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Anonymous wrote:

This is the first major fraud I think has been uncovered from scrutiny of USAID.

- USAID has funneled $472.6 million through Internews Network (IN).

- IN has worked with 4,291 media outlets, producing 4,799 hours of broadcasts.

- Reached up to 778 million people.

- Trained over 9,000 journalists.

- Supported social media censorship initiatives.

- Offices in over 30 countries, main hubs in US, London, Paris, Kiev, Bangkok, Nairobi.

- Led by Jeanne Bourgault, with a salary of $451k/year.

- Board co-chaired by Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, Democratic donors.

- Launched a $10M fund at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2023.

- Operates at least 6 subsidiaries, one in the Cayman Islands.

- Over 95% of IN's budget since 2008 from the US government.

- Main billing location is an abandoned building in California

- Obvious money-grab and probably doing spook bidding for a long time.

Why is MSM silent?

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TEN MILLION DOLLARS for “volunteer male circumcision” in Mozambique.

That’s where our hard earned tax dollars had been funneled. Why???

Because it helps prevent the spread of HIV

Want to know what prevents the spread of HIV almost 100% - not having male on make sex. We aren’t allowed to say this out loud, but it is true.

You are "not allowed to say this out loud," because it is stupid and factually untrue. You are embarrassing yourself. Please educate yourself on HIV.
https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/about-hiv-and-aids/how-is-hiv-transmitted

I cannot even believe there are Americans this ignorant about HIV/AIDS in this day and age. HIV spreads by blood, semen, rectal or vaginal fluids and breast milk. 52% of all HIV cases globally are women - 18.2 million women. So, stopping male on male sex will not 100% stop the AIDS epidemic.

In the US, 22% of all new HIV infections are among people who report heterosexual contact (15% women, 7% men). 7% of new infections are among people who inject drugs.

Circumcision of men decreases HIV transmission rates by about 50%, because the foreskin has cells that are more vulnerable to HIV infection

Read more here https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1127372/

Helping slow the spread of HIV outside the US is important for many reasons, but generally the biggest one is that HIV infection leads to increased treatment costs (drugs that reduce HIV viral load as well as treatment of AIDS related illnesses) and decreases the productive value of humans (productive value means they work less, earn less and pay fewer taxes). USAID and the USG broadly both at home and abroad sees how it is less costly to prevent or reduce disease than to suffer the consequences of increased spread.

DOGE is focused on line item reductions and doesn't take the time (or have the sense, frankly) to investigate why these investments are made.

It is not some woke group of USAID staffers that came up with a crazy corrupt way to use USG funds. HIV/AIDS prevention is a global effort coordinate among many countries via national governments, international organizations and NGOs, backed by a lot of scientific trials.

You could figure any of this out if you googled and read a range of reliable sources. 15 minutes is all it would take.

Sorry it is 82% of cases. Women get HIV because - you guessed it - the men they have sex with had male on male sexual contact.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7138a1.htm#:~:text=The%20most%20common%20transmission%20category,MMSC%20and%20injection%20drug%20use.

It is absolutely a male on male sexual contact disease that would be almost eradicated if there was no male on male sexual contact. So no, I do not want to pay for Mozambique men to circumcise themselves to avoid transmission of HIV because they choose to have unprotected male on male sexual contact.

You are misquoting your source which is about large urban clusters. You quote a sub-conclusion based on those select groups, and you conflate IV drug use transmission with MSM transmission. The article opens with this quote -- "Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) accounted for 68% of new HIV diagnoses in the United States in 2020"

Yes, that is more than half of transmission but it is not all. Women do get HIV from men but those men do not always get it from gay men, and women also get HIV from IV drug use.

You say this disease "would be almost eradicated if there was no male on male sexual contact". This isn't correct. Even if you could magically stop all male/male sexual contact, you would still have male/female transmission and IV drug use transmission. In many cases, in less developed countries, in addition to those methods of transmission, there has been medical needle use transmission because medical professionals in poor/less developed countries sometimes have to reuse needles.

Additionally, how would you even propose stopping "male on male sexual contact". Are you going to arrest millions of people? Are you going to break into bedrooms? Are you just going to shame all gay men? Are you going to let them die and hope that "suffering the consequences" of their behavior will get them to stop? What is your idea -- that if gay men all die, HIV will end?

