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One in eight gay men in London has HIV, official figures show
Dailymail, UK ^ | 19 November 2014 | By ANNA HODGEKISS FOR MAILONLINE

Posted on 11/21/2014 1:52:51 AM PST by granada

The number of people in the UK infected with HIV has reached an all-time high, new figures show.

Nearly 110,000 are living with the condition, but around a quarter are unaware they have it.

They are therefore at risk of passing on the virus to others through unprotected sex, experts warn. 

The figures, from Public Health England (PHE), have been released ahead of National HIV Testing Week.

They show that overall, more people are being diagnosed earlier. The proportion of people diagnosed with a late stage of HIV infection fell from 57 per cent in 2004 to 42 per cent in 2013.

Meanwhile, around six per cent of gay and bisexual men are now living with HIV.

This rises to 13 per cent in London - meaning that one in eight sexually active gay men now has the condition.

In 2013, 3,250 men were newly diagnosed - an all-time annual high. 

It is estimated that over 7,000 gay men have an HIV infection that remains undiagnosed and that an estimated 2,800 men acquired HIV in 2013.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: hiv; homo; london
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1 posted on 11/21/2014 1:52:52 AM PST by granada
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To: granada

Nuttin’ ta fear, M8. The mooselimb doctors and nurses will take care of them.


2 posted on 11/21/2014 2:15:08 AM PST by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation)
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To: Captainpaintball

Time to start taxing homosexual behavior like tobacco use.


3 posted on 11/21/2014 2:54:08 AM PST by fruser1
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To: granada

In a socialized medical system non-gays subsidize bug-chasers, the same way mailing a letter down the street pays for the one going up to an Alaskan outpost.

Gays OWE non-gays.


4 posted on 11/21/2014 3:09:19 AM PST by gaijin
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To: granada

For 30 years we’ve been sanctimoniously lectured about ‘homophobia’ as the biggest threat to gays. Turns out the biggest threat is really the gays themselves.


5 posted on 11/21/2014 3:42:24 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: granada

For 30 years we’ve been sanctimoniously lectured about ‘homophobia’ as the biggest threat to gays. Turns out the biggest threat is really the gays themselves.


6 posted on 11/21/2014 3:42:25 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: granada

How do you suppose one gay man gets into eight men? Counting all appendages I can only see where one in five or six gay men at most.

Am I misunderestimating something here?


7 posted on 11/21/2014 3:51:09 AM PST by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: granada
In a 2008 CDC study in 21 major cities in the US (MSM = "men who have sex with men"):
Among the 8,153 MSM tested, 1,562 (19%) tested positive for HIV (range by MSA: 6%--38%). HIV prevalence was 28% among blacks, 18% among Hispanics, and 16% among whites. HIV prevalence increased with increasing age and decreased with increasing education and income (Table 1).

8 posted on 11/21/2014 3:51:25 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: granada

Why is it what they do in the bedroom is nobody’s business but the diseases them come out with are everybody’s business?

For that matter if it is nobody’s business, why are people being forced to give approval and recognition and services to it?

For the U.S. population, we were sold a lie: Privacy issue. Then another lie: State’s rights. Now the federal judges are selling nothing. They’re FORCING, and if you don’t like it, tough. They’ll punish you and convert your children via the public school system.

As for AIDS in the U.S., hey it served them well. Diverted public funds helped market this nonsense to the public.


9 posted on 11/21/2014 4:21:49 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: granada

“gay” = Got Aids Yet?


10 posted on 11/21/2014 4:58:19 AM PST by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: urbanpovertylawcenter

According to report, in London, 13% male homos have HIV

13% = one in eight


11 posted on 11/21/2014 5:36:45 AM PST by granada
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To: relictele
"biggest threat"

I've never seen a list of the numbers of innocent people who died from unwittingly contracting AIDs from infected homos. Remember Arthur Ashe died from a tainted blood transfusion. And there were the people in Florida who died from being deliberately infected by their homosexual dentist.

