so we should encourage them to donate blood so we can screen for AIDS
Here, in the Land of the Holy Cross a.k.a. Zur Icognita Terra Oceanus (ZITO) a.k.a
Brazil when you donate blood you can actually choose if you want to actually
donate it or not, as lots of people are afraid of taking screenings so they use blood donations as excuses to get tested. Like, when you pass trough all the interview they'll still ask if they can use your blood. If you say yes, normal procedure. If you say no, they'll stick a huge needle on you, fill a blood bag, take a sample, test it and then discard the blood.
the numbers of new infections among the young LGBTQ population is increasing. It's discouraging.
That's because a) the government doesn't really care anymore, they just pretend they care and b) the population doesn't care anymore because either nihilism, they believe there is a cure already or whatever.
Again, here in
Banana Republic the Health Ministry launched a campaing called "undetectable = untransmitable", that means that if your HIV viral load is so small that it don't show up on exams you are untransmitable, wich is only an excuse for people to have unprotected sex
Initially I tought this was a brazil exclusive thing, but I see this is a somewhat worldwide phenomenon, with these two logos I = I and U = U trash.
Just to add more into this. Statistics are an amazing way to tell lies only using truth. According to
this data 54% of the new transmissions was inside "key populations". Let's say that the % of LGBT people in the world is around 5%, just to round up things.
Sorry for the language, but F_CK!, this is way too much! This means that 5% of the population is responsible for 50% of the new transmissions of HIV in GENERAL! Dang!
Transmission rate is not population prevalence.
Again, that's how statistics lie to you telling just truths.
Let us say that there are 100 humans.
Out of these 100 humans, 10 are LGBT.
Out of these 100, 20 are HIV+.
Out of these 20, 5 are LGBT and 15 are straight.
Of course there are much more non lgbt hiv positive people than lgbt hiv people in absolute numbers. But when you get the big picture that means that 50% of the LGBT people are infected while 16,6% of non lgbt people are infected, that's what happens in real life.
So now we have young gay men basically having promiscuous sex and some even chasing the bug (HIV) in order to GET infected so they can continue to have unprotected sex and rely on the "safety net" of the drugs.
Oh God the bug chasers again, i'm trying not to puke right now. Here in brazil they are known as clube do carimba, stamp club (like the positive stamp on exam).