Every good health official knows that it is not possible to end male on male sexual contact. Policies like those I suggested in the previous paragraph just drive this behavior underground, making it harder to educate people about AIDS transmission, harder to get them into treatment (which can greatly decrease transmission) and harder to get them to voluntarily engage in safe sex practices like condoms and circumcision. And, it costs the government & health systems (and therefore taxpayers) far more to address late stage treatment and disease burden on the GDP. That is why health programs do not stigmatize MSM sex. It's not actually productive to reducing HIV transmission.

Health programs should stigmatize highly risky behaviors - like male on male sex. We stigmatize IV drug use, prostitution, drinking while pregnant, etc. so stop the gaslighting. AIDS exists and spreads because we refuse to be honest about the cause. And then we expect US taxpayers to pay for it. This is ludicrous. I cannot believe the billions we have paid so African men can avoid natural consequences of risky behavior.

TBH, from the point of view of effective treatment, we have learned that stigmatizing these groups does not actually stop transmission, it makes transmission harder to stop. In general, non-stigmatizing access to treatment and education and prevention assistance is more effective than shame and stigma in reducing HIV rates. .

Globally, anti-LGBT laws continue to hinder the HIV response - in Africa as well.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-3018(22)00265-X/fulltext#:~:text=In%202019%2C%20the%20risk%20of,and%207%25%20vs%2022%25).

The men engaging in male on male sex would never consider themselves LGB and would not think “anti-LGB” laws affect them. When I was in Afghanistan we were not allowed to even discuss this happening (along with the child rape) as to not offend the Afghans who see male on male sex as religiously acceptable to avoid dirty women. Forced tolerance.

So why don’t we offer free circumcisions to all Americans if it is so necessary for public health?

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Anonymous wrote:

This is the first major fraud I think has been uncovered from scrutiny of USAID.

- USAID has funneled $472.6 million through Internews Network (IN).

- IN has worked with 4,291 media outlets, producing 4,799 hours of broadcasts.

- Reached up to 778 million people.

- Trained over 9,000 journalists.

- Supported social media censorship initiatives.

- Offices in over 30 countries, main hubs in US, London, Paris, Kiev, Bangkok, Nairobi.

- Led by Jeanne Bourgault, with a salary of $451k/year.

- Board co-chaired by Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, Democratic donors.

- Launched a $10M fund at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2023.

- Operates at least 6 subsidiaries, one in the Cayman Islands.

- Over 95% of IN's budget since 2008 from the US government.

- Main billing location is an abandoned building in California

- Obvious money-grab and probably doing spook bidding for a long time.

Why is MSM silent?

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Anonymous wrote:Mike Benz from X:

USAID literally set up fake AIDS prevention workshops to topple foreign governments

That’s only the TIP of the ICEBERG.
Unless you were benefiting from this unbelievably massive corruption scheme, probably only a few people knew what was going on.

Kudos to Mike Benz for his relentless investigations.

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TEN MILLION DOLLARS for “volunteer male circumcision” in Mozambique.

That’s where our hard earned tax dollars had been funneled. Why???

Because it helps prevent the spread of HIV

Want to know what prevents the spread of HIV almost 100% - not having male on make sex. We aren’t allowed to say this out loud, but it is true.

You are "not allowed to say this out loud," because it is stupid and factually untrue. You are embarrassing yourself. Please educate yourself on HIV.
https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/about-hiv-and-aids/how-is-hiv-transmitted

I cannot even believe there are Americans this ignorant about HIV/AIDS in this day and age. HIV spreads by blood, semen, rectal or vaginal fluids and breast milk. 52% of all HIV cases globally are women - 18.2 million women. So, stopping male on male sex will not 100% stop the AIDS epidemic.

In the US, 22% of all new HIV infections are among people who report heterosexual contact (15% women, 7% men). 7% of new infections are among people who inject drugs.

Circumcision of men decreases HIV transmission rates by about 50%, because the foreskin has cells that are more vulnerable to HIV infection

Read more here https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1127372/

Helping slow the spread of HIV outside the US is important for many reasons, but generally the biggest one is that HIV infection leads to increased treatment costs (drugs that reduce HIV viral load as well as treatment of AIDS related illnesses) and decreases the productive value of humans (productive value means they work less, earn less and pay fewer taxes). USAID and the USG broadly both at home and abroad sees how it is less costly to prevent or reduce disease than to suffer the consequences of increased spread.

