HEALTH CONCERNS OF HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR
A Voice of the Voiceless Reference
Volume 1
2/3/2014
The pathology of diseases in antiquity is reliant on clues provided in occasional writings, and in
oral and cultural traditions. Lacking any modern scientific understanding of the causes of disease,
ancient peoples integrated their experiences in successfully battling disease into customs adopted to
prevent the disease process. This treatise will focus solely on the historical references to the high
disease risks associated with homosexual behavior and segue into the exploding growth of knowledge of
the significant current risks associated with the completely avoidable behavior.
Ancient written references to the problems associated with homosexual behavior are limited by
both the already existing prohibitions on the behavior adopted by advancing civilization by the time
written language came into existence and the limited number of cultures where homosexuality
developed into a social behavior and those where it did not – 29 of 70 cultures studied. [1] Further, even
among those cultures which chose to engage in the behavior, the practice was considerably limited.
Ancient Greece, for example, often falsely cited as open and accepting of the behavior in actuality only
tolerated some degree of limited pederasty, usually among elites, and was outlawed altogether in the
major city-states such as Io, Sparta and others.[2] The popular disdain for the behavior is made clear in
the statements of well-known contemporaries such as Plato in his essay Laws I [3], Plutarch’s
commentaries on Sparta in Institutis Laconicus[4], and his well-known criticism of Herodotus for
claiming Greeks taught the “vile behavior” to the Persians after their exposure to Greek culture. Thus
hopes of extracting information on such an unpopular behavior are dimmed by the assumed aversion by
anyone to detail it. This would remain an issue until the attempts to popularize the behavior in present
day.
The first references to the behavior come out of ancient Egypt, over 5000 years ago, who
documented many organic sexual diseases as well as citing the psycho-sexual dysfunctions of
homosexuality, necrophilia, bestiality and others.[5] It is interesting to note that all negative health
effects they observed would also have been common knowledge to the Hyksos from which the Jews are
believed to have originated before their legendary exodus from Egypt. This is likely in the way the Jews
adopted health related practices in Levitical Laws which contain within them the condemnation of same
sex contact.[6] From these, Christians also adopted a subset of Levitical Laws as specified by Christ and
the Apostles.[7] Prior to the Judeo-Christian era, Buddhism and its related cultures condemned the
behavior as elaborated in the Vinayas retelling of Buddha’s angry condemnation.[8] None of these
cultures left us with details of health issues from which we can draw a modern medical picture.
Moving forward in history, we not only begin to gain increasing written references but also an
advance toward medicine as a science to provide details. Five hundred years ago circa 1680, John
Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, wrote a play targeting the growing immoral and hedonist lifestyle of
royals and their courts. A character in the play, ‘Sodom or The Quintessence of Debauchery’, makes one
of the early direct associations of homosexuality and disease,
“It doth the procreative End destroy, Which nature gave with pleasure to enjoy. Please her, and she’ll be kind, if
you displease, she turns into corruption and disease.”
