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There's a new drug out in the last few days that can prevent many cases of HIV (at least that's how the very probably lying drug developer hypes it).
And it's only $13K/year.
Public Health
HIV Continues to Spread Among Gay Men, Studies Show
Even in countries that have made great gains in reducing the burden of AIDS, the epidemic is still growing among gay men
By Alice Park
As the world’s leading AIDS researchers gather for the International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., scientists report that despite gains in controlling the spread of HIV, the disease has continued to spread at an alarming rate in the very population in which it first appeared — gay men.
In a series of papers in the Lancet dedicated to the dynamics of HIV among gay men — a group epidemiologists define as men who have sex with men (MSM) — scientists say that the continued burden of AIDS in this group is due to a combination of lifestyle and biological factors that put these men at higher risk. Rates are rising in all countries around the world.
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In one study, led by Chris Beyrer, of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, researchers analyzed surveillance reports and studies of HIV among MSM, including data that were part of routine United Nations reporting from member nations. Rates of HIV among gay men ranged from 3% in the Middle East to 25% in the Caribbean. In all reporting nations, rates were on the rise, even in developed nations like the U.S., Australia and the U.K. where HIV is declining overall.
In fact, says Beyrer, income does not seem to matter when it comes to HIV trends among MSM. In the U.S., for example, infection rates among gay men have been increasing by 8% each year since 2001, contributing to a 15% prevalence rate and putting the U.S. on par with countries like Thailand, Malaysia and some African and Caribbean nations where neither awareness of HIV/AIDS nor drug treatments are as widespread. HIV prevalence rates among MSM in Brazil, Canada, Italy and India range between 11% and 15%, while many western European countries have lower rates of around 6%.
Public health experts have been concerned about the rising rates among MSM for years now, viewing the current epidemic as the second wave — the first having occurred in the 1980s. Today’s infections, they say, are affecting a new generation of men who didn’t live through the initial devastation of AIDS’s early days, when there were no drug treatments and a diagnosis was a death sentence. Public health messages about safe sex practices and testing targeted to gay men have waned in the intervening years, and now, some experts say, a new generation of at-risk men have to be educated about the disease.
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HIV has always been more common among gay men, but Beyrer and his colleagues say the traditional risk factors may not entirely explain the surge in many cases. Traditionally, HIV experts have pointed to high-risk behaviors such as unprotected sex, having multiple partners, injection drug use and drug use in general for making gay men more vulnerable to infection. But there may be biological reasons for the enhanced risk as well. For example, there is an 18 times greater risk of HIV transmission through anal sex than through vaginal sex, which may explain why the virus continues to thrive in gay men, despite the fact that they still receive the bulk of HIV awareness and treatment public-health messages. “If HIV infection in MSM is heavily biologically determined, do present approaches to HIV programming for MSM, which rely heavily on information, education and behavior change strategies, make sense?” the authors write. “The epidemiology suggests that urgent reform is needed.”
That’s why the latest data on using HIV treatments to protect healthy people from infection, a strategy known as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), are of particular interest to public health experts. In another paper in the Lancet series, researchers estimate that about 25% of new infections among MSM might be avoided if prevention practices such as PrEP could be combined with existing strategies, such as safe sex counseling and condom use.
But the key to making these efforts work is in bringing the health care community on board. In another paper in the series, researchers do ent the fact that many health care providers aren’t trained or equipped to screen, treat or advise gay men about their HIV risk. In some countries, stigma about HIV continues to thwart physicians’ ability to provide adequate care to MSM at risk of infection. “Optimum clinical care for sexual and gender minorities is a fundamental human right, and the support of health care professionals is needed for its provision,” write the authors.
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The series highlights both how far we have come in understanding and controlling HIV, and how, despite advances in drug therapy and social awareness, we’re still allowing HIV to get the best of us.
http://healthland.time.com/2012/07/2...w/?hpt=hp_bn16
There's a new drug out in the last few days that can prevent many cases of HIV (at least that's how the very probably lying drug developer hypes it).