DOGE is focused on line item reductions and doesn't take the time (or have the sense, frankly) to investigate why these investments are made.

It is not some woke group of USAID staffers that came up with a crazy corrupt way to use USG funds. HIV/AIDS prevention is a global effort coordinate among many countries via national governments, international organizations and NGOs, backed by a lot of scientific trials.

You could figure any of this out if you googled and read a range of reliable sources. 15 minutes is all it would take.

Sorry it is 82% of cases. Women get HIV because - you guessed it - the men they have sex with had male on male sexual contact.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7138a1.htm#:~:text=The%20most%20common%20transmission%20category,MMSC%20and%20injection%20drug%20use.

It is absolutely a male on male sexual contact disease that would be almost eradicated if there was no male on male sexual contact. So no, I do not want to pay for Mozambique men to circumcise themselves to avoid transmission of HIV because they choose to have unprotected male on male sexual contact.

You are misquoting your source which is about large urban clusters. You quote a sub-conclusion based on those select groups, and you conflate IV drug use transmission with MSM transmission. The article opens with this quote -- "Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) accounted for 68% of new HIV diagnoses in the United States in 2020"

Yes, that is more than half of transmission but it is not all. Women do get HIV from men but those men do not always get it from gay men, and women also get HIV from IV drug use.

You say this disease "would be almost eradicated if there was no male on male sexual contact". This isn't correct. Even if you could magically stop all male/male sexual contact, you would still have male/female transmission and IV drug use transmission. In many cases, in less developed countries, in addition to those methods of transmission, there has been medical needle use transmission because medical professionals in poor/less developed countries sometimes have to reuse needles.

Additionally, how would you even propose stopping "male on male sexual contact". Are you going to arrest millions of people? Are you going to break into bedrooms? Are you just going to shame all gay men? Are you going to let them die and hope that "suffering the consequences" of their behavior will get them to stop? What is your idea -- that if gay men all die, HIV will end?

Every good health official knows that it is not possible to end male on male sexual contact. Policies like those I suggested in the previous paragraph just drive this behavior underground, making it harder to educate people about AIDS transmission, harder to get them into treatment (which can greatly decrease transmission) and harder to get them to voluntarily engage in safe sex practices like condoms and circumcision. And, it costs the government & health systems (and therefore taxpayers) far more to address late stage treatment and disease burden on the GDP. That is why health programs do not stigmatize MSM sex. It's not actually productive to reducing HIV transmission.

Health programs should stigmatize highly risky behaviors - like male on male sex. We stigmatize IV drug use, prostitution, drinking while pregnant, etc. so stop the gaslighting. AIDS exists and spreads because we refuse to be honest about the cause. And then we expect US taxpayers to pay for it. This is ludicrous. I cannot believe the billions we have paid so African men can avoid natural consequences of risky behavior.

TBH, from the point of view of effective treatment, we have learned that stigmatizing these groups does not actually stop transmission, it makes transmission harder to stop. In general, non-stigmatizing access to treatment and education and prevention assistance is more effective than shame and stigma in reducing HIV rates. .

Globally, anti-LGBT laws continue to hinder the HIV response - in Africa as well.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-3018(22)00265-X/fulltext#:~:text=In%202019%2C%20the%20risk%20of,and%207%25%20vs%2022%25).

The men engaging in male on male sex would never consider themselves LGB and would not think “anti-LGB” laws affect them. When I was in Afghanistan we were not allowed to even discuss this happening (along with the child rape) as to not offend the Afghans who see male on male sex as religiously acceptable to avoid dirty women. Forced tolerance.

So why don’t we offer free circumcisions to all Americans if it is so necessary for public health?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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TEN MILLION DOLLARS for “volunteer male circumcision” in Mozambique.

That’s where our hard earned tax dollars had been funneled. Why???

Because it helps prevent the spread of HIV

Want to know what prevents the spread of HIV almost 100% - not having male on make sex. We aren’t allowed to say this out loud, but it is true.