A century later, in 1736, graduate of the prestigious medical school Montpillier and leading
French doctor Jean Astruc, utilizing the growing popularity of scientific method, wrote the definitive
treatise of the time on sexually transmitted diseases. He made the first observations of the Herpes
Simplex Virus, along with its greater prevalence among practicing homosexuals,
"It is not possible to identify with certainty the study that first demonstrated the venereal nature of HSV-2
infections in man. In his classical description of genital herpes, published in 1736, Jean Astruc not only classified
the condition as a venereal disease but also noted its increased frequency among practicing homosexuals
(36)." [9]
In his ‘Treatise of the Venereal Disease’, he wrote quite solemnly of the afflictions of the Catamite
(young sodomites), delving into moderate detail on the destruction of the genital-anal structures of both
males and females due to misuse and diseases including resulting cancers. and encouraging more
participants to cease in the behavior, [10]
"It is very irksome, so frequently to repeat such horrid nastiness, but the end for which this work was wrote,
would by no means suffer me to stifle a cause, which to the great scandal of mankind, experience teaches us to be
the too true, and too frequent cause of Venereal disease. Nay honesty itself seemed to require that I should
frequently inculcate this cause, that those, whose liver is fired with so mad a lust, being admonished, may at last
grow wise; and if they are neither to be recalled by a sense of what is natural, nor to be terrified by the
judgments of God, at least being made certain of the evils that arise from this filthy vice, they may at length turn
from it. [p.473]"
By the 20th century, popularity of the practice had largely remained underground and attention shifted
to emotional causes and cures for compulsion toward the behavior including failed attempts to identify
a biological basis for the behavior. [American Psychological Association -11] In the 1970’s, a generic
term was coined to encapsulate the commonly understood bodily damage and disease pathologies of
homosexual behavior by Dr. Henry Kazal and colleagues in the ‘Annals of Clinical and Laboratory
Sciences’. The term, “gay bowel syndrome” included the commonly seen high rates of sexual trauma,
proctitis, hepatitis variants, syphilis, rectal, penile and pharyngeal gonorrhea, chlamydia, chlamydial
trachomatis, shigellosis, campylobacter, giardiasis and a variety of protozoal infections.[12]
Simultaneous to this early collection of data, political activism by devotees of same-sex and pedophilic
practices forced the American Psychological Association to remove the practices as disorders from their
literature and protested the tracking of the medical consequences of homosexual behavior claiming that
the facts of their activities resulted in “un-fair” discrimination against their preferred behavior.[13][14]
Led by pro-homosexuality, pro-pedophilia and bestiality icon Frank Kameny, they were able to have all
but unwanted homosexual and pedophilic attractions removed from the list of disorders. The avoidable
medical consequences of choosing to engage in homosexual behavior, however, are impossible to hide.
In the 1980’s, the first pandemic plague struck same-sex practitioners. Gay Related Immune Deficiency
Syndrome (GRIDS) drew the world’s attention by killing not only droves of homosexuals spreading the
disease worldwide through sexual contact but also killing tens of thousands of unwary heterosexuals
who were recipients of infected needles, blood, organ and sperm donations. Further infectious inroads
were made into the public at large through bi-sexual activity. Mounting fears of a global extinction now
brought significant attention to homosexual behavior. GRIDS was re-labeled generically as AutoImmune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) after activists complained that the specific GRIDS title further
stigmatized their sexual behavior and the appearance of the disease now proliferated into
heterosexuals. In an attempt to stem the spread of HIV infection (the virus which causes AIDS) and
other diseases identified as high risk associations with the behavior into mainstream society, several
major nations including the United States performed studies concluding the necessity to ban anyone
engaging in the behavior from eligibility to donate blood, organs or sperm.[15] Regardless, deaths
continued globally due to the impossibility of 100% verifiable testing and infected homosexuals skirting
the ban.[16][17][18][19][20]
By the 1990’s, homosexual practitioners were drawing even more attention to themselves in a political
push to establish themselves as a separate class of people who needed special privileges, protections
and demanded the right to redefine marriage as the union of any two people, rather than a public
institution to assist men and women in creating and rearing families, in a bid for publicly provided
benefits. The effort has generated considerable attention to dissecting the behavior and shone new
light on its medical consequences. In 2005, a group of Canadian doctors from various specialties warned
the Canadian parliament that embracing and legalizing the behavior would be a detriment to public
health citing the fact that the diseases and disease rates associated with the behavior were “rare or
even unknown in the heterosexual population”. [21] The doctors warned of accelerating rates of head,
neck and reproductive cancers, Chlamydia trachomatis, Cryptosporidium, Giardia lamblia, Herpes
simplex virus, HIV infection, Human papilloma virus, Isospora belli, Microsporidia, Gonorrhoea, Syphilis,
Hepatitis B and C and others. Warnings were not heeded to the detriment of the country
[22][23][24][25], the legislation passed owing to political winds, allowing pseudo-marriages with several
other countries following suit with similar consequences. Six years earlier, the Netherlands was the first
nation to open up permissiveness of the behavior and allow so-called ‘gay marriages’. They too have
suffered dramatically rising infectious disease rates.[26][27] In 2013, the Australian Medical Board
cleared doctors to continue to express the opinion that homosexuality was a public health risk.[28]
Global initiatives to combat the AIDS pandemic have had some effect, largely among practicing
heterosexuals. Improved drugs have shown to extend the life of HIV infected individuals to a degree
along with pushes towards greater abstinence and therapeutics to address issues with compulsive
homosexual desire to reduce or completely normalize their sexual behaviors. The American
Psychological Association specifies guidelines on therapeutic treatment towards sexual conversion to
heteronormative behaviors.[29] Avoidance of the unnecessary behavior is the surest guarantee of
public health.
