Grindr joins major public health push to distribute free at-home HIV tests

NBC News ^ | March 21, 2023 | Jay Valle

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The world’s most popular gay dating app, Grindr, is participating in a nationwide effort to distribute free at-home HIV testing kits to populations most affected by the virus.

“If you’ve got a way that you are testing, and it’s really working for you, then that’s great, and you should stick with that,” Jack Harrison-Quintana, director of the app’s social justice division, Grindr for Equality, told NBC News. “If you don’t, this is an additional way for you to get tested in a way that’s just about as easy as doing an at-home Covid test.”

Grindr, which reports 12 million monthly active users worldwide, is partnering with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emory University and several other public health organizations and corporations on the Together TakeMeHome campaign, which launched Tuesday. Supported by a $41 million grant from the CDC, the program will provide up to 1 million HIV self-tests over five years, at no cost for individuals

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Paid for by you and me. Barf!!!!

Funny that they are unwittingly making an admission, that AIDS is a gay disease.

[dfwgator]

“Come on ev’rybody we’ve got quiliting to do.”

[nickcarraway]

Do people who use that app care about such things?

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Good question.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

I’ve noticed a pharmaceutical commercial recently that announces their pill will make your Aids ‘undetectable.’ Does not say that you do not still have Aids, just that by today’s ability to detect, nothing is detected after using this ‘medicine.’ The images in the commercial hint that ‘now I can date again.’

Heck, let’s just open up the bathhouses again, and have at it!

[WinstonSmith1984]

It is pretty easy these days to know if you have (v)AIDS...

1) Did you take a COVID MNRA vaccine?
Yes- You have v(AIDS) continue to find out if you might have AIDS as well
No- Are you having unprotected sex with multiple partners?
Yes- You might have AIDS.
Are you having unprotected sex that might rupture an anus?
Yes- You are at high risk of having AIDS
No- You are at low risk of having AIDS but at a high risk of other diseases.
No- You probably don’t have AIDS

That is my free home AIDS test, no patent. Open for use for the GenPop at their own risk.

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Yep, the “undetectable” farce. You are still a loaded gun pointing at someone, maybe with more than half the chambers of the revolver empty.

Funny that even if you point a completely EMPTY gun at someone and pull the trigger, it’s still a crime.

[WinstonSmith1984]

I Need to figure out how to get formatting correct...

t is pretty easy these days to know if you have (v)AIDS...

1) Did you take a COVID MNRA vaccine?
A.....Yes- You have v(AIDS) continue to find out if you might have AIDS as well
B.........No- Are you having unprotected sex with multiple partners?
a)...........Yes- You might have AIDS.
b)...................Are you having unprotected sex that might rupture an anus?
c)..........................Yes- You are at high risk of having AIDS
d).........................No- You are at low risk of having AIDS but at a high risk of other diseases.
A).....No- You probably don’t have AIDS

That is my free home AIDS test, no patent. Open for use for the GenPop at their own risk.

[imabadboy99]

Filthy disease spreaders.

[daniel1212]

Companion thread: PrEP, the HIV prevention pill, must now be totally free under almost all insurance plans [Also now from CDC: send up to 1 million free HIV self-tests over the next 5 years = helps reduce HIV yet subsidizing and promoting immoral behavior : see comment]

[daniel1212]

The two typically do go together:

From Negative effects of homosexual relations (and heterosexual fornication)

"Young gay and bisexual men accounted for 84% (5,161) of all new HIV diagnoses in people aged 13 to 24 in 2020," and "in 2019, among transgender adults and adolescents, the largest percentage (93%) of diagnoses of HIV infections was for transgender MTF, and  in 2019, diagnoses of HIV infection among adolescent and young adult males (85%) and females (12%) accounted for approximately 97% of HIV diagnoses (Table 8b).". 

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/images/group/gender/men/2020/cdc-hiv-men-diagnoses-bar-graph-700x318.png

 

92% of HIV infections among men aged 13 to 24 was attributed to male-to-male sexual contact:

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/images/group/age/youth/cdc-hiv-youth-sex-700x698.png  

  Likewise in 2014: https://supremecourt.flcourts.gov/content/download/242689/file/Debaun%2013-2336(2).pdf

In 2019, gay, bisexual, and other men who reported male-to-male sexual contact accounted for 86% of estimated infections among all men. (https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/statistics/overview/in-us/incidence.html)

As well as 80% of all new HIV cases (not just among men):

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/images/library/reports/hiv-surveillance/vol-33/infographics/cdc-hiv-diagnoses-by-gender-infographic-1920x1080.png

In 2019, 70% of all new HIV infections in the U.S. were among homosexual men, and 63% of all people in the US with HIV were homosexual men. (https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/fact-sheets/hiv/HIV-gay-bisexual-men.html) 

In 2020: 

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/images/library/reports/hiv-surveillance/vol-33/Graphics-03.png?_=75165

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/images/statistics/overview/in-us/HIV-in-the-US_2022-49-large.png?_=61599

 

[dsrtsage]

Did buttpox just simply go away?

[WinstonSmith1984]

I thought so... but thanks for the hard data!

[SIDENET]

Did buttpox just simply go away?

Yeah, it ended up in the "latest scare" dustbin along with murder hornets.

[Trumpisourlastchance]

Cesspool.

[Gay State Conservative]

Isn’t that the fag hookup site?