You are "not allowed to say this out loud," because it is stupid and factually untrue. You are embarrassing yourself. Please educate yourself on HIV.
https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/about-hiv-and-aids/how-is-hiv-transmitted

I cannot even believe there are Americans this ignorant about HIV/AIDS in this day and age. HIV spreads by blood, semen, rectal or vaginal fluids and breast milk. 52% of all HIV cases globally are women - 18.2 million women. So, stopping male on male sex will not 100% stop the AIDS epidemic.

In the US, 22% of all new HIV infections are among people who report heterosexual contact (15% women, 7% men). 7% of new infections are among people who inject drugs.

Circumcision of men decreases HIV transmission rates by about 50%, because the foreskin has cells that are more vulnerable to HIV infection

Read more here https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1127372/

Helping slow the spread of HIV outside the US is important for many reasons, but generally the biggest one is that HIV infection leads to increased treatment costs (drugs that reduce HIV viral load as well as treatment of AIDS related illnesses) and decreases the productive value of humans (productive value means they work less, earn less and pay fewer taxes). USAID and the USG broadly both at home and abroad sees how it is less costly to prevent or reduce disease than to suffer the consequences of increased spread.

DOGE is focused on line item reductions and doesn't take the time (or have the sense, frankly) to investigate why these investments are made.

It is not some woke group of USAID staffers that came up with a crazy corrupt way to use USG funds. HIV/AIDS prevention is a global effort coordinate among many countries via national governments, international organizations and NGOs, backed by a lot of scientific trials.

You could figure any of this out if you googled and read a range of reliable sources. 15 minutes is all it would take.

Sorry it is 82% of cases. Women get HIV because - you guessed it - the men they have sex with had male on male sexual contact.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7138a1.htm#:~:text=The%20most%20common%20transmission%20category,MMSC%20and%20injection%20drug%20use.

It is absolutely a male on male sexual contact disease that would be almost eradicated if there was no male on male sexual contact. So no, I do not want to pay for Mozambique men to circumcise themselves to avoid transmission of HIV because they choose to have unprotected male on male sexual contact.

You are misquoting your source which is about large urban clusters. You quote a sub-conclusion based on those select groups, and you conflate IV drug use transmission with MSM transmission. The article opens with this quote -- "Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) accounted for 68% of new HIV diagnoses in the United States in 2020"

Yes, that is more than half of transmission but it is not all. Women do get HIV from men but those men do not always get it from gay men, and women also get HIV from IV drug use.

You say this disease "would be almost eradicated if there was no male on male sexual contact". This isn't correct. Even if you could magically stop all male/male sexual contact, you would still have male/female transmission and IV drug use transmission. In many cases, in less developed countries, in addition to those methods of transmission, there has been medical needle use transmission because medical professionals in poor/less developed countries sometimes have to reuse needles.

Additionally, how would you even propose stopping "male on male sexual contact". Are you going to arrest millions of people? Are you going to break into bedrooms? Are you just going to shame all gay men? Are you going to let them die and hope that "suffering the consequences" of their behavior will get them to stop? What is your idea -- that if gay men all die, HIV will end?

Every good health official knows that it is not possible to end male on male sexual contact. Policies like those I suggested in the previous paragraph just drive this behavior underground, making it harder to educate people about AIDS transmission, harder to get them into treatment (which can greatly decrease transmission) and harder to get them to voluntarily engage in safe sex practices like condoms and circumcision. And, it costs the government & health systems (and therefore taxpayers) far more to address late stage treatment and disease burden on the GDP. That is why health programs do not stigmatize MSM sex. It's not actually productive to reducing HIV transmission.

Health programs should stigmatize highly risky behaviors - like male on male sex. We stigmatize IV drug use, prostitution, drinking while pregnant, etc. so stop the gaslighting. AIDS exists and spreads because we refuse to be honest about the cause. And then we expect US taxpayers to pay for it. This is ludicrous. I cannot believe the billions we have paid so African men can avoid natural consequences of risky behavior.

TBH, from the point of view of effective treatment, we have learned that stigmatizing these groups does not actually stop transmission, it makes transmission harder to stop. In general, non-stigmatizing access to treatment and education and prevention assistance is more effective than shame and stigma in reducing HIV rates. .

Globally, anti-LGBT laws continue to hinder the HIV response - in Africa as well.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-3018(22)00265-X/fulltext#:~:text=In%202019%2C%20the%20risk%20of,and%207%25%20vs%2022%25).

