Posted on 02/04/2014 6:51:18 AM PST by grundle
The National Institutes of Health has spent millions of dollars studying male sex workers in Peru, including more than $400,000 to determine why gay men get syphilis in the South American country.
“Syphilis remains an uncontrolled infectious disease globally, with high prevalence and incidence in certain high risk populations, affecting more than 20 percent of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Peru,” according to the grant, awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
“The incidence of syphilis in MSM in Peru is about 9 cases per 100 person-years,” it said. “We are proposing a study to improve our understanding of syphilis epidemiology and molecular biology, particularly among MSM.”
The study will “recruit a cohort of MSM and transgender persons at high risk for syphilis,” to measure incidence rates of syphilis over a two year period. Researchers will look at molecular and immunological factors for why MSM get syphilis and create a system for diagnosing and managing the sexually transmitted disease.
The project, “Syphilis: Translating Technology to Understand a Neglected Epidemic,” has received $464,272 since 2012.
The funding has gone to researchers at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, a private university in Lima, Peru. The school has two other active studies from the NIH devoted to male sex workers.
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MSM? Men Sodomizing Men?
I could of figured it out for half the amount.
There are a large number of active homosexuals in the Obama Administration. They spend taxpayer money on what interests them and their friends. That is why there are so many government funded “studies†of homosexual activity.
Why Peru? Or is that just the name of a fag club in New York?
“There is a sub group of gays in peru that has sex with llamas.”
Their spokesman(?) is a guy(?) named Al Packer.
I could have told the researchers that gay men get it there for the came reason they get it anywhere else.And I would only have charged them $500.00 for it.
I’m figuring either llamas or guinea pigs.
Don’t think about it too much.
I see what you did there. Does Al's brother Fudge keep the books for the group?
It boggles my mind why liberals think conservatives are the stupid ones.
Well, its not from screwing llamas.
Because we enable the liberals?
Someone should add up the number of these types of programs and they might be SURPRISED at the huge amount of money being STOLEN under this guise.
Kind of like the credit card scammers who charge an unnoticeable $10 or $20 dollars to a person's credit card.... but they charge a half million card holders.
It doesn’t take rocket science to know why. Only the clueless are puzzled by it.
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