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Saturday, August 9, 2014

Feds to Spend $194K to Study Skill-Building for Male Sex Workers in Peru

August 6, 2014 By Melanie Hunter

The federal government has awarded the University of California Los Angeles $193,989 in taxpayer funds to study skill-building as HIV prevention for male sex workers in Peru. The grant was issued by the National Institute of Mental Health, a part of the National Institutes of Health, and proposes “a pilot study for a group that has been neglected in the Peruvian HIV epidemic, namely male sex workers (fletes).”  Men having sex with men in Peru have a “high burden of HIV” at 10 to 15 percent, compared to male sex workers, who have a 23 percent prevalence, researchers found.  According to the grant, recent HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) research in Peru has focused on “possible bridge populations” that include: heterosexually identified men, male sex partners of pregnant women, male clients of female sex workers, and men who have sex with men and women......To Read More..... 
 
My Take - Is this surreal or what. I couldn't pay someone to make this kind of stuff up. Who are these blithering idiots making the decisions on giving 'grants' anyway? No matter whom it is this is an excellent example of why the federal government shouldn't be allowed to give anyone grant money. We're pushing 18 trillion dollars in debt and this is what these bureaucrats are doing.  Certifiably insane!

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