AIDS
The preference of HIV infection for homosexual contact is apparent in the staggering rates of
infection for homosexuals and as demonstrated in medical analysis. In 2010, the Universities of
Washington and New York released the results of a study in ‘Sexually Transmitted Infections Journal’
stating, “We found that even if gay men behave the same way heterosexuals do – in terms of sexual
partner numbers – gay men would still have a huge HIV epidemic.”[30]
The US government website AIDS.GOV states that the Centers for Disease Control reports, "CDC
estimates that MSM [men who have sex with men] account for just 2% of the U.S. male population aged
13 and older, but accounted for more than 50% of all new HIV infections annually from 2006 to 2009. In
2010, MSM accounted for 61% of HIV diagnoses."[31] In other locations, the rates vary from slightly
better to considerably worse depending on regional affluence and acceptance of the behavior. The
French National Institute for Public Health, in 2010, issued a press release stating that HIV infections
among practicing homosexuals was “200 times higher in gay men”.[32] Claims that there is a way to
engage in homosexuality ‘safely’ are undermined by the fact that the structural damage done by
misusing the design of the body is unavoidable, the fact that not all diseases prolific among homosexuals
are transmitted the same way and the false notion that condom use is the solution to these problems,
as the CDC warns, "Consistent and correct use of the male latex condom reduces the risk of sexually
transmitted disease (STD) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission. However, condom use
cannot provide absolute protection against any STD."[33] Less affluent regions such as Africa which
suffer high rates of HIV infection are primarily due to poor blood handling practices, injected drug abuse
and re-use of infected blood. Analysis published in the ‘Journal of STD and AIDS’ has shown that less
than 35% of HIV in Africa is transmitted sexually.[34] Recent psychological studies indicate infection
rates may likely be exacerbated by personality and compulsive disorders when co-morbid with
homosexual compulsion.[35][36] Additional discoveries have further demonstrated the inescapable
preference of HIV infection for homosexual contact including developing strains of increasingly drug
resistance mutations of HIV within homosexual communities [36] and the Centers for Disease Control
discovery that while circumcision can reduce HIV transmission among heterosexual practitioners, it does
nothing to reduce infection rates among males choosing to engage in homosexual behavior.[37]
UNAIDS 2012 international report highlights the remarkable preference of HIV for MSM [38]:
(Black circle = homosexually acquired HIV; Red circle = HIV in the general population):
Continued…
Worsening factors for homosexually acquired AIDS onset include its unexplained higher correlation with
malignant Karposi’s Sarcoma. "The risk was greatest in homosexual and bisexual men. In fact, 20 of
every 100 homosexual men with AIDS developed KS [Karposi Sarcoma], whereas 3 in every 100 people
who’d contracted HIV through a blood transfusion [or heterosexually] had KS. This difference was much
greater than would be expected by chance."[39]
Kaposi’s Sarcoma
New research has also shown that antiretroviral drugs are failing to suppress the disease transmission
between homosexual males. Researchers at Boston University Medical Center showed that despite
taking Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART), HIV transmission is not completely suppressed in
MSM.[40][41]
Dying Anyway
Most daunting of all are reports led by Gladstone Institute researchers and others that HIV infected
homosexuals successfully stemming the onset of AIDS through use of antiretroviral drugs are aging
prematurely and dying younger from cancer or heart disease instead,
"And then there was monumental success: new drugs to fight the virus and lift the death sentence of HIV
infection. With the virus under control in their bodies, patients were healthy and active. They had
decades of living ahead of them.
"Now they're coming back," he said.
More than a decade after the first truly successful AIDS drugs became available, a new image of HIV is
emerging: People with the virus appear to be aging prematurely. After years of feeling healthy and
recharged with the new drugs, they're suddenly slowing down not from the effects of AIDS, but from old
age - a decade or two earlier than their non-infected peers.
