gay men

Remember a couple of years ago when the LA Gay and Lesbian Center ran ads like the one above?

Lot's of folks - gay and not - got their panties in a knot about this campaign.

"It´s not a gay disease anymore. The 'face of AIDS´has changed"

"A disease cannot have a sexuality."

"This campaing stigmatizes us even more."

And yadda yadda. Fact is - then and now - HIV is quite prevalent among gay men and men who have sex with men the world over, alarmingly so. In the United States and all over the place. Read previous blog posts right here that, sadly, tragically. back these claims up.

Pretending HIV is somehow a generalized epidemic just doesn´t sit with the facts in MOST of the world. Making believe that AIDS is everyone´s business, and that everyone is at risk, does no one a favor.  read more »

Translated Document to Enhance Rectal Microbicide Advocacy in the Spanish-Speaking World

Friday, August 1, 2008

Mexico City, Mexico – International Rectal Microbicide Advocates (IRMA) released "Menos Silencio, Más Ciencia" in Mexico City yesterday at a presentation preceding the 17th International AIDS Conference.
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Okay, so I am looking at the Programme-at-a-Glance feature on the AIDS 2008 website. "Very handy!" I think. I am starting to plug in the various "roadmaps" or tracks, or to help me build the itinerary I want to follow throughout the conference.

Okay, found "HIV Preventon Research" - got it, click.

I start to look for gay men. Nada.

MSM. Zilch.

There are about 30 or so roadmaps to choose from, including Women and AIDS, Youth, Faith Based, People Living with HIV and dozens more targeting all kinds of issues via all kinds of angles. Criminalization, Mobilization, Globalization, Accountability and Action, Children's Issues, Treatment Literacy - all quite fascinating I'm sure...

But not one roadmap for gay men and other men who have sex with men?

In much of the world - both developed and developing - we damn well know that gay men and MSM make up a huge percentage of the epidemic

And there is not one roadmap that hones in on them. Not. One.

THIS IS RIDICULOUS.

PLEASE TELL ME I AM MISSING SOMETHING!?!  read more »

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