Do I have AIDS ?
This issue has been talked about. Adri wrote it well in Airborne Diseases and Synonym Gay:AIDS.
Many of her points reflect what I feel. Although I most probably couldn't put it as well as she did.
I am beyond any urge to discuss or defend such accusations. I have simply come to terms that such ignorant and irresponsible behaviour is accepted by our conservative majority.
Looking at the statistics of the increase in absolute numbers of gay men having HIV/AIDS, I can think of a few reasons :
(1) Look at Fridae and SGBoy websites, you will see many messages and ads telling people to practise safe sex and to get tested. And also annonymous HIV testing are available.
(2) Seeing how information for gays are not available from other media, most internet-enabled gays will frequent these sites. Thus, lots of education actually happens
(3) Only those old-men, no-internet-at-home types lack these messages.
(4) Compare that with our straight-laced HIV/AIDS campaign in Singapore, targetting the majority of the straight population. Message is "ABSTAIN FROM SEX", "YOU DO NOT KNOW WHO HAS AIDS".. blah blah blah. Not many (I have seen a few private posters in pub toilets) have the "Practise Safe Sex" message. Why ? Because our government doesn't want to be seen as promoting casual sex.
Thus, isn't it only logical that :
(a) Gay men are more acceptable to go for HIV/AIDS testing, especially when annonymous ones are widely publicised to the gay population.
(b) Straight men are not told about safe sex practise. They are told to abstain and most horny men will just ignore that.
Also, I am sure more and more gay men are willing to tick the "homosexual" part of the form as compared to a few years ago.
What is lacking in the statistics are :
(1) the number of heterosexuals who went for testing
(2) the number of homosexuals who went for testing
True, 22% of the HIV/AIDS cases are from homosexuals. But how many gays have gone for testing ? Assuming that only 10% of the population are gay, it shows the percentage of gay population going for testing.
If we have the number, we can also see if the corresponding percentage of heterosexuals have gone for testing. That will the be a truer reflection of the reality.
Otherwise, saying that the spike in HIV/AIDS is due to gay is not wrong, but to link it to the parties is just ridiculous.
posted by Happy in Singapore @ 11:07 am
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1 Comments:
statistic figures are often manipulated or wrongly intepreted on public media. and when it comes to homosexual & HIV cases, it was often used to paint a picture of how dirty, dangerous we are. media like to treat people like dumb ass, but still there are many people dumb enough to believe them.
through media, the general public got an idea that HIV is basically homosexual problem, in which case they aren't really affected because "oh i have never had gay sex". that's such a dangerous idea that the media (including the government) is promoting. if the government do not act fast and start educating straight people, i'm afraid more straight people will end up kana HIV. that's a sad thing.
but i think that there's more sexual activity in homosexual society, because when one gay man meet another gay man, it's just fun. but having more sex is good la. just make sure it's safe sex.
as simple as that, dunno why people so dumb cannot follow the simple advice.
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