"When we have [young] clients passing away now, it's from cancer or heart disease," Roy said. "It used
to be AIDS."[41]
HIV
AIDS
BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
Unlike the AIDS virus, high rates of bacterial infections strike both WSW [women who have sex with
women] and MSM, most notable among men, highly drug resistant forms of the gonorrhea, chlamydia
and recent deadly outbreaks of bacterial meningitis.
Bacterial Vaginosis
Bacterial Vaginosis
Women who identified as lesbians have a 2.5-fold increased likelihood of BV [bacterial vaginosis]
compared with heterosexual women.[42] Further, bacterial vaginosis, harmless to men, has mutated to
a sexually transmitted disease between women having sexual contact with one another.[44] The
National Women’s Health Information Center states,
"It is a common misconception that bacterial infections are linked to heterosexual sex. Many recent
initiatives focus on health information for lesbian and bisexual women. (1,2,3)........The occurrence of
bacterial imbalance/infection is several times the rate in a heterosexual population.”[43]
In 1995, researchers at the New York Medical Center had identified Bacterial Vaginosis as mutating to a
sexually transmitted disease between women choosing lesbianism.[44]
Chlamydia
Chlamydia trachomatis infections are steadily increasing women who have sex with women. Women
who have sex with women have maintained increasing rates of infection in analysis spanning 19972005.[45]
C. Trachomatis
Chlamydia is an STD which can cause genital and rectal burning and pain. In women, it can also affect
the liver with inflammation. While increasing in WSW, non-LGV chlamydia is consistently common
among MSM but increasing at a lower rate than women.[45] In women, the disease can spread into the
uterus or fallopian tubes resulting in pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). Both acute and asymptomatic
infection can lead to chronic pelvic pain, tubal factor infertility and potentially fatal ectopic
pregnancy.[46][47][48]
MRSA
In 2008, Centers for Disease Control researchers released a statement that a new, highly
antibiotic resistant form of the flesh eating disease MRSA was striking homosexuals on both US
coasts.[49][50][51][52][53]
MRSA
However, a backlash from the gay community against the CDC for once again “stigmatizing” their
behavior forced the CDC to downplay the issue. Regardless, the CDC and other medical agencies
continue to report the higher prevalence of MRSA among those in the medical field, some in close
contact environments and men engaging in homosexuality – with no reported outbreaks resulting from
those engaging in heteronormative sexual behavior.[54][55]
MRSA necrotic leg
MRSA necrotic hand
Shigellosis
Shigellosis is a virulent bacterial disease that is caused by a strain of bacteria of the genus
Shigella. Outbreaks typically occur in areas of overcrowding due to unhygienic conditions or where
sanitation is poor such as jails, mental hospitals, refugee camps, daycares and among homosexual men.
Outbreaks occur anywhere globally among MSM and are a virulent enteric infection.[56] Kazal cited it
as part of Gay Bowel Syndrome though it was not likely new among doctors treating homosexuals and it
continues to be a major problem globally today. [57] Mortality rates vary depending on quality of care.
Shigellosis
Shigella intestinal necrosis
Shigella
Bacterial Meningitis
In late 2012, the New York City health department alerted local doctors of an outbreak of deadly
bacterial meningitis among homosexual men which had already proved fatal. [58] The fatal outbreak
among MSM, however, extended well beyond New York.
B. Meningitis
Bacterial Meningitis is a very serious infection of various strains which can strike at any age group
through direct contact with the bacteria. It is not as easily spread as the common cold or flu, typically
requiring spread through secretions from person to person. Attacking the brain and spine, the disease
can cause death, brain damage, and hearing loss among others. Long-term effects include multiple limb
amputations, kidney damage and more. The new outbreaks of BM occurring in men having sex with
men are of sero-groups B and C. Overall, the fatality rate is around 10%, mostly among sero-group
C.[59] No heterosexually transmitted outbreaks have been reported.
