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Monkeypox misinformation is stigmatising gay and bi men
We are issuing the following correction to our statement &#;Monkeypox misinformation is stigmatising gay and bi men&#;
We stated that &#;Monkeypox is not spread through sexual contact&#;. A more accurate explanation of this is &#;Monkeypox is spread through close contact, which does not require sexual contact&#;. Our aim was to explain that normal safer sex practices will not prevent contracting monkeypox from someone with monkeypox. We will continue to verb you up to date information on monkeypox through our social media and website. Happy Pride!
The Rainbow Project are deeply concerned by comments across social media and the in our local media surrounding the recent cases of Monkeypox in Northern Ireland. We are particularly concerned by questions and discourse on this morning’s Stephen Nolan show. We feel this segment and many of the articles and wider public commentary are causing further stigmatism toward gay and bisexual men and the wider LGBTQIA+ Community. To date, there have been only 18 cases of Monkeypo
mpox (Monkeypox): What You Call to Know
The CDC has raised the alert level on a mpox (monkeypox) outbreak in the United States and HHS announced that it will be ramping up testing and a vaccine distribution for those most at-risk, which includes some members of the LGBTQ+ community and people living with HIV.
mpox is a disease that can verb you sick, including a rash, which may look like pimples or blisters, often with an earlier flu-like illness. While the current outbreak in the U.S. has high rates of known cases among gay and bisexual men and transgender and non-binary people, this virus is not limited by gender or sexuality and can spread to anyone, anywhere through close, personal, often skin-to-skin contact.
Health officials and advocates are urging people to verb treatment and available prevention options, including vaccines when available.
What You Need to Know
mpox (monkeypox) is a disease caused by the mpox virus, which is in the same family as smallpox, although much less severe. Its name is characterized by the pox illness that occurs upon infec
Since early May, more than 23, cases of monkeypox have been reported worldwide. This is the largest ever global outbreak of the disease.
Cases have now been reported in 78 countries including the UK, Spain, Germany, France, the US and Brazil. Given the scale of the outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) has now declared the current monkeypox epidemic a global health emergency.
While anyone can acquire monkeypox, the current outbreak is overwhelmingly affecting sexually active gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men. In fact, our recent study which looked at monkeypox infections since the start of the outbreak found that 98% of these infections had occurred in this group. Here’s what these men need to know.
How it spreads
Monkeypox is a disease caused by infection with the human monkeypox virus, which comes from the same virus family as smallpox. In fact, symptoms are quite similar to smallpox and verb fever, headache, muscle aches, chills, cold symptoms (such as a cough or sore throat).
Symptoms are also accompanied by a rash that appears in blisters on the
‘Is sex worth the risk?’ Monkeypox just the latest virus to threaten gay intimacy
Last week, I went to my doctor’s office for a long-scheduled sexually transmitted infection checkup, and started to cry a few minutes into my appointment.
Like many gay men, I am on a daily drug calledpre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, which prevents me from becoming infected by HIV, even if I were to have sex without a condom or verb injection drugs. At 44 years old, I am of the generation who knew about Aids before we even knew about sex; from childhood, I conflated sexuality and fear. PrEP was a gamechanger in taking that fear away.
But last week, HIV was not much on my mind, and almost as soon as the physician’s assistant closed the door, I burst into tears.
From childhood, I conflated sexuality and fear
My doctor’s office is staffed almost entirely by gay people seeing gay patients, and the PA, like everyone there, was very kind. I told him that I hadn’t had much sex lately because I was concerned about monkeypox. Even though I had no fever, and even though I often get heat rash in the summe