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WHO warns HIV 'exploding' among gay men, urges preventive drugs
AFP ^ | 11 July 14 | Diptendu Dutta

Posted on 07/14/2014 6:05:55 AM PDT by SkyPilot

HIV infections are rising among gay men in many parts of the world, the World Health Organization warned Friday, urging all men who have sex with men to take antiretroviral drugs to prevent infection.

"We are seeing exploding epidemics," warned Gottfried Hirnschall, who heads WHO's HIV department.

Infection rates are rising again among men who have sex with men -- the group at the epicentre of AIDS pandemic when it first emerged 33 years ago, he told reporters in Geneva.

While images of skeletal men dying of AIDS in the 1980s pushed the world to act, a younger generation that has grown up among new treatments that make it possible to live with HIV are less focused on the disease, he suggested.

Today, this group is 19 times more likely than the general population to be infected by HIV, Hirnschall said.

In Bangkok for instance, the incidence of HIV among men who have sex with men stands at 5.7 percent, compared to less than 1.0 percent for the overall population, he said.

n its new recommendations for combatting the HIV/AIDS pandemic, published Friday, the UN health agency therefore for the first time "strongly recommends men who have sex with men consider taking antiretroviral medicines as an additional method of preventing HIV infection".

US authorities made the same recommendation in May.

Taking pre-exposure prophylaxis medication, for instance as a single daily pill combining two antiretrovirals, in addition to using condoms, has been estimated to cut HIV incidence among such men by 20-25 percent, WHO said, stressing that this could avert "up to one million new infections among this group over 10 years".

The new guidelines also focus on other high-risk groups, pointing out that men who have sex with men, transgender people, prisoners, people who inject drugs...

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aids; antiretrovirals; gay; hiv; homosexual; homosexualagenda; lgbt; obamacaredrugs; prevention
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To: SkyPilot

duh!

who didn’t think drugs that dont cure the disease, but only mask the symptoms and extend life wouldn’t result in a higher AIDS infection percentage!


21 posted on 07/14/2014 7:24:49 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: SkyPilot
I should have sympathy for people with deadly diseases, but it's difficult for me to work up tears for a segment of the population that refuses to accept responsibility for their actions or take proper steps to avoid disease. The cause of HIV infection was known in the early '80s (unprotected anal sex) and that infection could be halted by using condoms. The homos were enraged at the idea that they were responsible for their plight and proceeded to blame Reagan because he didn't find a cure overnight.

Then the general public was subjected to a barrage of pro-homosexual messages, plays, and movies concerning the subject. The media outright lied to the public that everybody was equally liable to contracting the disease when they knew full well that if you weren't a male homosexual engaging in unsafe buggering practices or a dirty-needle junkie, the odds of contracting the disease were tiny. Even though some people (Arthur Ashe) were infected by HIV-tainted blood tranfusions and died, the risk for non-male homos was exceedling small.

So since then I weep few tears for these people. They spread a disease that managed to kill hundreds or thousands of innocent people who did not engage in unsafe sex practices, and they blamed other people (Reagan, conservatives) because they didn't find a cure overnight allowing them to keep engaging in unsafe buggering. Even now many of them still practice unsafe sex and keep getting infected. They made their bed, they can lay in it.

22 posted on 07/14/2014 7:31:19 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: SkyPilot

Anyone notice that even with the condoms and anti-viral the risk is only lessened by 20-25%?

I wonder what it would be reduced with just condoms.


23 posted on 07/14/2014 7:32:30 AM PDT by tiki
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To: Rummyfan

“Like Trinoassitol?”
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Or Nopokabunghol. I have heard of a new repellent spray called “Deepwoods Bruceoff” that is said to work well. A strict policy of Don’t Love Reggie should also help.


24 posted on 07/14/2014 7:36:25 AM PDT by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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25 posted on 07/14/2014 7:38:59 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: SkyPilot; wagglebee

Here’s an oldie but a goodie.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/718886/posts

The WHO says HIV is exploding among gays, but the gays want to give blood transfusions. The 2002 link is about infections gotten from tainted blood!

Read and Remember


26 posted on 07/14/2014 8:05:21 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins

Here is a thread from just last week about them wanting to give blood:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3178966/posts


27 posted on 07/14/2014 8:09:42 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: SkyPilot

Meanwhile, back at the hospital...

Universities to host ‘National Gay Blood Drive’ (Free at Last- Free at Last)
Campus Reform ^ | 7-11-2014 | K
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3180021/posts?page=1


28 posted on 07/14/2014 8:26:52 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: SkyPilot

The proven way to stop these coprophiliacs is to slam them back into the closet or pass laws banning the behavior.


29 posted on 07/14/2014 8:29:16 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: JimRed

I remember that, and was getting ready to mention it. You beat me to it.

Now they want to contaminate the blood supply again as Bill Clinton did when he allowed AIDS infected prisoners in Arkansas to donate blood.
Quite a few people died as a result.


30 posted on 07/14/2014 8:50:36 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
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To: SkyPilot

BTTT................


31 posted on 07/14/2014 9:04:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (I've posted a total of 2,763 threads and 85,286 replies. ...............)
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To: SkyPilot

The wages of sin are death.


32 posted on 07/14/2014 10:04:49 AM PDT by doberville
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To: SkyPilot

I file reports like this in the same “I Don’t Care” category as I do muslims-killing-muslims or commies-killing-commies.


33 posted on 07/14/2014 10:34:32 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: SkyPilot

That is unexpected. Who could have guessed that pretending it was morally and socially okay for men to have sex with men would dramatically increase the transmission of a disease spread when men have sex with men?


34 posted on 07/14/2014 11:29:22 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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