B. Meningitis
Lymphogranuloma Venereum (LGV)
(LGV) is a rare sexually transmitted disease caused by Chlamydia trachomatis. LGV is endemic in
certain poor areas of Africa, Southeast Asia, India, the Caribbean, and South America. It is rare in
industrialized countries, but in the last 10 years increasing outbreaks in North America, Europe, and the
United Kingdom among men who have sex with men (MSM) are being reported.[60]
LGV
LGV is a genital ulcer disease presenting with genital papules, ulcers, enlarged or deformed lymph nodes
and proctocolitis among homosexual males. Among those, rectal pain, discharge and bleeding are
typically present.[61][62] Untreated, LVG will lead to disfiguring ulcerations and enlargement of the
genitals and likely obstruction of the lymph nodes. The infection can come and disappear recurring in
three worsening stages. Since 2003, however, the emergence of documented LGV infections, mostly
among MSM, and a few women, has prompted increased surveillance and reporting of this disease in
developed countries.[63][64]
LGV penile ulceration
LGV is rarely fatal though disfiguring if untreated. Most cases in Europe and North America continue to
have been identified among white, frequently HIV-positive MSM patients presenting with proctitis.
[65][66][67][68]
Helicobacter Species
Helicobacter Cinaedi was first isolated in 1984 in rectal swabs from male homosexuals, most of
whom were immunocompromised.[69] Helicobacter cinaedi is found normally in the intestinal flora of
hamsters.[70] Infection can cause bacteraemia, diarrhea and focal colonic lesions in humans. Cellulitis
and arthritis is also seen in a high percentage of patients.
H. Cinaedi
Helicobacter Fennelliae is also a recently identified Heliobacter species associated with
homosexual behavior and has been reported to cause bacteremia, enteritis, and proctocolitis in
homosexual men with or without human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.[71]
H. Fennelliae
Typhoid
In 2001, the Centers for Disease Control documented the first case of sexually transmitted
typhoid.[72] It was transmitted homosexually. Typhoid is marked by high fever, weakness, headache
and, in some cases, flat, red spots on the skin. Confusion, delirium, intestinal perforation, and death
may occur in severe cases with a fatality rate between 12% and 30% depending on treatment. A single
male passed the infection to seven partners.[73]
Typhoid
[1] Dr. Neil Whitehead and Briar Whitehead state regarding various cultures: "If homosexuality were significantly
influenced by genes, it would appear in every culture, but in twenty-nine of seventy-nine cultures surveyed by Ford
and Beach in 1952, homosexuality was rare or absent."'My Genes Made Me Do it - A Scientific Look at Sexual
Orientation" by Dr Neil Whitehead Ph.D and Briar Whitehead Ph.D.
[2] "It appears extremely likely that homosexuality of any kind was confined to the prosperous and aristocratic
levels of ancient society. The masses of peasants and artisans were probably scarcely affected by habits of this
kind, which seem to have been associated with a sort of snobbery. The available texts deal mainly with the leisured
nobility of Athens. But they may give the impression that pederasty was practiced by the entire nation. The
subject, however, of the comedy by Aristophanes entitled Lysistrata suggests that homosexuality was hardly
rampant among the people at large. It would be an error to think so. ... There was nothing particularly 'Greek'
about homosexual feeling. The nation in antiquity was by no means alone in providing illustrations of inversion,...
In the pre-Christian era, the case of Sodom is well known. Nor were the Persians, the Etruscans, the Celts or the
Romans ignorant of homosexuality. But its existence among these peoples was kept more or less secret on account
of the discredit which attached to it. But in Greece, though pederasty was forbidden by law in most cities, it had
become so fashionable (among the artists and aristocrats) that no one troubled to conceal it." ~ (Dr. Robert
Flaceliere, Scholar of Classical Greek, Chair of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Paris)
[3] "As in the human body, the regimen which does good in one way does harm in another; and we can hardly say
that any one course of treatment is adapted to a particular constitution. Now the gymnasia and common meals do
a great deal of good, and yet they are a source of evil in civil troubles; as is shown in the case of the Milesian, and
Boeotian, and Thurian youth, among whom these institutions seem always to have had a tendency to degrade the
ancient and natural custom of love below the level, not only of man, but of the beasts. The charge may be fairly
brought against your cities above all others, and is true also of most other states which especially cultivate
gymnastics. Whether such matters are to be regarded jestingly or seriously, I think that the pleasure is to be
deemed natural which arises out of the intercourse between men and women; but that the intercourse of men
with men, or of women with women, is contrary to nature, and that the bold attempt was originally due to
unbridled lust." ~ Plato (Laws I)
[4] "WITH them, it was permitted, to place a particular Affection upon young Lads, for the good Dispositions and
Endowments of the Mind appearing in them: but looked upon as highly dishonorouable, to transfer this Love from
the Mind to the Body by any indecent Caresses. And whosoever was accused of embracing them lewdly, was held
Infamous, as long as he lived." ~ Plutarch, in Institutis Laconicis. p. 237.
