Will St Leger tweetz:
A graph of new HIV diagnoses among gay/bi men in Ireland over last decade. 2016 – one new HIV diagnosis every 18hrs…
Yesterday: Acquired Indifference
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Will St Leger tweetz:
A graph of new HIV diagnoses among gay/bi men in Ireland over last decade. 2016 – one new HIV diagnosis every 18hrs…
Yesterday: Acquired Indifference
That’s pretty shocking. Is it ignorance?
No it’s gay sex.
Anyone who hints that personal responsibility plays a role in the above is demonised as a hate-mongerer.
Lung cancer diagnoses amongst smokers…
Yep personal responsibility. But the difference is and im no doctor but im pretty sure unprotected sex is not a drug you get addicted to.
You have to wonder why someone would hint that though.
Do you hint at personal responsibility after every tragedy?
What a comfort you must be to have around!
If you play with fire you get burned. Simple.
And if you go around repeating obvious facts about tragic situations without necessity or compassion, people think you’re hateful. Simple!
Sob, sob.
Oh yeah. Broadsheet are learning this lesson for sure.
Wait – what about straight men?
and any/all women?
And what are the numbers of gay/bi-men? what is the rate per person?
2014 data (from http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/new-cases-of-hiv-hit-highest-levels-in-five-years-336964.html)
“The HPSC HIV in Ireland 2014 report shows there were 377 new cases last year, compared to 341 in 2013, a rise of 11%. It is the highest number since 2009. There has been a further 168 cases to date this year.
Within the main groups, the figures report:
•183 new cases among men who have sex with men (MSM), compared to 158 in 2013 (up 16%) — the highest number on record;
•125 infections among heterosexuals, compared to 131 in 2013, and the lowest on record;
•27 cases among people who inject drugs (PWID), compared to 21 in 2013 (up 29%) — the highest since 2009.
[…] report, which also said 58% of heterosexual cases were born in sub-Saharan Africa.
In contrast, 85% of new PWID cases were Irish-born. ”
For 2015: http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0405/779700-sexual-health-figures/
“There was a 33% increase in the number of people who tested positive for HIV in Ireland last year.
The HSE reported 498 notifications of the virus, compared to 377 in 2014.
The significant increase in HIV cases is partly due to an outbreak of HIV among people who inject drugs in Dublin.
There was also a change to the notification procedure for HIV, leading to earlier and more complete notification of all new cases.
The HSE, however, are concerned about an increase in the number of cases identified so far that have occurred among men who have sex with men.”
My God! That is scary. It seems that we need to have those Safe sex ads back on the TV. We’re living in the age of willfull ignorance and stupidity. Also dating apps have incresed the number of one night stands. Shocking increases though
Edit: Safe Sex ads on Youtube, I forgot the youth don’t even watch TV
This is what I wonder; have the campaigns run cold and ignorance prevails….or….going by a similar discussion back in the Broadsheet vaults on the blood donation ban for gay men….are people taking risks for the point of pleasure?
Yes people are taking risks out of ignorance. I would recommend that if anyone has started dating someone they knew nothing about until they met, that both parties get a sexual health checkup and blood test before they sleep together. It might seem scary at first but its neccessary nowadays.
Ignorance is prevailing all across society, look at the whole anti vax movement, they are putting everyone kids at risk by not getting their own vaccinated. And because they never experienced 20% of the child population dying of 19th century diseases they assume that its fine to not choose vaccination. Thats humans for you
That’s terrible, but your maths is a little off; if the figure is fewer than one per day, it can hardly be every 18 hours.
Ah, I working from the graph which accounted only for MSM, and not all cases – apologies.
Yeah huge difference there Rob.
The tweet/caption is what’s causing the confusion. The one new diagnosis every 18 hours is all diagnoses – not just bi/gay men (show in the graph).
The last figure on the graph is 2015. The “one every 18 hours” refers to 2016. My maths could be off here but I think that works out at about 480 new cases for 2016? That’s a HUGE increase.
“Although the number of newly diagnosed HIV cases among people who inject drugs in Portugal is well above the European average, it has declined dramatically over the past decade, falling from 1,016 to 56 between 2001 and 2012. Over the same period, the number of new cases of AIDS among people who inject drugs also decreased, from 568 to 38. A similar, downward trend has been observed for cases of Hepatitis C and B among clients of drug treatment centres, despite an increase in the number of people seeking treatment.”
From: http://www.tdpf.org.uk/blog/drug-decriminalisation-portugal-setting-record-straight
The year previous, 54% of the increases were due to immigration, as was noted yesterday.
Are there stats on that level of detail for this year available yet, before anyone starts shouting digrace or some other crap ?
Anyway… rubber up ffs!
but rubbers are against the teachings of the catholic church…
…but gays wanted and got equality, responsibility comes with equality..
1. Safe injecting rooms to combat needle sharing among addicts.
2. On-going education around safe sex. I still remember the AIDS ads of the 1980s, whole new generation since then has had no big campaign about it.
What’s the status of PrEP/Truvada in Ireland? It’s a pill that (so far) seems to all-but eliminate the transmission of HIV. Just about all gay friends here are on it. It’s a really important new tool in fighting HIV transmission.
That sound like an amazing thing! I never knew it existed. Ireland needs that, sell it in the colleges and universities
It’s very, very expensive at the moment, so it’s done through health insurance over here. I think its going to be available on the NHS soon. Not sure what stage, if any, it is at on the HSE cost/benefit analysis in Ireland.
It’s a daily pill. Think still undergoing study here, but so far out of the thousands that are on it, there are only two or so infections. And those might have extenuating circumstances like missed doses, etc.