Culture, Gender, and HIV

[differenceblog]

APHA week continues: At last week's APHA meeting, many papers reported differences in the way that men and women regard HIV and AIDS, across many cultures. All results are 2007. In India, Agrawal et al reported that men were significantly more likely to hold stigmatizing attitudes than women (OR=1.56). Fumihiko Yokota found that men living

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[astrogeek01]

I was tested once when I had to get my visa to go to Russia (required at the time, I don't know if it still is), and I was tested in routine bloodwork recently (they asked if it was ok and I was like well it's not really needed but sure). Also I used to give blood and I know they test there. (Stopped giving blood when it started to make me really really dizzy)

I think it's a good idea to get tested, if there are reasons to do so.

What's "down low" behavior?

[differenceblog]

Thomas defines it as "those with female and surreptitious male partners" -- the Wikipedia article on Down-Low traces this specific usage to 2001. I actually really like the Wikipedia article on this.

[differenceblog]

Also: My parents had the same phone number for freaking ever, which means that they got a disproportionately high (to my mind) number of "random" phone surveys. One of these asked "have you ever been tested for HIV" to which my father responded "Every 6 weeks!" (He was a very active blood donater.) I don't know if that should count, but I guess it does.

Then again, when asked if he'd ever paid for sex, he asked "Does marriage count?" He was odd.

[kdsorceress]

*snrks!* He sounds fun!

~Sor