[5] "In addition to the organic sexual disorders, ancient Egyptians recorded some of the psychosexual disorders,
homosexuality, necrophilia, bestiality, incest and gender identity disorders [2]."
'The urology of Pharaonic Egypt'
Urology and Nephrology Center, Mansoura University, and *Department of Psychiatry, Cairo University, Egypt
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1464-410x.1999.00313.x/pdf
[6] Leviticus 18:22
[7] Romans 1:26-27: "For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the
natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their
lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their
error which was due."
[8] The Blessed One [Buddha] then ordered the monks, "Behold monks. a pandaka (sexual deviant/homosexual) is
one who is not to be ordained. Monks should not give them ordination and those who have been ordained must
be made to disrobe" (Vinaya, Vol. 4, pp. 141-142).
[9] Human Cervical Cancer as a Venereal Disease (Irving I. Kessler 1976)
http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/36/2_Part_2/783.full.pdf
[10] A Treatise of the Venereal Disease, Written originally in Latin by John Astruc, And now translated into English
by William Barrowby, London, 1737 (2 vols)
Rictor Norton (Ed.), "Venereal Disease in Catamites," Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook.
8 October 2008 http://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/1737astr.htm
[11] "There is no consensus among scientists about the exact reasons that an individual develops a heterosexual,
bisexual, gay, or lesbian orientation. Although much research has examined the possible genetic, hormonal,
developmental, social, and cultural influences on sexual orientation, no findings have emerged that permit
scientists to conclude that sexual orientation is determined by any particular factor or factors."
American Psychological Association
'A Better Understanding Of Sexual Orientation and Homosexuality'
http://www.apa.org/topics/sexuality/sorientation.pdf
[12] Kazal HL, Sohn N, Carrasco JI, Robilotti JG, Delaney WE (1976). "The gay bowel syndrome: clinico-pathologic
correlation in 260 cases". Ann. Clin. Lab. Sci. 6 (2): 184–92. PMID 946385
[13] Scarce, Michael (1999). Smearing the Queer: Medical Bias in the Health Care of Gay Men. Routledge. p. 13.
ISBN 1-56023-926-3.
[14] "… it is the psychiatrists who have experienced the full rage of the homosexual activists. Over the past two
years, gay-lib organizations have repeatedly disrupted medical meetings, and three months ago – in the
movements most aggressive demonstration so far – a group of 30 militants broke into a meeting of the American
Psychiatric Association in Washington, where they turned the staid proceedings into near chaos for twenty
minutes. ‘We are here to denounce your authority to call us sick or mentally disordered,’ shouted the group’s
leader, Dr. Franklin Kameny, while the 2,000 shocked psychiatrists looked on in disbelief. ‘For us, as homosexuals,
your profession is the enemy incarnate. We demand that psychiatrists treat us as human beings, not as patients to
be cured!" ~ Newsweek Magazine, August 1971.
[15] The Food and Drug Administration has joined the US Medical Board and medical boards around the globe in
banning sperm, blood and organ donations from those choosing to engage in homosexuality due to endemically
high rates of hepatitis, HIV and other diseases.
November 21st, 2012
http://insidefirst.me/2012/11/21/a-ban-on-gay-sperm-donors/#more-903
[16] CDC: HIV-tainted Blood From Missouri Infects Colorado Man
October 22, 2010
"The agency described the donor only as being in his 40s and someone who concealed from those collecting the
donated blood the fact that he had had anonymous sex with men and women while married."
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2010/10/22/cdc-donated-hiv-tainted-blood-infects-colorado-man/
[17] "the donor said he had unprotected sex with one male partner in the year before the donation, including the
time between his initial evaluation and the transplant surgery."
