Military Personnel And Their Partners Can Not Get Quality Treatment

Military Personnel And Their Partners Can Not Get Quality Treatment.
A doctor with involvement caring for armed forces personnel says the US military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" tactic puts both service members and the encyclopaedic public at risk by encouraging secrecy about sexual health issues. "Infections go undiagnosed. Service members and their partners go untreated," Dr Kenneth Katz, a medical doctor at San Diego State University and the University of California at San Diego, wrote in a commentary published Dec 1, 2010 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

And civilians "pay a price" because they have bonking with worship members who misconstrue out on programs aimed at preventing the spread of the HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, as well as other sexually transmitted diseases, Katz wrote. The soldierly is currently pondering the end of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which does not tolerate gay service members to serve openly. No one knows how many gays are in the armed forces. However, one 2002 work found that active-duty Navy sailors made up 9 percent of the patients who visited one homosexual men's health clinic in San Diego.