Yes, it's a video. Tennessee is about to have a major HIV problem on its hands! Leave it to Republicans to grab federal funds earmarked for HIV treatment and prevention and redirect them to other spending priorities. Public health is at risk! Republicans won't admit it until it blows up in their faces in a few years when Tennessee will be hit with an HIV epidemic. We should be eradicating this disease, not setting up a future tragedy. Is this the progress envisioned since the founding of the AIDS quilt in the 1980s?
No, it really can't! And I know you're saying abstinence, which has never worked. And what about the people already infected? Is there any behavior that can control the advancement of the disease?
I didn't hear anything that supports denial to LGBTQRSTUV. The vid looks like professional propaganda.
I'm in the number one risk category and I've avoided it. well if you have it and you knowingly transmitted to someone else you should be charged with a felony. But I'm not abstinent and I avoided you don't have to be abstinent and I wasn't going to say that. I'm a gay man and I have a sexual relationship with another man I'm in like the top risk category. You know how I avoid it? Medication it can be controlled by behavior you tell me it can't but I know better than you. get busy with all the other infected people you want. If you're knowingly spread it to someone who isn't infected without their knowledge that should be considered a felony.
So how have you avoided it? I'm a bit unclear whether you said medication, which the Republicans in Tennessee want to take that money, or behavior which you haven't detailed out. I agree that if someone knowingly spreads HIV to someone without their knowledge, that should be a felony. But some of the federal money for HIV screening is being taken away so people don't know their status.
same way most people do monogamy. But even if monogamy is too extreme for you just don't be as promiscuous as you possibly can. an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The behavior is obvious it's a sexually transmitted disease. It is predominantly transmitted in the US between men having sex with men. If you fit this demographic or you're a woman who is getting together with a bisexual man, be careful. But most importantly do not be a slave to impulse. When you talk to Republicans about this something to keep in mind if you want then to care about it and I imagine that's the goal right? The way they think about this is it a gay man's disease it affects gay men and it won't affect me. Remind them that sometimes the men that their daughter is like are bisexual and they can transmit it to their daughters. If you push on them with these gay rights arguments they're just going to fight against you cuz that's culture war. All you have to do is remind them where all the same culture and it casualty on one side is a casualty on both sides. So the best thing you can do is decouple this from gay rights. Please.
Even if the state makes up the $9M out of its own budget, some of the organizations will be worse off because of their inability to take advantage of the other perks that come with being a CDC grant recipient. By losing the CDC grant recipient status, the non-profits lose the ability to get drugs at a huge discount to distribute to patients. It goes beyond just screening. Anyway, this appears to be an attempt by the legislature/governor to cut off planned parenthood and others from some money by letting the state control who gets what.
The media is being a little dishonest and not telling the whole story. It only involved $8 million, and the state decided not to accept that money from the federal government because the money came with strings, and the state would have had to give some of the money to Planned Parenthood (an abortion provider). In response to the state not accepting the money, the CDC announced they were still going to send $4 million for HIV diagnostics to Tennesse through the private charity United Way. Tennesse Health Commissioner Alvarado said the federal grants provided by the CDC were "cumbersome," in that they required agencies to seek reimbursement for expenses. Because of that, agencies only ever spent a maximum of $7 million, Alvarado said. "I think this is going to allow a bit of innovation, a little bit of liberty and space for our partners to have the money upfront (and say,) 'Let's try some different methods of trying to reduce this,' Alvarado said. Governor Bill Lee explained, "It’s important that HIV funding is spent effectively and efficiently. We can do that better than the strings attached to the federal dollars that came our way, and that's why we made that decision." As of April 21, 2023, Tennesse has decided to approve $9 million in state funding for HIV treatment, following national media criticism.
