Healthcare

Lesbian case refusal risks diagnosis of prejudice

Article published on February 7, 2009 in Sun Media by Christina Spencer

About 30 years ago, gay men who contracted a mysterious disease called AIDS sometimes faced particularly cruel discrimination. "In those days, you would have found people dying of AIDS in hospital, and you would find nurses effectively telling them this is what you deserve for your lifestyle," says Udo Schuklenk, Ontario research chairman in bioethics [...]

Gay men likely to be highly sexually experienced before willing to obtain HPV vaccine

Article published on January 23, 2009 in Aidsmap by Michael Carter

Sorted in Dossiers, Healthcare

Gay men will have a high level of sexual experience before they are willing to disclose their sexuality to healthcare providers so they can obtain a vaccine for human papilloma virus, an Australian study published in the online edition of Sexually Transmitted Infections has shown. This could mean that many gay men would already have [...]

New test designed to detect anal cancer in gay men

Article published on November 7, 2008 in Nursing Times

Sorted in Dossiers, Healthcare

British scientists have developed a new test to detect early signs of anal cancer. The disease is estimated to affect 37 per 100,000 gay men, a similar rate to cervical cancer in women before the introduction of the smear test. For gay men who are HIV-positive, the incidence is about twice as great – around [...]

Why Some With HIV Never Get AIDS Even Without Treatment

Article published on October 30, 2008 in Scientific blogging

Sorted in Dossiers, AIDS/HIV, Healthcare

Researchers at Johns Hopkins say they have compelling evidence that some people with HIV who for years and even decades show extremely low levels of the virus in their blood never progress to full-blown AIDS and remain symptom free even without treatment, probably do so because of the strength of their immune systems, not any [...]

Doctor, when will you stop assuming that we’re heterosexual?

Article published on September 17, 2008 in AlteHeroes by Julie-Maude Beauchesne

Sorted in Dossiers, Homophobia and transphobia, Healthcare

Directive was sent this week to all Canadian doctors: Not all your patients are heterosexual! Bravo! A worthy awareness on the part of paediatricians! So now chances are that our doctor will not assume us to be sexually inclined towards the opposite sex.