And it's only $13K/year.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 07-21-2012 at 11:33 AM.
punishment for sinning imo
And now that Obama wants to legalize gay marriage, expect even more of a rise in STD's. They are going to have to start selling STD, over the counter tests at Walgreens/Wal-Mart because it seems like a lot more people will get infected.
If you don't sexual men, what's your concern?
I think it's natures way of saying that it's not biologically right to screw your fellow man in the rectum. I've said it before that anal sex destroys a lot of the elasticity of your rectal muscles. It damages the nerves inside due to all the friction caused by the penis. Even worse if the gay dude is hung. And not to mention your prostate getting ed by some dudes semen. Everybody knows the prostate gland is the one of the most sensitive glands in the male anatomy. Even worse that's very prone to infection and cancer if you mess around with it by constantly touching it. If it was a natural act, Doctors wouldn't advice gay men to use condoms when they have sex.
bisexual men ing females and passing it to them
"natures way of saying that it's not biologically right to screw your fellow man in the rectum"
IIRC, HIV was traced back to Africans eating diseased monkeys, not screwing monkeys.
What's the rate of infection on bisexual men? Don't see it on the OP, tbh
Also, if you're ing skank, you know better than not use rubber too...
That they spread it to other people. Gays not only sleep with other gay men, they also give it to women, which in turn give it to straight men. I'm concerned that our taxes might go even higher because there will be more people with HIV that can't afford the high medical expenses, thus putting more of a burden on medicaid. I'm already sick and tired of paying for the welfare of single mothers who have a load of kids. I don't even have kids, but I support a great deal of them due to all the freakin taxes they take out of my check.
Is Cirrhosis nature's way of saying people shouldn't drink?
What drug are you talking about?
that new drug in the media they keep talking about saying it can "lower the risk of spreading infection to your partner."
why anyone would knowingly be ing anyone with HIV is beyond me. and the people who are ing someone with HIV without knowing it aren't likely to randomly go out and get something expensive that they don't know they need.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...462542284.html
I haven't been keeping up with the media lately tbh...other than the Aurora shooting of course.
I think you all are talking about Truvada. I don't know much about it but I'll probably read up on it a bit right now.
cirrhosis happens when you drink more than you should. Maybe gay men should quit sexual intimacy altogether, and should just stick to a platonic relationship with other men that only involves hugs and kisses.Is Cirrhosis nature's way of saying people shouldn't drink?
That's a terrible strawmen you built there. Is HIV on the rise on straight men?
How many single mothers do you support through your individual taxes?
More importantly, what's your solution? Do we kill all gay man and install eugenics, a la Wild Cobra?
If you're sick and tired of the good ol' USA, then leave for bigot paradise, wherever that might be, and live a happy life there. Nobody is forcing you to stay here.
The rising costs of health care that we tax payers will pay more of.
People , and that's nature. Maybe you need to make a point that's grounded in reality.
How much more are we going to pay, counselor?
Anything more is more. Please don't tell me you only believe something if a number is attached.
Anyways, gotta go... please carry on with the ignoramus fear mongering
crofl crofl "what's the big deal?" "how much more are we going to pay?"
sup chump, nice rhetorical devices you got there
no worries, we'll just charge it all to the national credit card! a few illegals? oh that only costs a little. oh a couple wars? etc
you liberal bas s want to destroy this country but get ready for a fight, me and others are going to give you everything we got. i'm loaded for bear and i'm in pissed. i won't rest until we get this turned around, even if i have to jump into politics myself.
It is on rise in straight women and men.
My solution is better education in public schools on human sexuality and consequences of it.
My family founded San Antonio and built the muh in Alamo. We've been living here since the 1600's. I have coahuiltecan/Lipan Apache blood running through my veins(although minimal). I have more of a right to be here than you do.
that's the thinking of these new age immigrants. they come here, get hooked up usually with en lements, and join the left. then they have the audacity to tell the natives, "if you don't like the new america, then leave!"
bull , this is OUR ing country. we do not want your new liberal utopia, piss off.
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