Posted on 12/31/2013 5:28:12 AM PST by reaganaut1
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Many health experts hoped that the medication — Truvada, a combination of two antiviral drugs that has been used to treat H.I.V. since 2004 — would be exuberantly embraced by H.I.V.-negative gay men. Instead, Truvada has been slow to catch on as an H.I.V. preventive in the 18 months since the strategy’s approval by the Food and Drug Administration. In some quarters, the idea that healthy gay men should take a medication to prevent infection — an approach called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP — has met with hostility or indifference.
“It’s gotten tons of attention at H.I.V. meetings as a new tool for prevention, and I consider it an important option for the right person,” said Dr. Lisa Capaldini, a primary care doctor here who treats many gay men. “And yet there’s been very little interest among my patients. There’s a fascinating disconnect.”
For 30 years, public health officials have aggressively promoted condom use during every sexual encounter as the only effective method, apart from abstinence, for preventing H.I.V. transmission. Still, 50,000 new infections are occurring annually in the United States; sexual transmission between men accounts for more than half of them, and a disproportionate number among African-Americans and other minorities.
Many experts hailed Truvada as an opportunity to reduce new infections among high-risk groups like young gay men, people in relationships with H.I.V.-positive partners, and prostitutes. The F.D.A. called for prescriptions to be accompanied by counseling, frequent H.I.V. testing, and continued promotion of safer sex, although research suggests that daily use of the pill alone confers close to full protection.
For many gay men, and for some public health officials, the new option has brought both hope and confusion.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
It allows them to claim victim status and blame the imaginary homophobes.
Homos seem incapable of making rational decisions. Many of them have some sort of twisted death wish.
It’s all the fault of heteros because we don’t embrace their lifestyle and promote gay marriage...
Sure preventative there Brad. Keep mens peepees outta yourass
Leviticus 18:22-25 (KJV)
...Be it earthquakes, disease, volcanic eruptions, super storms, meteorites falling from space, ... the Earth will use whatever she has on hand to try to defend herself from the consequences of mankind's sin.
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
All sinners, will reap what they sow. Homosexuals are no different. The best way to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, or any of the other diseases most commonly found in sodomites is for the sodomites to stop being sodomites.
And yes.... We all know that one must choose to be a pervert much the same way one must choose to smoke, drink strong alcohol, sleep around on one's spouse, jump off a cliff, etc. We are NOT born sick and twisted, disease ridden, child molesting abominations. That behavior, like all sinful behavior, is taught.
PERIOD!
These are the same people that want to donate blood with no restrictions?
Come on!
Many pick it up in prisons, and the prisons because of HIPPA Act cannot disclose the fact to the partner or in some states spouse.
I think this is wrong. As is letting them give blood. Today’s drugs surpress it so much it is hard to tell if a person is or is not positive.
Every heard of this disease: Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease or CJD is a degenerative neurological disorder that is incurable and invariably fatal. CJD is at times called a human form of mad cow.
Husband’s brother died of it 8 months after contracting it, every one in his family including spouses are not allowed to give blood. Curious is that his dentist who he had seen just before he got sick died of the same disease.
Except that the third paragraph from the bottom seems to me a bit like Gaia.
Homosexual sex = death wish...
Still, 50,000 new infections are occurring annually in the United States; sexual transmission between men accounts for more than half of them, and a disproportionate number among African-Americans and other minorities.
Disproportionate ?
It is what it is.
It would be disproportionate if someone were deliberately
infecting African/Americans and other minorities.
Just sayin.
They are mentally ILL.. period.
The removal of Homosexuality from the DSM VI had NOTHING to do with science, just politics.
DSM IV not VI
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