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Well, yes, maybe. The gay community also happens to be rather well-organized when it comes to STD threats. Together with the more benign course this strain seem
by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
Well, yes, maybe. The gay community also happens to be rather well-organized when it comes to STD threats. Together with the more benign course this strain seems to take, the varied presentation, and issues of shame, it is not unreasonable to believe that self-selection and other issues may affect the statistics right now.
And, either way, the statistics would have looked exactly like that in the early years of the HIV epidemic, which obviously became a huge burden on society as a whole, both in terms of infections and death as well as curtailing sexual freedom.
- foobiekr 4y agoThis isn't really true. The continued persistence of new HIV cases, syphilis and gonorrhea isn't really an indicator of being "well organized." There's basically no reason anyone post-1995 should have gotten HIV, and yet 34k+ people a year, mostly young men, continue to get it.
- ethbr0 4y agoWell... the US at least has also spent the last few decades decreasing funding to community sexual health centers, which were at the forefront of the AIDS response. So, that's not great. Hopefully this is a reason to reallocate money to a critical part of public health. If anyone is curious, there's a 2019 survey of "the challenges experienced by state and local public health entities at the frontline of STD prevention and control" (NCSD Phase II report): https://www.ncsddc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/NCSD-Phase-II-Final-Report.pdf https://www.ncsddc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/NCSD-Phase...