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Ahoy you gotto luv; - FIFO, Just goes to prove that home talent is must better than international talent. Lets not forget there a good reason for wearing a condom, even if you are Pissed
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Queensland's booming mining industry is responsible for soaring rates of HIV among the state's straight couples, a sexual health doctor says. Dr Theo van Lieshout says gay men still account for more than 80 per cent of Queensland's 140 new cases a year. But he says young cashed-up fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) workers holidaying in southeast Asia are making the notorious disease more common among heterosexuals. "They go over with a group of mates, they have sex with half a dozen women or more, they may not be sober at the time when they're having sex. They can't recall wearing a condom," he told AAP. "They get back to the mine and their regular partners in Brisbane and they invariably have sex with them first and they then walk into the clinic anxious." Dr van Lieshout, who works at the Biala Community Health Centre, said that as recently as this month a FIFO worker had come to the clinic and returned a positive HIV test. Fortunately his girlfriend tested negative. Treasurer Chris Bowen on Monday promised $3.5 million to keep the Brisbane-based clinic open if federal Labor is re-elected. He hit out at Premier Campbell Newman's public service cuts, which he says have had major impacts on the state's health system. Dr van Lieshout said the issue transcended politics and he would happily accept funding from either side of government in an effort to stop the worrying new spread of HIV in the state. Rates will increase if the centre is forced to close, Dr Lieshout says. "We're going to see it coming in groups that aren't traditionally at risk groups and this includes heterosexually-acquired HIV and it's going to come from Southeast Asia and from people doing sex tours and that sort of thing," he said.
Link is broken,so has been taken down
Queensland's booming mining industry is responsible for soaring rates of HIV among the state's straight couples, a sexual health doctor says. Dr Theo van Lieshout says gay men still account for more than 80 per cent of Queensland's 140 new cases a year. But he says young cashed-up fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) workers holidaying in southeast Asia are making the notorious disease more common among heterosexuals. "They go over with a group of mates, they have sex with half a dozen women or more, they may not be sober at the time when they're having sex. They can't recall wearing a condom," he told AAP. "They get back to the mine and their regular partners in Brisbane and they invariably have sex with them first and they then walk into the clinic anxious." Dr van Lieshout, who works at the Biala Community Health Centre, said that as recently as this month a FIFO worker had come to the clinic and returned a positive HIV test. Fortunately his girlfriend tested negative. Treasurer Chris Bowen on Monday promised $3.5 million to keep the Brisbane-based clinic open if federal Labor is re-elected. He hit out at Premier Campbell Newman's public service cuts, which he says have had major impacts on the state's health system. Dr van Lieshout said the issue transcended politics and he would happily accept funding from either side of government in an effort to stop the worrying new spread of HIV in the state. Rates will increase if the centre is forced to close, Dr Lieshout says. "We're going to see it coming in groups that aren't traditionally at risk groups and this includes heterosexually-acquired HIV and it's going to come from Southeast Asia and from people doing sex tours and that sort of thing," he said.
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