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As a result, many men who have sex with men delayed or avoided seeking health care altogether, especially for health problems that might mark them as homosexual, such as sexually transmitted diseases.Because the presence of other sexually transmitted diseases heightens the risk of HIV transmission, such discrimination may have fatal consequences.Visible symptoms heightened the discrimination they faced, which in turn created further barriers to obtaining treatment.People suffering from visible HIV-related symptoms were sometimes denied passage on public and private transportation, making it difficult to obtain any medical care at facilities beyond walking distance.
Police also actively support homophobic violence, fail to investigate complaints of abuse, and arrest and detain them based on their alleged homosexual conduct.
Homosexual: a person attracted primarily to people of the same sex.
Lesbian: a female attracted primarily to other females.
In some cases, homophobic police violence is a catalyst for violence and serious – sometimes lethal – abuse by others.
On June 18, 2004, a mob chased and reportedly "chopped, stabbed and stoned to death" a man perceived to be gay in Montego Bay.
Jamaica's growing HIV/AIDS epidemic is unfolding in the context of widespread violence and discrimination against people living with and at high risk of HIV/AIDS, especially men who have sex with men. Many Jamaicans believe that HIV/AIDS is a disease of homosexuals and sex workers whose "moral impurity" makes them vulnerable to it, or that HIV is transmitted by casual contact.