Increased STI diagnoses in gay men with HIV are mainly due to more testing

AIDS Map ^ | 4 November 2025 | Gus Cairns

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A study presented at the recent 20th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2025) has found that the apparent rise in sexually transmitted infections (STIs), at least in gay and bisexual men with HIV in France, are due to more frequent testing rather than more infections.

Dr Sophie Novelli of the Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP) of the French national scientific health research agency INSERM presented data from 2016 to 2023 taken from the PRIMO cohort.

PRIMO is a long-standing cohort, founded in 1996, of people diagnosed with HIV during very early infection. It includes men and women of all sexualities and ethnicities, but about three-quarters of them are gay and bisexual men, and this study only included them. It collects data on HIV status, STIs, co-infections and sexual behaviour annually. Cohort members may be tested for STIs less or more often than annually, as STI tests are performed at the discretion of the physician, as suggested by STI symptoms and by the annual behavioural questionnaire. In practice, as the data below shows, screening tests for STIs, especially for chlamydia or gonorrhoea, were the exception rather than the rule in 2016.

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KEYWORDS: aids; disease; hiv; homosexualagenda; whygripeaboutit; whypost

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A laughable claim, but they are completely unaware that homosexuals STILL are astronomically more prone to these sexual diseases than the general public.

Playing in poop and eating it has consequences.

[allendale]

Anti Darwinian ,hedonistic decadence is not without consequence. Fundamental rule of biology. That which does procrate, does not aid in procreation or is not capable of procreation is eliminated by nature.

[Larry Lucido]

And so-called “climate change” is due to more temperature taking.

[Ex-Con777]

There’s no mention that Covid cases rose because of mandatory testing either.

EC

[mewzilla]

Nah, can’t be PrEP being used by people taking it as a reason to continue to engage in promiscuous sex.

And/or CoupFlu vaxxes impairing their immunity.

Nope. It’s testing.

Riiight...

[V_TWIN]

Any data analyst can show you how to normalize the numbers to show if it is more infections or more testing.

Usually done “per 1,000, 10,000 or 100,000”.

The French not smart enough to figure that out?

[dfwgator]

Come on ev’rybody, we’ve got quilting to do!

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I'm not officially a statistician, but wouldn't it be true that the RATE has nothing to do with the size of the sample? In other words, if you test 100 homosexuals or 1 million, wouldn't the rate remain relatively stable in this group?

If the rate is going up, doesn't that suggest another factor affecting it? If you're testing MORE homosexuals for STD's, and it's a relatively healthy population as they claim, just as healthy as the general population, then more tests would DILUTE the bad statistics showing higher rates of infection. Am I in error here?

[fwdude]

Naw, that quilt got sh*t on by the cat.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Well, that makes me feel SO much better about HIV. Not.

[mewzilla]

Here’s an abstract for the study...

https://eacs2025.abstractserver.com/program/#/details/presentations/685

Looks like the study is on the increase in cases of bacterial STIs.

And claims that’s do to testing.

Note this bit...

“Regardless of the period, more frequent annual STI screening was associated with younger age, reporting >10 sexual partners and inconsistent condom use.”

Wanna bet they didn’t control for those?

[tumblindice]

Rock Hudson and Freddie Mercury are nestled in Apollo’s loving arms on gay Mt. Olympus, getting boo foo’d.

[Larry Lucido]

That would seem to me to be the case, but it's been 45 years since I took a statistics class and read this book:

[tumblindice]

Gov. Walz’s state is having a problem with a gay zombie STD disease now.
https://karepedia.com/flesh-eating-std
Brrrrrr! The wages of sin are .... brrrrrrr

[HYPOCRACY]

The way to cure cancer is to not test for it.

[Dan Zachary]

Numbers can prove whatever you want them to. I love reminding my daughter that I was 22 times her age when she was one year old. Now she is more than half my age. If she keeps this up, then soon she will be older than me.

[enumerated]

EEEEWW..

I know it’s an important issue that needs to be discussed - but… eeeww..

[webheart]

It would seem that if increased testing leads to more positive diagnoses, the thing to do would be to not test so much. Problem solved!

[Mathews]

So, they don’t call them diseases anymore, huh? Now they’re only infections...

[Da Coyote]

Nothing to see here. Move along, move along.