Why is there no discussion of the gender issues which seem to be driving the international virus in the UK response?
That’s what we would like to know! The UK response has traditionally been led by the gay rights movement, who did fantastic work in setting up organisations like the Terrence Higgins Trust. The heterosexual epidemic in the UK has now taken off (in 2003 44% of new infections in the UK were amongst women), but we assume that just because women in the UK have the vote and have equal access to jobs (in theory) and to the law, that gender isn’t an issue in the UK. But in fact 2 women a week are killed through domestic violence in the UK, we have the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe, chlamydia is spreading rapidly, scarcely any really good sex education around behaviour change… all the classic ingredients for HIV to take off here as it has done elsewhere in the world.
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