The men engaging in male on male sex would never consider themselves LGB and would not think “anti-LGB” laws affect them. When I was in Afghanistan we were not allowed to even discuss this happening (along with the child rape) as to not offend the Afghans who see male on male sex as religiously acceptable to avoid dirty women. Forced tolerance.

So why don’t we offer free circumcisions to all Americans if it is so necessary for public health?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
TEN MILLION DOLLARS for “volunteer male circumcision” in Mozambique.

That’s where our hard earned tax dollars had been funneled. Why???

Because it helps prevent the spread of HIV

Want to know what prevents the spread of HIV almost 100% - not having male on make sex. We aren’t allowed to say this out loud, but it is true.

You are "not allowed to say this out loud," because it is stupid and factually untrue. You are embarrassing yourself. Please educate yourself on HIV.
https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/about-hiv-and-aids/how-is-hiv-transmitted

I cannot even believe there are Americans this ignorant about HIV/AIDS in this day and age. HIV spreads by blood, semen, rectal or vaginal fluids and breast milk. 52% of all HIV cases globally are women - 18.2 million women. So, stopping male on male sex will not 100% stop the AIDS epidemic.

In the US, 22% of all new HIV infections are among people who report heterosexual contact (15% women, 7% men). 7% of new infections are among people who inject drugs.

Circumcision of men decreases HIV transmission rates by about 50%, because the foreskin has cells that are more vulnerable to HIV infection

Read more here https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1127372/

Helping slow the spread of HIV outside the US is important for many reasons, but generally the biggest one is that HIV infection leads to increased treatment costs (drugs that reduce HIV viral load as well as treatment of AIDS related illnesses) and decreases the productive value of humans (productive value means they work less, earn less and pay fewer taxes). USAID and the USG broadly both at home and abroad sees how it is less costly to prevent or reduce disease than to suffer the consequences of increased spread.

DOGE is focused on line item reductions and doesn't take the time (or have the sense, frankly) to investigate why these investments are made.

It is not some woke group of USAID staffers that came up with a crazy corrupt way to use USG funds. HIV/AIDS prevention is a global effort coordinate among many countries via national governments, international organizations and NGOs, backed by a lot of scientific trials.

You could figure any of this out if you googled and read a range of reliable sources. 15 minutes is all it would take.

Sorry it is 82% of cases. Women get HIV because - you guessed it - the men they have sex with had male on male sexual contact.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7138a1.htm#:~:text=The%20most%20common%20transmission%20category,MMSC%20and%20injection%20drug%20use.

It is absolutely a male on male sexual contact disease that would be almost eradicated if there was no male on male sexual contact. So no, I do not want to pay for Mozambique men to circumcise themselves to avoid transmission of HIV because they choose to have unprotected male on male sexual contact.

You are misquoting your source which is about large urban clusters. You quote a sub-conclusion based on those select groups, and you conflate IV drug use transmission with MSM transmission. The article opens with this quote -- "Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) accounted for 68% of new HIV diagnoses in the United States in 2020"

Yes, that is more than half of transmission but it is not all. Women do get HIV from men but those men do not always get it from gay men, and women also get HIV from IV drug use.

You say this disease "would be almost eradicated if there was no male on male sexual contact". This isn't correct. Even if you could magically stop all male/male sexual contact, you would still have male/female transmission and IV drug use transmission. In many cases, in less developed countries, in addition to those methods of transmission, there has been medical needle use transmission because medical professionals in poor/less developed countries sometimes have to reuse needles.

Additionally, how would you even propose stopping "male on male sexual contact". Are you going to arrest millions of people? Are you going to break into bedrooms? Are you just going to shame all gay men? Are you going to let them die and hope that "suffering the consequences" of their behavior will get them to stop? What is your idea -- that if gay men all die, HIV will end?

Every good health official knows that it is not possible to end male on male sexual contact. Policies like those I suggested in the previous paragraph just drive this behavior underground, making it harder to educate people about AIDS transmission, harder to get them into treatment (which can greatly decrease transmission) and harder to get them to voluntarily engage in safe sex practices like condoms and circumcision. And, it costs the government & health systems (and therefore taxpayers) far more to address late stage treatment and disease burden on the GDP. That is why health programs do not stigmatize MSM sex. It's not actually productive to reducing HIV transmission.

