Fuck all is new.

HIV rates are constantly shown to be a mixed bag. HIV rates have nothing to do with being gay any more than they have anything to do with being heterosexual.

There are some, two in particular who would have people believe otherwise. Whenever they publish hatred, I shall confront it. So, it seems, will others.

Nothing new to see here.



Actually, there is something new. He rattles on about Cuba, whose health ministry worked with us to introduce screening and did a fairly good job of it. The one problem, as reported in the Lancet, British Medical Journal and elsewhere was that they chose to use numbers of people receiving antiretrovirals, which misses a large part of their population. Still, they mean't well and could speak of success. Sadly, the large rural population, especially young female sex workers slip through the net.

In the UK, the take up of screening is a huge success story, with new infections being caught at an early stage and late diagnosis falling, especially in the vulnerable segment of the gay population. Less so with sub Sahara origin heterosexuals, but working on it.

And as ever, sexual infections absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with being gay, straight or chasing sheep in a field. Anybody is vulnerable in any situation if they don't take precautions, and much safer if they do. The largest rampant sexually transmitted disease is Chlamydia, but despite making young women barren and shattering future family life, the crocodile tears concern for the population from Akenaton doesn't seem to touch it, as it is rarely a gay problem.

Funny that.

Actually, it isn't funny at all. Its sick.