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> How could discrimination against gays be the cause for the spread of HIV? People are less likely to seek testing, diagnosis or treatment if they will or thin

> How could discrimination against gays be the cause for the spread of HIV? People are less likely to seek testing, diagnosis or treatment if they will or think they will be at the receiving end of discrimination. Avoiding discrimination that could put your job, living situation or life at stake could also prevent treating a disease that does the same. > You know it's called a sexually transmitted disease for a reason, so anyone that has lots and lots of sexual partners has a higher risk. You're right, but there's a reason that certain subpopulations have a higher risk and occurrence rate and it has little to do with number of partners.

Amezarak 10y ago
Men who have sex with men do report having more sexual partners than heterosexual men [1]; the number of sexual partners is a factor in the rate of HIV infection among gay men. I think it would be reasonable to speculate the other major contributing factors are (as posted elsewhere) the hugely increased likelihood to transmit HIV during anal sex vice other kinds of sex and discrimination. [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21884382 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21884382