29% Of Bangkok's Gay Men Are HIV+

[pdogg]

I have no idea of the methodology or reliability of this study.  I also have no idea if ladyboys are considered gay men pertaining to this study.

 

But I would think if 29% of gay men in Bangkok have HIV then the percentage should be higher for sex workers (unless sex workers use condoms more often than the general population.

 

Where your raincoat gents!  According to this research it's always rainy season in Bangkok.     

 

 

June 28, 2013

 

Cases of HIV and syphilis among gay men in Bangkok are on the rise, according to data released by US and Thai health authorities on Friday. 

 

Syphilis cases among gay men more than doubled from five percent in 2005 to 12.5 percent in 2011, said the report in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

 

Meanwhile, the annual prevalence of HIV also rose "significantly," from 24.5 percent in 2005 to 29.4 percent in 2011 among men who have sex with men (MSM), it said.

 

"These data show ongoing and increasing epidemics of HIV and syphilis infection among MSM in Bangkok," said the report.

 

The data came from the Silom Community Clinic, located in a central Bangkok hospital and near entertainment venues for gay men.

 

The clinic was founded in 2005 by a joint collaboration between the Thailand Ministry of Public Health and the US CDC, offering free and confidential tests in an environment "receptive to the health and concerns of the MSM community."

 

When the team first began collecting data about HIV infections in gay men in Bangkok in 2003, the HIV prevalence was 17 percent.

 

By 2005 the HIV prevalence in that group had risen to 28 percent, and now it is around 30 percent, said the report.

 

The data reported by the CDC on Friday was based only on patients who went to the Silom Community Clinic and requested a test for sexually transmitted infection (STI), and may not be representative of the wider gay population in Thailand, the study noted.

 

Researchers also cautioned that patients who seek out tests and retests tend to engage in higher levels of risky behavior such as anal sex without a condom, and so the findings may be skewed upward.

 

However, the data underscore "the urgent need for preventive interventions to reduce the spread of HIV and STI in this population," the study said.

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-hiv-syphilis-gay-men-bangkok.html

[Tomcat]

People buy a Euro lottery ticket with practically no chance of scooping the top prize, around one in gadzillion, but still think they have a chance. So even if the rate for HIV among LBs say was just 5% its still pretty bad, probably around the same chance as getting a  Blackjack..in other words theres no good news whatever the odds

 

I think in BKK i read somewhere that the rate for LBs was 18% amongst hookers .. some kind of a study was done some years back.. In other words a throw of the dice and in many cases loaded ( you seen them Bareback LB sites)

[rocconung]

A lot of barebacking scene , seen in porn site with same actor different LB.

 

and a lot of LB I met , have experienced barbaking with falang or her boyfriend.

 

 most of them never had a medical check for STD and HIV. 

 

This 's info is mean for me how to manage the risk with LB or GG from now on.

[rxpharm]

These statistics only reinforces the need for safer sex regardless of whether you partake in the p4p scene or casual encounters. Condoms are a must have.

[Lefty]

If you believe HIV causes AIDs, you owe it to yourself to watch this

 

http://youtu.be/BwgmzbnckII

[azza33]

Luckily i'm not gay

[Lefty]

Have not seen this one yet, but it could be interesting too.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT3b_0doyRk

[Lefty]

Luckily i'm not gay

You mean today you are sad, rather than gay? Or you never find yourself feeling gay? Perhaps you suffer from depression 

[azza33]

You mean today you are sad, rather than gay? Or you never find yourself feeling gay? Perhaps you suffer from depression 

 

Well... now you got me really confused