Health programs should stigmatize highly risky behaviors - like male on male sex. We stigmatize IV drug use, prostitution, drinking while pregnant, etc. so stop the gaslighting. AIDS exists and spreads because we refuse to be honest about the cause. And then we expect US taxpayers to pay for it. This is ludicrous. I cannot believe the billions we have paid so African men can avoid natural consequences of risky behavior.

TBH, from the point of view of effective treatment, we have learned that stigmatizing these groups does not actually stop transmission, it makes transmission harder to stop. In general, non-stigmatizing access to treatment and education and prevention assistance is more effective than shame and stigma in reducing HIV rates. .

Globally, anti-LGBT laws continue to hinder the HIV response - in Africa as well.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-3018(22)00265-X/fulltext#:~:text=In%202019%2C%20the%20risk%20of,and%207%25%20vs%2022%25).

The men engaging in male on male sex would never consider themselves LGB and would not think “anti-LGB” laws affect them. When I was in Afghanistan we were not allowed to even discuss this happening (along with the child rape) as to not offend the Afghans who see male on male sex as religiously acceptable to avoid dirty women. Forced tolerance.

So why don’t we offer free circumcisions to all Americans if it is so necessary for public health?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
TEN MILLION DOLLARS for “volunteer male circumcision” in Mozambique.

That’s where our hard earned tax dollars had been funneled. Why???

Because it helps prevent the spread of HIV

Want to know what prevents the spread of HIV almost 100% - not having male on make sex. We aren’t allowed to say this out loud, but it is true.

You are "not allowed to say this out loud," because it is stupid and factually untrue. You are embarrassing yourself. Please educate yourself on HIV.
https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/about-hiv-and-aids/how-is-hiv-transmitted

I cannot even believe there are Americans this ignorant about HIV/AIDS in this day and age. HIV spreads by blood, semen, rectal or vaginal fluids and breast milk. 52% of all HIV cases globally are women - 18.2 million women. So, stopping male on male sex will not 100% stop the AIDS epidemic.

In the US, 22% of all new HIV infections are among people who report heterosexual contact (15% women, 7% men). 7% of new infections are among people who inject drugs.

Circumcision of men decreases HIV transmission rates by about 50%, because the foreskin has cells that are more vulnerable to HIV infection

Read more here https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1127372/

Helping slow the spread of HIV outside the US is important for many reasons, but generally the biggest one is that HIV infection leads to increased treatment costs (drugs that reduce HIV viral load as well as treatment of AIDS related illnesses) and decreases the productive value of humans (productive value means they work less, earn less and pay fewer taxes). USAID and the USG broadly both at home and abroad sees how it is less costly to prevent or reduce disease than to suffer the consequences of increased spread.

DOGE is focused on line item reductions and doesn't take the time (or have the sense, frankly) to investigate why these investments are made.

It is not some woke group of USAID staffers that came up with a crazy corrupt way to use USG funds. HIV/AIDS prevention is a global effort coordinate among many countries via national governments, international organizations and NGOs, backed by a lot of scientific trials.

You could figure any of this out if you googled and read a range of reliable sources. 15 minutes is all it would take.

Sorry it is 82% of cases. Women get HIV because - you guessed it - the men they have sex with had male on male sexual contact.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7138a1.htm#:~:text=The%20most%20common%20transmission%20category,MMSC%20and%20injection%20drug%20use.

It is absolutely a male on male sexual contact disease that would be almost eradicated if there was no male on male sexual contact. So no, I do not want to pay for Mozambique men to circumcise themselves to avoid transmission of HIV because they choose to have unprotected male on male sexual contact.

You are misquoting your source which is about large urban clusters. You quote a sub-conclusion based on those select groups, and you conflate IV drug use transmission with MSM transmission. The article opens with this quote -- "Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) accounted for 68% of new HIV diagnoses in the United States in 2020"

Yes, that is more than half of transmission but it is not all. Women do get HIV from men but those men do not always get it from gay men, and women also get HIV from IV drug use.

