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Ann

I agree with you Shawn and have for many years now. Sexually speaking, the ONLY true risk group is that group of people who have unprotected intercourse with persons of unknown or positive hiv status. Instead of asking about MSM activities, they should say something along the lines of, "have you ever had unprotected anal or vaginal intercourse with a person who you are not in a monogamous relationship with and/or who you have not tested negative for hiv together with." For people who can answer, "not within the last three months or more", a rapid test could be offered to settle the matter there and then. This would have the added bonus of encouraging people to test, as well as including people for blood donation who might have otherwise been excluded when taking the true risk group into account. But dude, I'm NOT going to wear matching head/wrist bands! Ann

May 7, 2009