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""The perception of stigma, from other gay men or from the wider culture, is a barrier to testing."

This is plainly wrong. As I have stated a dozen times, "stigma, and discrimination" have decreased significantly over the last decade civil unions and homosexual "marriage" have been entered as legislation, homosexuals are massively over represented in the media and in the political sphere........yet STD rates among male homosexuals have been rising steadily during that period and are still rising.

Fear of death from AIDS cut the transmission rates amongst MSM at a stroke....now it is perceived to be "manageable" and many male homosexuals have reverted to their original behavioural patterns.

Only increased targeted testing and contact tracing in the MSM demographic, can halt the epidemic of not only HIV, but all male STDs.