Posted on 04/06/2014 1:14:08 PM PDT by Olog-hai
It’s the Truvada conundrum: A drug hailed as a lifesaver for many people infected by HIV is at the heart of a rancorous debate among gay men, AIDS activists and health professionals over its potential for protecting uninfected men who engage in gay sex without using condoms.
Many doctors and activists see immense promise for such preventive use of Truvada, and are campaigning hard to raise awareness of it as a crucial step toward reducing new HIV infections, which now total about 50,000 a year in the U.S. Recent efforts range from think-tank forums and informational websites to a festive event at a New York City bar featuring popular drag queens.
Yet others—despite mounting evidence of Truvada’s effectiveness—say such efforts are reckless, tempting some condom users to abandon that layer of protection and exposing them to an array of other sexually transmitted infections aside from HIV. …
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If you engage in such activity, you will always get diseases. If new ones have to evolve, they will.
I say we give in to technology and eliminate eggs with the gay gene.
That 2% will be 0% in a generation.
(/frustration)
Which is the gay gene?
Sheesh - a grand a month to protect somebody from the consequences of doing what he shouldn't be in the first place and I pick up the tab? Lovely. Gimme that good old-fashioned socialized medicine...
Or you they could save money by keeping other mens genitals away from their rectums.
Rectum?
Yep, darn near killed ‘um.
Medical professionals who truly care about public health should be working to eradicate homosexual practices — not facilitate.
the filthy disease ridden queers get all the research money for a disease that is 99.999% avoidable but Hep-C doesn't even get .01% of that money FDRQ delenda est...
Well, wouldn’tcha know it. It ain’t the Bushes fault!
“Gonorrhea and syphilis are on the rise in the U.S., mostly in men who have sex with men, a trend the government said is linked to inadequate testing among people stymied by homophobia and limited access to health care.”
http://culturecampaign.blogspot.com/2014/01/homosexual-diseases-soar-feds-blame.html
Whaddaya mean, it ain’t Bush’s fault? Of course it’s Bush’s fault! Everything is Bush’s fault. (Dear Leader told us so ).
stigmatizing “bug chasing” somehow leads men to chase bugs. Who knew???
In other words, just add a few more chambers to the revolver's cylinder, but keep on playing Russian Roulette.
Further proof that homosexuality is a mental illness.
Since they don’t reproduce, there is no gay gene and never was....which is why it can’t be genetic, why their numbers don’t increase and why they are totally dependent on predatory acts.
You know it is really absurd! Who the heck is responsible for anything anymore? If I screw up it’s not my fault, it is your fault!!!
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