You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

pianoforte611 comments on Quantified Risks of Gay Male Sex - Less Wrong Discussion

33 Post author: pianoforte611 18 August 2014 11:55PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (39)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: pianoforte611 19 August 2014 08:59:16PM 5 points [-]

Not just slightly, the HIV prevalence in the UK among MSM is less than 5% using demographic data here and here. And the total HIV prevalence in the UK is relatively high for Europe see here.

I should probably mention this in the OP. I live in the US, and I couldn't exactly obtain a prevalence rate for every single country and every disease. But the US is an outlier with respect to many diseases.