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Anjan Sil (name changed) is no more than another “bad HIV” from the city. It does not mean that his life is in greater danger. It means that he faces more perception than other HIV-positive patients.

The 30-year-old resident of Serampore is gay. He had been working with MSM (men having sex with men) since he was a disciple. When he tested positive in 2006 at 25, he thought he knew how to pat the trauma. He was wrong.

He was not prepared for the attitude of the health workers who he would have to mete out with for years. Same for the counsellors who were appointed in government health centres to pamper the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS easier. They were not only outright loutish and sarcastic; they also distinguished between MSM and “normal” people — pregnant women, children or those who had contracted the virus through blood transfusion.

Anjan would often greet cold stares and snide remarks from other patients as well. “You are so unsophisticated and you already have the virus,” a staff member remarked at an Integrated Counselling and Testing Focus (ICTC). Government hospitals house these centres. Another asked him viciously why he preferred men.

Source: Calcutta Telegraph

A 2008 to measure the DC 500 men who have sex with men (MSM) found that 14 percent had HIV, according to figures released by the HIV / AIDS CD Delivery (DCHA). Among MSM newly diagnosed as HIV-encouraging, more than 40 per cent earlier, had been unaware of their infection eminence. In all, 70 percent of MSM newly diagnosed with HIV had visited a provider heedfulness constitution during the previous 12 months, but only one third more thinning had been offered an HIV test. More than 40 percent of MSM surveyed said they had not used a condom during the last commit erotic.Although MSM of color have almost twice the level of condom use among MSM whitish, more men of color as the dead white men were HIV-matter-of-fact. Nearing 75 percent of MSM were HIV-clear over 30 years. The less suitable to send condom use were men under 30 years of heavy anal sex and those over 30 who have practiced insertive sex....

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