Sexually Transmitted Infections Reach Record High for 6th Year in a Row

POZ ^ | April 30, 2021 | Liz Highleyman

[outofsalt]

"Black people were five to eight times more likely; American Indians, Alaska Natives and Pacific Islanders were three to five times more likely; and Latinos were up to twice as likely as non-Hispanic white people to be diagnosed with STDs"

No, not really, they were testing in

[usafa92]

70% of the world has HSV-1 which causes cold sores. Abreva cuts maybe a day or two off an outbreak.

[FamiliarFace]

I have type 1. Since I started taking D3 daily since last April, I haven’t had a single outbreak, but plenty of high stress. I would be interested in knowing if there have been any studies in this regard, but I haven’t looked it up myself yet. It’s just an observation of mine, but truthfully, I am taking several other supplements that I didn’t take before CoVid. Feel better than ever.

[a fool in paradise]

“Love wins” and brings with it the baggage of one night stands from long ago or just last week.

[a fool in paradise]

You can’t expect people marginalized by society to conform to wearing masks AND condoms.

[a fool in paradise]

abort it, then pretend it never happened

[a fool in paradise]

systemic capitalistic hegemony

[gas_dr]

Maybe HCq and ivermectin will work. Oh wait. Probably not. These are viruses. But impressive consistency with conspiracy theories.

[a fool in paradise]

Wear more masks

[Zathras]

Yep!
I have a female friend with lots of friends in gay community.
She is shocked at their current lifestyle and she is hard to shock.

[Wuli]

Getting an STD does not start with poverty or lack of health care. Those things may make the situation worse for an individual who acquires an STD but they are not prime causes.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Chlamydia -
Gonorrhea -
Syphilis -

Back about fifty years ago I read a book EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX (*But Were Afraid To Ask)by David R. Reuben M.D. in which it listed several other strains of VD! Some of them were really horrible! Bad enough you wanted to keep “IT” in your pants!

[Vaduz]

Lets not keep the white privilege women out of it. /s

[tbw2]

Imagine if we’d had HIV passports to enter bars or travel.

[daniel1212]

In 2018, on HIV transmission which is missing in the National Overview - Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance, 2019,

[daniel1212]

Thanks but apparently HIV no longer qualifies as a STD, while I dare you to find a recent stat that actually states how many STD’s the average women under 50 has.

[daniel1212]

From https://peacebyjesuscom.blogspot.com/2019/10/negative-effects-of-homosexual.html

In 2018, men who have sexual relations with other men (MSM) accounted for 66% of all new HIV diagnoses in the United States and 6 dependent areas. Young gay and bisexual men accounted for 83% of all new HIV diagnoses in people aged 13 to 24 in 2018. 

Heterosexual men accounted for 7% of HIV diagnoses, and heterosexual women accounted for 16% of HIV diagnoses.

Also male to male sexual contact was the mode of transmission in 92% of new HIV cases among male youth aged 13 to 24, and  MSM  accounted for 82% of diagnoses among males  and 70%  of all new HIV diagnoses, and 2 out of every 3 diagnoses in the United States.  Which is despite only representing approximately 4% of the male population). 

And which practice (historically)  has resulted in a greatly increased incidence of other infectious diseases   and premature death. And which practice is primarily responsible for more than 700,000 people with AIDS having died (as of 2017) since the beginning of the epidemic  - HIV/AIDS has killed more than 700,000 people in the U.S. since 1981despite decades of attempting to tame it into being "safe."  (Worldwide, 77.3 million people have contracted HIV and 35.4 million have died of AIDS-related illnesses since the beginning of the pandemic in 1981 (https://health.usnews.com/conditions/hiv-aids/articles/hiv-statistics)

In 2005, 28.7% of HIV-negative men reported sex without a condom, rising to 32.8% in 2008, 34.7% in 2011 and 40.5% in 2014. The overall trend was similar for HIV-positive men: in 2005, 34.2% reported sex without a condom, rising to 37.3% in 2008, 39.8% in 2011 and 44.5% in 2014. (https://www.aidsmap.com/news/may-2016/american-gay-mens-use-condoms-has-been-falling-decade-regardless-serosorting-or-prep)

There were 16,350 deaths in 2017 alone among adults and adolescents diagnosed with HIV in the United States and 6 dependent areas. [like as is usually the case with deaths attributed to the flu and COVID-19, deaths attributed to AIDS refers to killing indirectly].