"Donors should also be counseled to avoid behaviors that place them at risk of acquiring HIV because even the
most sensitive HIV test can miss recent infections."
HIV Infection Passed Via Donated Kidney: U.S. Report
Thu Mar 17, 2011
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/sexual-and-reproductive-health/articles/2011/03/17/hivinfection-passed-via-donated-kidney-us-report
[18] AIDS Tainted Blood Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs
Alliance for Human Research Protection
Bayer Allows Tainted Blood Sales
22 May 2003
http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/0503/22.php
[19] Chinese hospitals to pay compensation to thousands infected with HIV-tainted blood
12/06/2006
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=7942
[20] "The report further stated that as of April 2011, there are 171 new HIV Ab sero-positive individuals....All
acquired the infection through homosexual contact."
Philippines: '27% of blood donations positive of HIV'
July 31, 2011
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/local-news/2011/07/31/27-blood-donations-positive-hiv-170083
[21] Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ a Health Risk Doctors Warn Parliamentarians
February 17, 2005
"The document, signed by doctors in different disciplines from family medicine, dermatology and neurology, warns
that sex as practiced by most, has a large number of diseases associated with it, “many of which are rare or even
unknown in the heterosexual population” as: head, neck and reproductive cancers, Chlamydia trachomatis,
Cryptosporidium, Giardia lamblia, Herpes simplex virus, HIV, Human papilloma virus, Isospora belli, Microsporidia,
Gonorrhoea, Syphilis, Hepatitis B and C and others."
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/feb/05021709.html
[22] Canada Syphilis Montreal: 11 cases declared in 2001, 37 cases in 2002 and 103 in 2003; up to 90% of cases occurred in
MSM.Ottawa: 8 cases declared in 2001 and 16 cases in 2002; 75% of all cases occurred in MSM.Toronto: 30 cases
declared in 2001, 179 cases in 2002, 243 in 2003; the majority of cases occurred in men, 91% of whom had sex
with other men.Vancouver: 127 cases declared in 1999, 186 cases in 2002 and an estimated 250 cases in 2003.
Those primarily affected are injection drug users and sex trade workers; during recent months, the outbreak has
picked up speed among MSM. Winnipeg: In early 2003, an outbreak of 15 cases of infectious primary and
secondary syphilis occurred in 8 women and 7 heterosexual men aged 30 to 60. Two cases and two of the sexual
partners were linked to the sex trade. * "Syphilis Is Back" campaign, sponsored by the AIDS Committee of Ottawa
and Pink Triangle Services in partnership with the AIDS Committee of Toronto and Action Séro Zéro. Created and
produced by Boomstone Entertainment Inc.
[23] "Gay and bisexual men, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) accounted for the majority of positive
HIV test reports in Toronto, Ontario, and Canada between 1985 and 2008. During this period, they accounted for
72.2% of all positive HIV test reports in Toronto, 66% of all test reports in Ontario, and 57.8% of test reports in
Canada overall. "
November 2010
http://www.actoronto.org/home.nsf/pages/hivaidsstatsglance
[24] Mode of HIV Transmission in Ontario 1985 – 2008
Gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) 64.5%
Injection Drug Users (IDU) 7.6%
Heterosexual contact 11.1%
'HIV and AIDS Statistics - Ontario'
August 2010
http://www.actoronto.org/home.nsf/pages/hivaidsstatsont
[25] "The New Brunswick Health Department has issued a warning that syphilis is spreading at an increasing rate
among the province’s homosexuals and that strategies to prevent infection and reduce risk of transmission by
infected individuals seem to be ineffective."
Feb 28, 2012
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/syphilis-infections-rising-dramatically-among-new-brunswick-homosexuals
[26] "Since 2000, [Dutch] consultations at STI clinics has increased by 29%, and the number of HIV diagnoses by
120%. Also since 2000, there has been a large increase of 153% in the number of early syphilis cases diagnosed
mainly due to a 340% increase in MSM" [men who have sex with men]
16 February 2006
http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=2901
[27] "SHM director Frank de Wolf says he is shocked by the new figures..."
'HIV infection rate rises among Dutch gay men'
22 November 2010
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