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MSM Able to Use Home HIV Tests to Screen Sex Partners and Lower Risk

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Jeton Ademaj

Mitch u go where most can never follow, then u whine that u stand alone. the testing kit does NOT include chloroform or a hammer, taking the test is VOLUNTARY. poz ppl will never have the power to declare what method neg ppl may use to avoid PERCEIVED sexual risk...ACTING UP works for access to meds n funding, but it FAILS BITTERLY in persuading neg ppl to accept arguments such as urs. wanna screech about EVERY new prevention tool that's NOT condoms? fine...but the world has moved past ur noise.

September 18, 2012 Harlem, NYC

Mitch

Frederick, you ask what is " the problem". I can name half a dozen problems. The biggest is my concern for those who learn their status from this type of situation. The whole scenario literally presumes that the well being of newly DX'd are less important than the sexual options of the negative. It's a total slap in the face to everyone of us, but this hits some of our most vulnerable hardest. Ending AIDS should not come through ending the lives, dignity or equality of those with AIDS.

September 14, 2012

Mitch

You're missing the point as always Jeton. I'm not "selling nondisclosure". I'm advocating equal treatment. "Disclosure" is PC for segregation. It isolates HIV as a special virus, more a social label than a disease. Its become leprosy! No one in their right mind would expect a casual partner to tell them if they had any other STD, even if it was fatal. The fact that you see this as "selling nondisclosure" rather than treating people with HIV like humans shows that you're blind to this.

September 14, 2012

Frederick Wright

Mitch, I am not sure where all the deep fear is coming from and is it all about being a victim and not getting your orgainizism. The debate is over concerning IN HOME SCREENING KITS, freely and openly marketed in the USA. Now the debate is focused on the community and how we treat one another or will Men grow up and be Men of HONOR and Intergty to learn how to love one another.Mitch what is realy the problem,look deep inside and know you are worth being loved,lets END AIDS together.Canweagree

September 13, 2012 Coachelly

Jeton Ademaj

Mitch, 5 weeks for a weak attack? u rebutted exactly nothing i wrote, nor have u thwarted the growing market for private testing. guess what? the complete contempt so many gay men show for each other reaches a breaking point where HIV-disclosure is concerned, full stop. spare me ur whining, instead go try n sell non-disclosure to the world. "but ur just a trick, why should i tell u anything?". guys like u r only capable of bestowing a credibility deficit on all poz ppl...n thus, home testing!

September 12, 2012 Harlem, NYC

Mitch

Jeton, you intentionally conflate the issues of disclosure and prevention. I'm sure even [you don't] believe they're one and the same. Disclosure is BS, and the height of seronegative selfishness. It literally presumes that the purpose of a test is not for personal health, but for quarantine, and acts on the economically ludicrous notion that strangers act out of concern for other strangers. It doesn't allay paranoia any more than the mandatory tattoos you probably also enrose

September 10, 2012

Nvhorseman

My concern, should someone take this test and the results are an accurate "positive" or a "false positive" there are many issues that need addressing. After the possible "high" of the night that may or may not have led to unsafe sex, the results of the test could send someone over the edge when they sober in the morning. Were testing to be done at a clinic psych services or prophylaxis like PREP could be offered. What about tests for incurable "clap", HPV (anal cancer) HVB/C-They can kill too.

August 22, 2012 Reno, NV.

Alex Supertramp

... and what about the suicides?

August 22, 2012

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