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[*] posted on 11-12-2006 at 09:11 AM
TJ `Dark Side`; HIV & Hepatitis C prevalency


http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20061112-9999-1n12...

Two public health specialists at the University of California San Diego painted a grim picture of the health conditions facing sex workers and injection-drug users in Tijuana.

Steffanie Strathdee, UCSD's chief of international health, and Tom Patterson, UCSD professor-in-residence of psychiatry, spoke Thursday at a “Tequila Talk” sponsored by the Institute of the Americas. Data show female sex workers who inject drugs have an HIV prevalency of 15 percent. “That is really scary,” Strathdee said. Data also show the HIV prevalency of male drug injectors has risen from 3 percent to 6 percent. Hepatitis C prevalency among injectors, who often share needles, was 95 percent.




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[*] posted on 11-12-2006 at 01:08 PM


A doctor pal of mine in Guerrero Negro told me that HIV is of epidemic proportions in that city so all you guys going to the cantinas there...cuidado! the reason is that there is a large army base there and so there is lots of unprotected sex going on and it has spread throughout the community...aguas!



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lol.gif posted on 11-12-2006 at 11:47 PM
See...


You can get something for nothing.

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female sex workers who inject drugs have an HIV prevalency of 15 percent.


Sounds like the johns will be getting more bang for their buck. I couldn't think of a better present.




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