I read that article today.  It's very strange.  Some gay men obviously hate themselves to even contemplate the thought of catching Aids to become part of some sub culture and to belong.  They appeared to discuss it as though they were getting a tattoo.

The worst of it is - the bi sexual males who are married or in a heterosexual relationship and continue to sleep with other males.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Man-deliberately-infected-sex-partner/2007/04/23/1177180546489.html

An AIDS-afflicted homosexual man deliberately infected a younger sexual partner with the deadly HIV virus, a Brisbane court has been told.

Jamie Michael Richards, 34, of Highgate Hill in inner-city Brisbane, pleaded not guilty in the Brisbane District Court to intending to transmit a serious disease and unlawfully transmitting a serious disease due to sex with a 20-year-old man.

He faces an alternative charge of grievous bodily harm against the man, whom Richards allegedly had a casual sexual relationship with.

"There were a number of conversations about the use of condoms ... Jamie would say it was okay not to wear one because he'd never had a sexually transmitted disease," Mr Vasta told the court.

Mr Vasta told the court Richards had known he was HIV positive since 1995 and had been advised by help services not to expose others to the infection.

The court also heard Richards told police in 2003 that he had "full-blown AIDS and hepatitis C" while questioned over another matter.

Mr Vasta said Richards still denied he had AIDS in a telephone conversation with the victim taped by police.

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HIV man ordered to stand trial over sex

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/HIV-man-ordered-to-stand-trial-over-sex/2007/07/10/1183833492092.html

A Victorian man accused of spreading HIV through unprotected sex has been ordered to stand trial.

Solomon Mwale, 38, of Grovedale, has pleaded not guilty in the Geelong Magistrates' Court to three counts of reckless conduct endangering serious injury.

Mwale met his alleged victim, who cannot be named, in a video store in November 2000.

The pair began a relationship which Mwale ended on Valentine's Day in 2004.

The alleged victim told the court she still loved Mwale despite contracting the disease.

"I will take my love for him to the grave, but I will never forgive what he has done," she told the court.

Yes I was shocked at this.  I think Victorian Health is partly to blame for being too soft on perpetrators for these sorts of crime - paedophiles included.

Just goes to show - don't trust anyone - don't have unprotected sex.  The warnings have been there for years.

But expect a wave of immigration in the next twelve months.  The figures are going to double according to the immigration department - although it was only shown in the media once.

The problem with this is that immigrants are only being randomly screened for diseases.  Doctors have been complaining about all these new fungii being seen on some immigrants - not to mention HIV and TB.  We have kept Australian relatively disease free for years and health checks used to be very strict.  Now with Howard and his cost cutting government - checks are only made on about a third of all immigrants.

We haven't got adequate health services in place to ensure that these immigrants are followed up and their diseases controlled.

Okay... how many more people need to get aids before we stop African immigration completely?

You are confusing two separate issues. There may be a case for increased or mandatory testing, but not for stopping immigration.

We have kept Australian relatively disease free for years

What diseases? Polio and TB maybe, but not aids. The ones that are a real concern for us are the ones we already have.

Do you mind if I join this thread onto this other one?

gay man spreads aids: http://ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1174300780

Polio & TB are not serious threats. The same things that have enabled us to virtually elimiante them will also stop them spreading, despite an occasional traveller bringing it in.

Africans = HIV

That's absurd DT. just add disease testing and you get africans = no HIV

You can join it ... but damn... do you have to delete the entire thread?

No.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Malawi-unveils-mass-HIV-testing-report/2007/07/16/1184559711954.html

Health officials in Malawi were preparing to launch a massive HIV testing program to identify tens of thousands of people unknowingly infected with the virus in the southern African nation.

Many of the estimated 14 per cent of Malawian adults who are HIV-positive do not know they are infected, jeopardising efforts to stop the spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic among sexually active teenagers and adults, the government has said.