Comments on: Gay men need to talk about Hepatitis C /news/national-news/new-south-wales-news/we-need-to-talk/159259 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Thu, 22 Jun 2017 03:14:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Tex Mckenzie /news/national-news/new-south-wales-news/we-need-to-talk/159259#comment-597059 Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:56:47 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=159259#comment-597059 Why not just adjust the name of this paper to the original name of the Sydney Star Observer? To include a line like: ‘As gay men in Sydney and Australia we need to be talking about this’ reinforces the Sydney-centric view of the authors who write for this publication. If the author meant men in Australia why not just write that rather than favouring Sydney (as usual) in your copy?

]]> By: Eric Glare /news/national-news/new-south-wales-news/we-need-to-talk/159259#comment-597038 Mon, 19 Jun 2017 10:21:36 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=159259#comment-597038 I was very surprised to read that Positive Life was questioning HCV sexual transmission in 2015 especially because it was so well known that such a stance then would have been unethical and seriously out of touch. I collected their resource on the very topic, “Knowing the facts: sex and HepC” in 2008. It gives the same as advice as here. So I looked up the article referred to here as questioning sexual transmission, “In the blood” and it is instead a historical account of questioning of sexual transmission but it refers to “emerging and compelling evidence that HCV is transmitted sexually”. It makes it very clear that injecting drug use is not the only risk: “What’s important is thinking about your risk for sexual transmission of HCV”.

Why rewrite history forgetting you have educated a whole cohort of gay men that HCV is sexually transmitted? A whole cohort who have been having HCV tests every year for many years. Do we have to have a position of failure to justify sexual health messages?

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