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I don't understand how a fact is a myth? https://www.reuters.com/article/health-global-aids/men-with-same-sex-partners-28-times-more-likely-to-get-hiv-u-n-idUS
by voz_ 5y ago
I don't understand how a fact is a myth?
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-global-aids/men-with-same-sex-partners-28-times-more-likely-to-get-hiv-u-n-idUSL8N1UD5KN https://www.reuters.com/article/health-global-aids/men-with-...
There is no shame in it, different diseases and viruses affect different people differently, because of different behaviors. It does not make Gay people worse, or better. It just means the actions they participate in, as a demographic cohort, is more likely to lead to an HIV infection when normalized for factors against another, non Gay, group.
HIV has always been a huge thing in the gay community, and erasing that or trying to shift from that is an odd form of historical rewriting. Anyone who lived in SF during the HIV epidemic remembers this.
- s1artibartfast 5y agoMen who have sex with men are vastly more likely to get HIV, but account for a minority of the annual infections globally. [1] Sex workers and customers make up a larger percent of infections. Most HIV infections occur in women opposed to men. I don't find the language particularly offensive, but I cant imagine them replacing LGBTQ+ in the sentence with sex workers. Then again, this is a publication for lbtq audiences, not sex workers. https://www.avert.org/global-hiv-and-aids-statistics https://www.avert.org/global-hiv-and-aids-statistics
- miked85 5y agoThe pie chart in your link seems a bit suspect, there is a lot of overlap with the groups included.
- s1artibartfast 5y agoI thought so too and tried to check the sources, which were a mess. I was willing to give the benefit of the doubt and say they are probably in the ballpark