIV+

ask for test results. Read them yourself, or walk.

Reading someone's test results from last week or last month or last year may be comforting, but all the results are telling you is that the person was disease free at that time. It's entirely possible to have the blood test, stop off for a quicky on the way home and catch something.

[Tocowboycub]

Great point, blanks. The secret, my friends, is to assume everyone has something you don't want, and wear a condom, EVERY TIME for vaginal or anal sex, and no one will get HIV or any other STI.

[ExSailor]

Learn the facts before you make assinign statements. If a man is HIV+ and on meds, the chance of passing on the virus through unsafe sex is about the same as getting hit my lightening. If he wears a condom, the chance is zero. I work in the HIV Education field, and face this kind of stigma and ignorance every fucking day!!! Actually this is wrong, just because an HIV+ person is on medications that does not mean that it's OK to have unprotected sex or that an HIV- person can have unprotected sex with the poz person and the chances of getting infected with HIV are the "same as getting hit by by lightning". Even if someone is already HIV+ you can still get reinfected, get infected with another strain of HIV, or infect another HIV+ person with another strain of HIV and barebacking will mess up both of your medication regiments. Just because someone is on meds and is HIV undetectable that does not mean that infection is impossible or very rare. If you actually work at educating people about HIV and safer sex you'd know that being on HIV meds and being undetectable does not mean that it's OK to have sex without condoms; but then again even I know this but I've been poz for decades, practice safer sex, and my girlfriend is HIV neg.

[biguy71]

Having sex with someone with whom you aren't in a monogamous relationship without wearing a condom is not very smart. I feel sorry for the people who contracted HIV in the early days before it was known what was going on. If someone contracts it through sexual activity these days, it's almost defintely a result of their own carelessness. Hard to feel sorry for that.