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The remedy I'm seeing in the pop-up ads here at USMB and elsewhere is for gay guys to be open and honest about their HIV status with each other. That's the remedy the CDC has prescribed to a population famous for promiscuous anonymous sex with other men.Fast Facts
HIV disproportionately affects young men who have sex with men (YMSM).
YMSM:
- In 2011, among adolescent males aged 13–19 years, approximately 93% of all diagnosed HIV infections were from male-to-male sexual contact.
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- From 2008–2011, YMSM aged 13–24 years had the greatest percentage increase (26%) in diagnosed HIV infections.
- 3 (Figure 1) http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/sexualbehaviors/pdf/hiv_factsheet_ymsm.pdf
Let that sink in for a minute. This subpopulation has all the symptoms of childhood molestation, from studies done with the CDC's own money, complete with rampant signs of mental illness co-morbid. And the CDC's solution to this problem is "stark honesty within the suffering patients themselves"?
Wow. Abysmal FAIL. Here is what the CDC already knows about the gay male population: the singular most affected population in the US from our AIDS epidemic:
ATLANTA [2005 Clinical Psychiatry News] -- Substance abuse is pervasive among gay men and is so intricately intertwined with epidemics of depression, partner abuse, and childhood sexual abuse that adequately addressing one issue requires attention to the others as well, said Ronald Stall, Ph.D., chief of prevention research for the division of HIV/AIDS prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta...
So this is the population that the CDC is now trusting to stem the epidemic, by being honest with each other. Let me remind people here who don't know. A good family friend of ours was molested as a boy by a man, grew up with compulsive gay sexual behaviors while still falling in love with women. In an uncured vendetta-stew of mental illness with all the symptoms listed in the above quote, he went out after he was predictably infected with HIV, to have as much anonymous sex with as many partners as possible in order to manifest a subconscious desire to "get even" with "those who did this to me". Hundreds or perhaps thousands [he was sick for years before he had obvious symptoms and died] were "murdered" in this way.
I predict the CDC's strategy is going to fail the public. Everyone there involved with HIV prevention should be fired. And "regular testing"? Yeah, mentally ill people are FAMOUS for getting regular health checkups on their own volition.
This isn't rocket science. The disease is running ahead of the public's willingness to be honest about what makes it's main vectors tick.