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Your grand-grandparent post quite emphatically is FUD. Being MSM is positively correlated with a pattern of behaviour that elevates risk of HIV. So is being a c
by jarek 15y ago
Your grand-grandparent post quite emphatically is FUD. Being MSM is positively correlated with a pattern of behaviour that elevates risk of HIV. So is being a college student. So is serial monogamy. So is being a heterosexual male. Singling out one of these while making no attempt to break down the diverse group MSM by further detailing high-risk behaviour and black-marking it with an ominous question like "Do you really want the donation pool potentially contaminated by the HIV virus?" (who does?) is very much FUD against MSM as a whole.
- homosaur 15y agoMainStream Media?
- jarek 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSM_blood_donor_controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSM_blood_donor_controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_who_have_sex_with_men http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_who_have_sex_with_men
- jacoblyles 15y agoI'm sorry if reality offends anyone's PC sensibilities, but in the US MSM account for 49% of HIV cases[1] despite accounting for a small percentage of the population. MSM are MUCH more likely to get HIV than, say, frat boys who casually hook up with a lot of females. I'm not sure if the ban is completely justified, but there is potential reason behind it. [1]http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/docs/fastfacts-msm-final508comp.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/docs/fastfacts-msm-final...
- 4ad 15y ago49% of HIV cases are MSM, not 49% of MSMs have HIV, don't twist it around. You are trying to make it sound much worse than it really is, when in fact it's a non-issue, thus spreading FUD. Very few MSMs have HIV.
- jacoblyles 15y agoThat's what I said. Try reading my comment again. 49% of HIV cases = 580,000 cases. That's a staggeringly high infection rate in the MSM community in the United States - more than one in ten. The CDC estimates that one in five gay men have HIV in a study of 21 major cities, and that 40% of them don't know it.
- jarek 15y agoThe statistics do not offend my sensibilities. The FUD does. There is a long way between "up to one in five MSMs are HIV-positive" to dismissing discussion on whether all MSMs should be banned from donations for life with "Do you really want the donation pool potentially contaminated by the HIV virus?"