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Singapore Goes Pink!
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Singapore, 22 May 2014 – The movement supporting the Freedom to Love returns for its sixth consecutive year with new Ambassadors, a community-focused campaign video, and a more interactive and reflective atmosphere at Speakers’ Corner in Hong Lim Park. This year, Pink Dot shines the spotlight on the community and their perspectives on what the Freedom to Love means to them. Spearheading this are the Ambassadors for Pink Dot 2014, thespians recognised and respected for their craft, as well as their contributions to society: Sebastian Tan, Janice Koh, and Brendon Fernandez. Probably best known as his alter ego, Broadway Beng, Sebastian Tan is an award-winning performer whose body of work is as artistically eclectic as the person himself, appearing in productions such as the UK tour of Miss Saigon, Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress and Cinderel-Lah. His accolades include two Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards in 2009 and 2010, and a Star Award in 1997.
‘Worrying’ rise in HIV cases among gay men
The number of homosexual and bisexual cases has risen from 166 in 2009 to 247 last year. Action for Aids says the rise could be due to the availability of effective anti-retroviral medication and a degree of “condom fatigue” in Singapore. — ST FILE PHOTO – See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/health/story/worrying-rise-hiv-cases-among-gay-men-20140605#sthash.jGH56AcL.dpuf
The number of new cases of HIV and Aids in Singapore fell slightly last year to 454, 15 less than in 2012.
However, the Action for Aids (AfA) group here said there has been a “worrying” rise in infections among homosexual men.
The Ministry of Health revealed the figures yesterday, which also showed that the number of homosexual and bisexual cases has risen from 166 in 2009 to 247 last year.
In contrast, the number of heterosexual men infected fell from 241 to 157 in the same period.
First Published: Straits Times
HIV Transmission Today
We have learned a lot about how HIV is transmitted. When AIDS first hit our community, no one knew why gay and bisexual men were becoming sick, or how it could be prevented. In the absence of knowledge, people came up with their own theories and prevention methods. Some of them turned out to be useless, and some of them ended up working.
Now that we have much more scientific evidence about HIV/AIDS, we can make decisions about our sex lives that are based on the real risk of HIV transmission, not fear or misinformation.
Here’s what we know today…
You can be infected with HIV if you do something that allows enough of the virus to get into your bloodstream from the body fluids of a person who is HIV-positive.
There are only five everyday body fluids that have enough HIV in them to infect someone:
- blood
- semen (cum and pre-cum
- vaginal fluids (including menstrual fluids
- breast milk
- rectal fluids*
In order for transmission to occur, one of these fluids must come into contact with an entry point into the bloodstream in the HIV-negative person: a cut or abrasion on the skin, or the mucous membranes (internal lining) inside the body.
* What are rectal fluids and why have I never seen this before?
Rectal fluids are the fluids that cover the inside of the ass, and are the body’s natural form of anal lubrication. You may not have seen this listed before, because it’s only recently that research has demonstrated how HIV infection happens inside the ass.