You say this disease "would be almost eradicated if there was no male on male sexual contact". This isn't correct. Even if you could magically stop all male/male sexual contact, you would still have male/female transmission and IV drug use transmission. In many cases, in less developed countries, in addition to those methods of transmission, there has been medical needle use transmission because medical professionals in poor/less developed countries sometimes have to reuse needles.

Additionally, how would you even propose stopping "male on male sexual contact". Are you going to arrest millions of people? Are you going to break into bedrooms? Are you just going to shame all gay men? Are you going to let them die and hope that "suffering the consequences" of their behavior will get them to stop? What is your idea -- that if gay men all die, HIV will end?

Every good health official knows that it is not possible to end male on male sexual contact. Policies like those I suggested in the previous paragraph just drive this behavior underground, making it harder to educate people about AIDS transmission, harder to get them into treatment (which can greatly decrease transmission) and harder to get them to voluntarily engage in safe sex practices like condoms and circumcision. And, it costs the government & health systems (and therefore taxpayers) far more to address late stage treatment and disease burden on the GDP. That is why health programs do not stigmatize MSM sex. It's not actually productive to reducing HIV transmission.

Health programs should stigmatize highly risky behaviors - like male on male sex. We stigmatize IV drug use, prostitution, drinking while pregnant, etc. so stop the gaslighting. AIDS exists and spreads because we refuse to be honest about the cause. And then we expect US taxpayers to pay for it. This is ludicrous. I cannot believe the billions we have paid so African men can avoid natural consequences of risky behavior.

TBH, from the point of view of effective treatment, we have learned that stigmatizing these groups does not actually stop transmission, it makes transmission harder to stop. In general, non-stigmatizing access to treatment and education and prevention assistance is more effective than shame and stigma in reducing HIV rates. .

Globally, anti-LGBT laws continue to hinder the HIV response - in Africa as well.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-3018(22)00265-X/fulltext#:~:text=In%202019%2C%20the%20risk%20of,and%207%25%20vs%2022%25).

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USAID literally set up fake AIDS prevention workshops to topple foreign governments

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Anonymous wrote:How much $$$$$$ did USAID “offer” each poor man in Mozambique to do risky surgery on his genitalia?

Why not respect their cultural values, and simply model proper hygiene for both men and women?

Some religions mandate circumcision on their baby boys, but certainly not all.

Again, cultural respect is essential.

THIS

And this is why USAID is disliked by so many overseas. I come from a country that does not normally circumcise. This is one more example of the US imposing its Western values on other countries.

Also agree with the other PP who says corruption is rampant in some countries, which makes it much easier to implement these programs there.

Glad this is all coming out. At the very least there needs to be some honest conversation as to what this agency is doing and WHY we are doing it.

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This is the first major fraud I think has been uncovered from scrutiny of USAID.

- USAID has funneled $472.6 million through Internews Network (IN).

- IN has worked with 4,291 media outlets, producing 4,799 hours of broadcasts.

- Reached up to 778 million people.

- Trained over 9,000 journalists.

- Supported social media censorship initiatives.

- Offices in over 30 countries, main hubs in US, London, Paris, Kiev, Bangkok, Nairobi.

- Led by Jeanne Bourgault, with a salary of $451k/year.

- Board co-chaired by Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, Democratic donors.

- Launched a $10M fund at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2023.

- Operates at least 6 subsidiaries, one in the Cayman Islands.

- Over 95% of IN's budget since 2008 from the US government.

- Main billing location is an abandoned building in California

- Obvious money-grab and probably doing spook bidding for a long time.

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TEN MILLION DOLLARS for “volunteer male circumcision” in Mozambique.

That’s where our hard earned tax dollars had been funneled. Why???

Because it helps prevent the spread of HIV

Want to know what prevents the spread of HIV almost 100% - not having male on make sex. We aren’t allowed to say this out loud, but it is true.

You are "not allowed to say this out loud," because it is stupid and factually untrue. You are embarrassing yourself. Please educate yourself on HIV.
https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/about-hiv-and-aids/how-is-hiv-transmitted

I cannot even believe there are Americans this ignorant about HIV/AIDS in this day and age. HIV spreads by blood, semen, rectal or vaginal fluids and breast milk. 52% of all HIV cases globally are women - 18.2 million women. So, stopping male on male sex will not 100% stop the AIDS epidemic.

In the US, 22% of all new HIV infections are among people who report heterosexual contact (15% women, 7% men). 7% of new infections are among people who inject drugs.

