Highest-ever HIV diagnoses in gay men
By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News, 29 November 2012.
gay men the headline says.
Then we get to the introductory paragraph: The number of gay and bisexual men being diagnosed with HIV in the UK reached an “all-time high” in 2011, according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA).
So now it is gay and bisexual men.
Then we get Nearly half of the 6,280 people diagnosed last year were men who had sex with other men (MSM).
So now it is men who had sex with other men
The chief executive of the National Aids Trust, Deborah Jack, said: “It is vitally important that gay men test at least once a year for STIs [sexually transmitted infections] and HIV, and every three months if they’re having unprotected sex with new or casual partners.
So Deborah Jack is back to gay men according to BBC.
I don’t think it is helpful tackling these preventable illnesses and deaths to lump together behaviorally bisexual and behaviorally homosexual men. Let’s be clear that many men who have sex with men probably don’t call themselves bisexual and many probably don’t call themselves gay and they are still getting ill and they are still dying.
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