One of the diseases that is far more prevalent among MSM than other population groups is that of anal cancer, which is diagnosed in about 2 people out of every 100,000 people in the general population. In contrast, it is estimated that MSMs that are not infected with HIV are 20 times more likely to be diagnosed with anal cancer. HPV is present in approximately 65% of HIV negative MSMs and 95% of MSMs who are HIV positive. Anal cancer is caused by the same strains of HPV (Human Papillomavirus) that cause cervical cancer in women. (https://cancer-network.org/cancer-information/gay-men-and-cancer/anal-cancer-hiv-and-gaybisexual-men)

Men who have sex with men accounted for  56.7% of all male P&S syphilis cases in 2019. Also, estimated rates of reported gonorrhea among MSM are 42 times the estimated rate among men who have sex with women. (https://www.cdc.gov/std/statistics/2019/overview.htm) 

The CDC study Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 2014 found that among male cases for whom the sex of the  partner was known, 83% of syphilis  cases were MSM.  75.53% of syphilis cases in 2014 were among homosexual men. 51% of the homosexual men diagnosed with syphilis in 2014 were also HIV-positive. (https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/cdc-83-syphilis-cases-2014-among-gay-men-where-sex-sex-partner-was)

Among women, studies have shown that viral STD rates among bisexual-identifying women aged 15 to 44 years were almost three times higher than women who have sex with women exclusively.  (https://www.stdcheck.com/blog/lgbt-std-statistics)

Then there is the problem of suicide and suicidal Behavior among LGBTQ and transgender persons (while compassion toward such should be shown, the high  suicide rate among LGBTQ persons is blamed on societal rejection, yet  in the West it is actually those who oppose homosexual relations that face the most widespread persecution, and minorities such as evangelical Christians face great persecution worldwide without being suicidal).

In addition, medically serious attempts at suicide are 4 times more likely among LGBTQ youth than other young people. (https://save.org/about-suicide/suicide-facts/)  

LGBQ young people are more than twice as likely to feel suicidal, and over four times as  likely to attempt suicide, compared to heterosexual youth (Kann 2016)

In a 2016-2017 survey from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, 28 percent of LGBTQ youth — including 40 percent of  transgender youth — said they felt depressed most or all of the time during the previous 30 days, compared to only 12 percent of non-LGBTQ youth (HRC Foundation 2017: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/LGBTQ_MentalHealth_OnePager.pdf)

The suicide attempt rate among transgender persons ranges from 32% to 50% across the countries. Fifty percent of transgender persons in Australia have attempted suicide at least once in their lives.[12] In England, 48% of the transgender young people had attempted suicide at least once in their lives.[13] The prevalence of suicide remains high among transgender persons irrespective of disclosing their transgender status to others and undergoing sex reassignment surgery.[8]  (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5178031)

 "41% of trans adults said they had attempted suicide, in one study. The same study found that 61% of trans people who were victims of physical assault had attempted suicide." (https://save.org/about-suicide/suicide-facts/)

In addition are 2018 CDC stats that also include heterosexual fornication:

[fwdude]

The queer hookup apps have made the whole world a highway rest stop men’s room. And if you crunch the numbers, you’d learn that virtually every homosexual has an active Grindr account, even the “married” ones.

The courts, and most hoodwinked people, bought the lie that gays were just like everyone else and that marriage would “civilize” them into healthy, monogamous couples. No sooner did the definition of marriage change than the masks fell off and “open marriages” were immediately accepted as the thing. They are NOTHING like real marriages.

[fwdude]

Great eye-opening stats. But the queers and their promoters will attribute all that disease-proneness to “societal homophobia.” In other words, it’s OUR fault.

[mewzilla]

What’s a non-notifiable disease?

Whatever the state says it it. Public health interest is optional.