Circumcision of men decreases HIV transmission rates by about 50%, because the foreskin has cells that are more vulnerable to HIV infection

Read more here https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1127372/

Helping slow the spread of HIV outside the US is important for many reasons, but generally the biggest one is that HIV infection leads to increased treatment costs (drugs that reduce HIV viral load as well as treatment of AIDS related illnesses) and decreases the productive value of humans (productive value means they work less, earn less and pay fewer taxes). USAID and the USG broadly both at home and abroad sees how it is less costly to prevent or reduce disease than to suffer the consequences of increased spread.

DOGE is focused on line item reductions and doesn't take the time (or have the sense, frankly) to investigate why these investments are made.

It is not some woke group of USAID staffers that came up with a crazy corrupt way to use USG funds. HIV/AIDS prevention is a global effort coordinate among many countries via national governments, international organizations and NGOs, backed by a lot of scientific trials.

You could figure any of this out if you googled and read a range of reliable sources. 15 minutes is all it would take.

Sorry it is 82% of cases. Women get HIV because - you guessed it - the men they have sex with had male on male sexual contact.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7138a1.htm#:~:text=The%20most%20common%20transmission%20category,MMSC%20and%20injection%20drug%20use.

It is absolutely a male on male sexual contact disease that would be almost eradicated if there was no male on male sexual contact. So no, I do not want to pay for Mozambique men to circumcise themselves to avoid transmission of HIV because they choose to have unprotected male on male sexual contact.

You are misquoting your source which is about large urban clusters. You quote a sub-conclusion based on those select groups, and you conflate IV drug use transmission with MSM transmission. The article opens with this quote -- "Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) accounted for 68% of new HIV diagnoses in the United States in 2020"

Yes, that is more than half of transmission but it is not all. Women do get HIV from men but those men do not always get it from gay men, and women also get HIV from IV drug use.

You say this disease "would be almost eradicated if there was no male on male sexual contact". This isn't correct. Even if you could magically stop all male/male sexual contact, you would still have male/female transmission and IV drug use transmission. In many cases, in less developed countries, in addition to those methods of transmission, there has been medical needle use transmission because medical professionals in poor/less developed countries sometimes have to reuse needles.

Additionally, how would you even propose stopping "male on male sexual contact". Are you going to arrest millions of people? Are you going to break into bedrooms? Are you just going to shame all gay men? Are you going to let them die and hope that "suffering the consequences" of their behavior will get them to stop? What is your idea -- that if gay men all die, HIV will end?

Every good health official knows that it is not possible to end male on male sexual contact. Policies like those I suggested in the previous paragraph just drive this behavior underground, making it harder to educate people about AIDS transmission, harder to get them into treatment (which can greatly decrease transmission) and harder to get them to voluntarily engage in safe sex practices like condoms and circumcision. And, it costs the government & health systems (and therefore taxpayers) far more to address late stage treatment and disease burden on the GDP. That is why health programs do not stigmatize MSM sex. It's not actually productive to reducing HIV transmission.

Health programs should stigmatize highly risky behaviors - like male on male sex. We stigmatize IV drug use, prostitution, drinking while pregnant, etc. so stop the gaslighting. AIDS exists and spreads because we refuse to be honest about the cause. And then we expect US taxpayers to pay for it. This is ludicrous. I cannot believe the billions we have paid so African men can avoid natural consequences of risky behavior.

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Anonymous wrote:How much $$$$$$ did USAID “offer” each poor man in Mozambique to do risky surgery on his genitalia?

Why not respect their cultural values, and simply model proper hygiene for both men and women?

Some religions mandate circumcision on their baby boys, but certainly not all.

Again, cultural respect is essential.

THIS

And this is why USAID is disliked by so many overseas. I come from a country that does not normally circumcise. This is one more example of the US imposing its Western values on other countries.

Also agree with the other PP who says corruption is rampant in some countries, which makes it much easier to implement these programs there.

Glad this is all coming out. At the very least there needs to be some honest conversation as to what this agency is doing and WHY we are doing it.

Anonymous wrote:Feel free to send your own money to your favorite causes at any time.

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Anonymous wrote:Feel free to send your own money to your favorite causes at any time.

Taxes are our money.