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Gay, bisexual men complacent about HIV testing, study finds
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | September 25, 2014 | By Erin Allday

Posted on 09/25/2014 2:48:28 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Survey results released Thursday suggest a troubling complacency toward HIV among gay and bisexual men in the United States that public health experts say could undermine efforts to slow down or even stop spread of the disease.

Fewer than 20 percent of gay and bisexual men have been tested for HIV in the previous six months — as recommended by national public health agencies — and nearly a third have never been tested at all, according to a survey conducted this summer by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The same survey found that gay and bisexual men were largely uninformed about drug therapies to prevent HIV and that most of them rarely, if ever, talk to their doctors about the virus.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: aids; hiv; homosexualagenda
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1 posted on 09/25/2014 2:48:28 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When the favorite place for your homo date is a filthy restroom stall with a hole in the partition...


2 posted on 09/25/2014 2:51:56 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

With homosexuals its about having as much sex with as many men as you can. The “gay lifestyle” is deadly.


3 posted on 09/25/2014 2:52:28 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Mentally ill people tend to be that way.


4 posted on 09/25/2014 2:52:42 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It happens when you’re self loathing.


5 posted on 09/25/2014 2:57:30 PM PDT by clintonh8r (It's possible to love your country and hate your government. I'm proof of it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another shocking story that none of us realized could happen.


6 posted on 09/25/2014 2:57:32 PM PDT by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I read the article and in the comment section was a poster who was talking back and forth about personal responsibility for ones own actions in that lifestyle...there is at least one conservative in San Francisco, a log cabin republican maybe?


7 posted on 09/25/2014 3:07:28 PM PDT by mythenjoseph (Seperation of powers)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Only 20%. Let’s just say, I think someone is fudging the numbers.


8 posted on 09/25/2014 3:10:00 PM PDT by momincombatboots (Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Survey results released Thursday suggest a troubling complacency toward HIV among gay and bisexual men in the United States...

That's fine.

I'm equally complacent when militant, practicing sodomites die from AIDS.

9 posted on 09/25/2014 3:11:18 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry. A)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Complacent? Ha, some of them want it. It’s called chasing the bug.


10 posted on 09/25/2014 3:11:28 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s because HIV positive is a badge of honor for “family.”


11 posted on 09/25/2014 3:15:33 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Come on everybody we’ve got quilting to do.


12 posted on 09/25/2014 3:15:35 PM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Slobs.

While some gay guys live like Miss Manners in perfect homes, a lot of the other guys live like pigs - eating junk food in filthy apartments in NYC, drinking heavily and dashing broken beer bottles in each others’ face (trust me, I’ve seen it!), getting high on ecstasy and telling straight pals that their roommate has TB (trust me, I’ve been there!). It’s the life they choose and no wonder most of them croak before 60.


13 posted on 09/25/2014 3:18:59 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There are no “bi-sexual” men. There are gay men that have sex with women. Hence the number of non druggie women with AIDS.

It ain’t rocket science.


14 posted on 09/25/2014 3:23:14 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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There are no “bi-sexual” men.

"You either .... .... or you do not .... ...., there is no in-between."

15 posted on 09/25/2014 3:24:27 PM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, you know, this is how if got out of control in the first place. I know gays and liberal apologists like to say that HIV is everyones problem and that’s true. However, over 70% of all new cases are homosexual men between 17-35. They think they are invincible or immune to HIV and they aren’t


16 posted on 09/25/2014 3:26:28 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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You mean we could end up with fewer homosexuals? What’s the down side?


17 posted on 09/25/2014 3:35:36 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne ("Don't be afraid. Just believe." - Mark 5:36)
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To: realcleanguy

I think you’re giving gays too much epidemiological credit. Don’t forget about intravenous drug users who share needles.


18 posted on 09/25/2014 3:41:25 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: realcleanguy

Because of Obamacare, HI is now everyones problem, at least paying for it.


19 posted on 09/25/2014 4:58:39 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So what?

Some pitch for more tax money IMHO.


20 posted on 09/25/2014 5:10:17 PM PDT by onedoug
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