"Gay men in Africa blame President Trump for their recent HIV diagnoses"

[DrLeftover]

Gay men in Africa are blaming President Trump's decision to cut funding for HIV/AIDS prevention for their diagnoses of the virus.

The administration's sweeping cuts to foreign aid have reduced access to medications like Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP, which decreases the risk of contracting HIV by 99 percent.

Emmanuel Cherem, 25, a gay men in Nigeria, told Reuters that he tested positive for HIV two months after losing access to the US-supplied drug.

'I blame myself... Taking care of myself is my first duty as a person,' he said.

'I equally blame the Trump administration because, you know, these things were available, and then, without prior notice, these things were cut off.'

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Gay men in Africa blame Trump for HIV diagnoses after cuts to funding

Gay men in Nigeria said that they tested positive for HIV two months after losing access to a US-supplied drug that drastically decreases the risk of contracting the virus.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[passenger]

 

[KO896]

Blaming someone else for something you can control yourself is idiocy.

 

[duskpire]

No one made them go out and have sex with an infected person. They did that on their own.

 

[Dead2009]

No one made them go out and have sex with an infected person. They did that on their own.

What are the odds of them being taught safe sex over in Nigeria though?

 

[KO896]

What are the odds of them being taught safe sex over in Nigeria though?

Why aren't they being taught? I mean, a lot of them are on the internet

 

[Grungie]

Why aren't they being taught? I mean, a lot of them are on the internet

Just because someone’s on the internet doesn’t mean they are accessing the “correct” information. Just look at all the online communities dedicated to believing conspiracy theories and weird medical myths like EMF sensitivity.

 

[Dead2009]

Why aren't they being taught? I mean, a lot of them are on the internet

Its possible they dont have access to that information.

 

[duskpire]

Its possible they dont have access to that information.

They learned pretty quick about how to contract Ebola in many African countries just by seeing other people get it and pass away from it. If they saw you had symptoms, they back off pretty quick because they know it can kill them.

People in the dark ages over in the UK learned by word of mouth on how to get syphilis. They didn't need the Internet or media to teach them. We have sex education, the CDC & the news here in the US & Canada warning us about Covid & HIV and people still blatantly disregarde the warnings, went out & got infected anyway.

Point is, people talk. Communities warn their people when something nasty is going on. It's just that, not everyone listens.

 

[DrLeftover]

You have to also consider how much false information is being spread by actors working for Russia and China.

Even in the US, you have a politician in a TV commercial saying that Trump is going to take away the healthcare of US Citizens.

While there is a speck of truth to it, it isn't the panic button pushing hysteria she is provoking in the ad.