{"id":229,"date":"2012-11-29T11:05:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T11:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skibbley.dreamwidth.org\/393696.html"},"modified":"2012-11-29T11:05:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T11:05:54","slug":"skibbley-2012-11-29-110554","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2012\/11\/skibbley-2012-11-29-110554\/","title":{"rendered":"skibbley 2012-11-29 11:05:54"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-20526380\">Highest-ever HIV diagnoses in gay men<\/a><br \/>By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News, 29 November 2012.<\/p>\n<p><cite>gay men<\/cite> the headline says.<\/p>\n<p>Then we get to the introductory paragraph: <cite>The number of gay and bisexual men being diagnosed with HIV in the UK reached an &#8220;all-time high&#8221; in 2011, according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA).<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>So now it is <cite>gay and bisexual men<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<p>Then we get <cite>Nearly half of the 6,280 people diagnosed last year were men who had sex with other men (MSM).<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>So now it is <cite>men who had sex with other men<\/cite><\/p>\n<p><cite>The chief executive of the National Aids Trust, Deborah Jack, said: &#8220;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&#8217;re having unprotected sex with new or casual partners.<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>So Deborah Jack is back to <cite>gay men<\/cite> according to BBC.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think it is helpful tackling these preventable illnesses and deaths to lump together behaviorally bisexual and behaviorally homosexual men. Let&#8217;s be clear that many men who have sex with men probably don&#8217;t call themselves bisexual and many probably don&#8217;t call themselves gay and they are still getting ill and they are still dying.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dreamwidth.org\/tools\/commentcount?user=skibbley&#038;ditemid=393696\" width=\"30\" height=\"12\" alt=\"comment count unavailable\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\"\/> comments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highest-ever HIV diagnoses in gay menBy 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 r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bisexual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}