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Push for more testing has failed to reduce HIV levels in UK homosexuals: study

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English: Main symptoms of acute HIV infection. Sources are found in main article: Wikipedia:Hiv#Acute_HIV_infection. Model: Mikael Häggström. To discuss image, please see Template_talk:Häggström diagrams (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) CAMBRIDGE, February 4, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Despite a substantial increase in HIV testing at sexually transmitted infection clinics in the UK, there has been no decline in HIV incidence among homosexuals in England and Wales , according to a new study. The study, carried out by researchers from the UK Medical Research Council 's Biostatistics Unit, examined whether increases in testing rates and antiretroviral therapy coverage corresponded to the control of HIV transmission in the UK's population of men who have sex with men ( MSM ) since 2001.  They found that despite an almost four-fold expansion in HIV testing in MSM (16,000 homosexual men in 2001 to 59,300 in 2010), a reduction in the average time-to-diagnosis interval from...

Life expectancy Homosexual men 20 year loss

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THE Left knows a great a prize is within its grasp: any law redefining marriage will mandate the new definition with the full force of anti-discrimination law , thus completing the 1960s sexual revolution. Hence the commitment by Jim Wallace , head of the Australian Christian Lobby , to make people understand that laws for gay marriage will crush conscientious objection by parents who oppose the promotion of homosexual behaviour to schoolchildren. Wallace wrote here last December: "If our schools are concerned about discouraging smoking for its seven to 10-year shortening of life, how can we in all honesty encourage a lifestyle for men that shortens it on average by double that?" But when he made similar comments last week in a debate with Christine Milne , the Greens reported him to the Human Rights Commission and Julia Gillard cancelled her speech on "religious freedom in a secular society" to the ACL conference . Wallace's figures are sound: a 20-year loss...

HIV increasing due to risky sexual sin or homophobia?

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English: Diagram of the HIV virus. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Despite overwhelming medical evidence that AIDS is exponentially growing among homosexuals because of behavioral risks, the widely read medical journal Lancet is telling the medical community that " homophobia is a key driver" of the growing epidemic. And the Lancet is calling for the decriminalization of homosexual behavior and the removal of any stigma and discrimination attached to homosexuality. In a new series of papers, "HIV in Men Who Have Sex with Men ", Lancet delves deeply into the root causes of the HIV pandemic among homosexuals , analyzing the biological, behavioral , and structural risks that affect men having sex with men. The series was presented at a symposium during the AIDS 2012 conference last week in Washington D.C. presented by Professor Chris Beyrer from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health . The findings of the papers are contradictory. On the one hand the p...