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NIH Spent $464,272 to Find Out Why Gay Men Get Syphilis...in Peru
The National Institutes of Health has spent millions of dollars studying male sex workers in Peru, including more than $400,000 to determine why gay men get syphilis in the South American country.
"Syphilis remains an uncontrolled infectious disease globally, with high prevalence and incidence in certain high risk populations, affecting more than 20 percent of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Peru," according to the grant, awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The project, "Syphilis: Translating Technology to Understand a Neglected Epidemic," has received $464,272 since 2012.
The funding has gone to researchers at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, a private university in Lima, Peru. The school has two other active studies from the NIH devoted to male sex workers.
A $160,920 study is sending "motivational messages" via "mobile-phone text messaging, email, or instant messaging robots" to encourage gay men to get tested for HIV in Peru.
Messages include information on HIV testing, not "stigmatizing and stereotyping messages or images about 'being gay.'"
Another HIV prevention intervention study by the university is focusing on "MSM/transwomen," at a cost of $146,524.
Please excuse me for any visual you may draw but this shit is more of the same drip, drip, drip of US taxpayer money completely WASTED on something insanely idiotic and stupid. I can just hear the liberals crying that its "only" half a million dollars...a drop in the bucket of the US budget. But, lets take this one instance and multiply it by thousands of other "drops in the bucket" on similar and ridiculous studies or grants. We've come a long way in America from the original purpose of the income tax being solely for infrastructure and national defense. How many more bureaucracies do we need in Washington with their hand in our cookie jar?
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