"Hollywood" <hollywood@arts-net.net> wrote in message

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Title: HIV risk behaviour patterns, predictors, and sexually transmitted disease prevalence in
the social networks of young men who have sex with men in St Petersburg, Russia.

Author: Amirkhanian YA; Kelly JA; Kirsanova AV; Di Franceisco W; Khoursine RA

Source: International Journal of STD and AIDS. 2006;17:50-56.

Abstract: HIV seroconversions and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are often clustered in
social networks within community populations. The present study was carried out among men who
have sex with men in Russia, where a major HIV epidemic is unfolding, and where social networks
have played a historically important role.

In all, 38 social networks were recruited into the study, and members of all networks (n =
187) completed risk behaviour assessments and were tested for STDs. About 17% of participants
had STDs, and 10% of men had syphilis. Over 64% of men had recent unprotected anal intercourse
(UAI), including 51% who did so with main partners, 30% who did so with casual partners, and
32% who had UAI with multiple male partners.

The strongest predictor of all risk behaviour indicators and STDs was the social network, to
which an individual belonged, supplemented by peer norm perceptions and intentions to practise
safer sex. There was a high level of correspondence in behaviour between the social leader of a
network and its other members. Social networks should be directly targeted in HIV prevention
efforts.

Document Number: 294125

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Hollywood wrote...

Well, that might be true but only because almost all gay men already have
HIV, and the few of us who don't aren't stupid enough to go to bathhouses
and let pieces of trash f.ck us in the a.s.

Perhaps my perception is distorted by the fact that the majority of gay
people I've met are friends of my brother, and since they are all cracked-
out AIDS-infected dog turds, I assume that EVERY gay man on earth is like
that.  The few gays I've known outside my brother's clique of crackwhores
is my gay ex-boss who got busted after seducing his 15yo neighbor boy, a
gay co-worker who also was into the who disco sex trash scene, and an
employee at a restaurant I often patronized who earned extra cash by
blowing truckers.

Yes they are, that's how they wound up HIV+.

He has the free will to infect half the western hemisphere with AIDS, and I
have the free will to elect government officials who will spend my tax money
on more important things than keeping AIDS patients alive longer so they
can infect so many more people who also require my tax money to keep alive.

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