The blood of maybe thousands of innocent people is directly on the hands of all the homo activists who spread the myth of the disease being spread by all members of society. Instead the disease was almost 100% spread by male homos and intravenous drug users. But mostly by male homos. They managed to murder thousands thanks to their promiscuous and criminal behavior.

12 posted on 11/21/2014 6:58:57 AM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: granada

“This rises to 13 per cent in London - meaning that one in eight sexually active gay men now has the condition. “

Knows they have the condition


13 posted on 11/21/2014 7:02:11 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: PapaBear3625

In DC, 5% of blacks, aged 15-60, are HIV positive. One out of twenty adult blacks. That made me a little nervous in my classrooms in PG County.


14 posted on 11/21/2014 7:27:03 AM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: driftless2

And yet they keep moaning about un-banning gay men for blood donations.

The reckless self-aggrandizement with these people never ceases and never ceases to amaze.


15 posted on 11/21/2014 7:38:19 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: relictele
Ever since the radical homo lobby reared its ugly head in the late sixties, I've noticed one thing about them...everything is about them. They brook no arguments to their unhealthy actions calling anybody who objects "homophobes" or "haters." They purposely fostered the ten percent of the population is homo myth, and wormed their nasty ideas into everything they could.

Well, they're right in one respect...I do hate radical homos. Along with the radical feminists, race-baiters, and other assorted commies, they've done great harm to the country.

16 posted on 11/21/2014 8:42:23 AM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: relictele
"And yet they keep moaning about un-banning gay men for blood donations."

Here in Britain the gay lobby was recently successful in getting the Department of Health to revoke the lifetime ban on taking blood donations from previously active gay men. (Gay men are now supposed to wait for at least a year after having sexual intercourse with another man before they can give blood).

The gay lobby claimed that the lifetime ban was an example of institutionalised prejudice rather than a sensible precaution based upon the fact that in the UK active gay men are over 54 times more likely to be HIV+ than active heterosexual men (who do not have risk factors other than sexual activity).

As a result of this policy change the DH admits the risk of contracting HIV from a blood transfusion in the UK has slightly increased. Political correctness really can be the death of us!

17 posted on 11/21/2014 9:38:52 AM PST by Lord Flash
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To: granada

Come on everybody we’ve got quilting to do.


18 posted on 11/21/2014 9:40:34 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: driftless2

I realize that Rush has talked about AIDS as the politicization of disease and I don’t mean to repeat his points but I arrived at similar conclusions long ago.

I remember all the praise for Randy Shilts ‘And The Band Played On,’ the TV film ‘An Early Frost’ etc. All of this was meant to evoke sympathy for what, in many cases, was contraction of AIDS by people who knew full well what the risks were and, to make matters worse, resisted any calls to modify, curtail or condemn the practices and hot spots contributing to the spread of the disease.

And then we had the AIDS quilt and the rest of it. Utter insanity. Even if we allow for, say, 25% of victims being unwitting victims that leaves the balance as, of course, witting victims. This would be like a convention of people with smashed thumbs who collectively refused to stop swinging hammers at their own hands.

In the meantime, a 70 year old heterosexual man who lived on the East Coast of a vast landmass and who just happened to be president at the time was somehow faulted for the result of what homosexuals on the West Coast were getting up to in bathhouses, clubs, etc.

‘The Myth Of Heterosexual AIDS’ was published and it was unassailable in its facts but that didn’t stop the outcry against it.

The historical revisionism and contemporary blinders still rankle: ‘We didn’t know what it was! We didn’t know how it was transmitted! We didn’t know how to stop it!’ Absolute rot. They knew, we knew and the fact that treatment was lacking should have stopped the carriers in their tracks but irresponsible people are, well, irresponsible. And so we got a long of hypocritical finger-pointing and sanctimony about how it was society’s problem etc.


19 posted on 11/21/2014 10:34:13 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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I blame Reagan!


20 posted on 11/21/2014 10:48:24 AM PST by pluvmantelo (Democrats:the party of moral hazard, the IRS, the NSA and the heckler's veto)
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