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I'm a 50 year old black male - positive for 14 years. I know first hand that many black men are not honest about their status and readily engage in unsafe sex.
This study has many holes. I am not quite sure that the participants in this study are being forthright when asked these very sensitive and at times humiliating questions. There is only way to get HIV; exhanging bodily fluids with a partner who is positive. The higher the viral load the greater the chance one can get infected.
JJ and TA I think both of you in your statments show a lack of compassion and judgement for the statements of who cares,or just let them kill them selves and the innocent people in their path. Plus it is clear that you men are afraid of debating the truth within this need to understand or stand tallier and more pure than the DL or MSM or Just People that are in need of help. I question your man hood and courage for you want even use your real name. Whats up Dudes where the hate coming from.
Black men in the surveys obviously lie. That DL shit should really stop. Its totally ignorant mentality. Its also a killer. And enough spending government money studying all this. They lie. And STOP with the postcards about "education" and the "education classes" that teach them how to use a condom and then gives them free movie passes and MTA subway cards, etc etc. The programs are a waste. So are those who "teach" these classes!
I agree wholeheartedly with David in Philadelphia. The facts are there for all of us. There is no "stigma" or "racism" associated with this. It is plain & simple; black men f*&k and we don't use condoms. It's a choice not a condemnation.
Mr. Millet, Well done, I liked what this article said, I've also shared it on twitter. And will post it to our CNY Connections site as well. I was looking at new articles, when I came across your name. Of course I had to read on, I wondered why I hadn't heard back when I emailed you at .who lol. It's great you are out there doing work such as this, there is a long road still to travel on this topic. Be well and it's great I know where to find you now lol. Thank you, John Wikiera
I am a 55-year-old African-American man. Positive since the beginning of the epidemic.
What I have noticed, chatting with Black men online is that MANY simply do not recognize the term POZ.
I state upfront that I am positive and frankly, I was stunned at the amount of "negative" Black men that hit on me.
I began to understand that the term, "poz" was not clear to many Black folks. I take extra care to say and write, HIV+ to make sure we're all on the same page.
Frederick Wright
JT, I think you are right for most do not want to give up the little bit of seemly love that they get form sex. I wondering if the new In Home Rapid HIV screening Kits are going to help these men face manhood with more honor and respect for themselves and thier communities? These Kits are proposed to be on sale to all in the public in the next couple of months.It is going to be hard for unkown HIVERs and HIV men to hide from this HIV. Maybe it will help break some of the chains of stigma too.
September 7, 2012 • Coachella Valley