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Old 26-07-2022, 20:17   #46
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When did drug fuelled raves start to become places for everyone to have sex with each other?

While chemsex may be a thing and the monkeypox spread amongst this particular group fast (like it did with aids incidentally), drugs and the rave side of things are not really a factor in anything. No more than alcohol helping drunk people get laid.
With AIDS, iirc it was the "bathhouses" in San Francisco that were a factor. With monkeypox the outbreak in Spain has been traced back to an adult sauna.
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Advice for general cleaning in sex-on-premises venues
Monkeypox can spread through close physical contact, such as kissing, skin-to-skin and sex. It is also possible that sharing items such as bedding and towels can pass the infection from one person to another.
The people who were getting HIV/AIDs tended to be the same one that were routinely also getting the likes of Syphilis and Gonorrhoea.
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It has not previously been described as a sexually transmitted infection, but it can be passed on by close contact.
Guidance is advising anyone with the virus to abstain from sex while they have symptoms.
While there is currently no available evidence that monkeypox can be spread in sexual fluids, people confirmed to have the virus are advised to use condoms for eight weeks after infection as a precaution.
Zero chance of that happening.
Before PrEP.
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A third of gay men who know they are HIV positive are still having unprotected sex, a study suggests.
The Medical Research Council, which questioned 3,500 gay men, also found 40% of the 300 who tested positive for HIV did not know they were infected.
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Old 27-07-2022, 17:38   #47
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Zero chance of that happening.
Before PrEP.
Just to point out those stats are way out of date and also not reflective of HIV transmission or treatment levels in the UK.

https://www.nat.org.uk/about-hiv/hiv-statistics

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In 2019, it was estimated that there are 105,200 people living with HIV in the UK.
94% of these people are diagnosed, and therefore know that they have HIV. This means that around 1 in 16 people living with HIV in the UK do not know that they have the virus.
98% of people diagnosed with HIV in the UK are on treatment, and 97% of those on treatment are virally suppressed which means they can’t pass the virus on. Of all the people living with HIV in the UK, 89% are virally suppressed.
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The proportion of people accessing HIV care in 2019 who acquired HIV transmission through heterosexual sex (45,445 - 46.1%) is very similar to the proportion of people who acquired HIV through sex between men (45,771 - 46.4%).
However to manage to get the testing and treatment levels to the same for other diseases like Monkeypox takes money and available treatment options. As yet it's extremely difficult to get pre-infection treatment for Monkeypox in the UK and many other countries.
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Old 27-07-2022, 18:46   #48
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Just to point out those stats are way out of date and also not reflective of HIV transmission or treatment levels in the UK.

https://www.nat.org.uk/about-hiv/hiv-statistics




However to manage to get the testing and treatment levels to the same for other diseases like Monkeypox takes money and available treatment options. As yet it's extremely difficult to get pre-infection treatment for Monkeypox in the UK and many other countries.
They are indicative of behaviour without PrEP or any sort of treatment. Just as cures for Syphilis and Gonorrhoea helped promote the spread of HIV/AIDS.

The current medical advice is to refrain, the study shows that won't happen.
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BREAKING: Spain reporting on first MonkeyPox related death in Europe:

https://news.sky.com/story/spain-con...break-12661601
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