HIV Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men (CDC.gov fact sheet about "MSM")

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/gender/msm/facts/index.html ^ | September 26, 2013 | cdc

[GOPsterinMA]

Gay. Just...gay.

[NFHale]

It is what it is brother...

Used to be doctors saw it as a mental illness...

Most normal people (like, the majority of the world) still do.

[GOPsterinMA]

“Used to be doctors saw it as a mental illness...”

Yep. Probably half of them were twinks, too. So they changed the “rules”...

[NFHale]

Changing the rules doesn’t make it normal.

It never was, and it never will be.

[GOPsterinMA]

Oh, I totally agree, brother.

They’re so obstinate that when faced with a sure-death, but PREVENTABLE plague, they CHOOSE the plague.

[GOPsterinMA]

And the Herpes that’s out there is thru the roof.

[daniel1212]

More info:

The lifetime treatment cost of an HIV infection can be used as a conservative threshold value for the cost of averting one infection. Currently, the lifetime treatment cost of an HIV infection is estimated at $379,668 (in 2010 dollars), -http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/prevention/ongoing/costeffectiveness/

Average cost of Healthcare in the United States (all): $5,615 http://www.statisticbrain.com/health-insurance-cost-statistics/

[Impy]

Some say almost everyone has herpes and some people just never show symptoms.

[GOPsterinMA]

The sex Herpes? God, I hope NOT!

[daniel1212]

What would the reaction be if Christians engaging in a consensual practice (the Lord’s supper) accounted for 79% of 38,825 estimated HIV diagnoses among all males aged 13 years and older.

At a lifetime treatment cost of $379,668 (in 2010 dollars).

[GOPsterinMA]

No doubt that the Christians would be singled out to be exterminated, ASAP.

[Impy]

Oral not genital. Maybe whoever told me that was full if it.

According to wikipedia there are 2 viruses, HSV-1 and HSV-2. 2 mostly causes the genital kind as opposed to oral but both can cause either and HSV-1 genital infections are increasing.

I don’t know, I’m not a doctor.

[GOPsterinMA]

“Oral not genital.”

That’s accurate.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Wonder how much this bit of intelligence cost us?

[RobinOfKingston]

So just like 30 years ago, without queer sex HIV diminishes toward zero.

[little jeremiah]

I really should start pinging again.

[Gene Eric]

>> I really should start pinging again.

Please. You’ve been noticeably absent!

Hope all is well, lj.

[daniel1212]

Or suffer extreme preventive measures (maybe even ankle bracelets) and separation from children. And GI health care denied on the basis of the 1st amendment.

[GOPsterinMA]

Sure.