Thought for the Day...
Apr. 30th, 2002 09:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Okay. Assume Man X is HIV positive. Assume Man X. was infected by having sex with other men. Assume also that Man X. is not comfortable with the fact that he does have sex with men...therfore may or may not identify as gay, and is to a large extent, closeted.
Okay...now that we know a bit about Man X...
Consider, Man X is receiving treatment for his HIV, and is being medically managed. Consider that physician of Man X wants to put him onto some kind of antiviral therapy-not necessarily a complicated protease inhibitor regimen, but something antiviral.
What I'm wondering here is if Man X will be less compliant with his drugs than someone not closeted. I'm hypothesizing here that it's possible that Man X will be less compliant, and that it might have something to do with his closetedness...that the drug taking might remind him of the HIV which might then remind him of how he got infected. It all intersects the level of personal comfort with the sexual orientation piece.
Hrm....
Okay. Assume Man X is HIV positive. Assume Man X. was infected by having sex with other men. Assume also that Man X. is not comfortable with the fact that he does have sex with men...therfore may or may not identify as gay, and is to a large extent, closeted.
Okay...now that we know a bit about Man X...
Consider, Man X is receiving treatment for his HIV, and is being medically managed. Consider that physician of Man X wants to put him onto some kind of antiviral therapy-not necessarily a complicated protease inhibitor regimen, but something antiviral.
What I'm wondering here is if Man X will be less compliant with his drugs than someone not closeted. I'm hypothesizing here that it's possible that Man X will be less compliant, and that it might have something to do with his closetedness...that the drug taking might remind him of the HIV which might then remind him of how he got infected. It all intersects the level of personal comfort with the sexual orientation piece.
Hrm....
