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Health educators should work with the inner contradictions that 'barebackers' express

When asked by researchers to talk about their practice of having ‘bareback’ sex (unprotected anal intercourse), HIV-negative gay and bisexual men express a contradiction between their concern

Published
08 June 2012
By
Roger Pebody
Mental and emotional health
TowelTalk: Inside Toronto’s Bathhouses

John McCullagh talks with Marco Posadas about TowelTalk, a bathhouse counselling program that seeks to address the psychosocial issues that have an impact on HIV risk for gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men.

Published
07 June 2012
From
PositiveLite
Behaviour change interventions
Reality vs. “Maximalist Precautions”

Bob Leahy on how HIV prevention messaging, doctors and researchers interpret risk for us – and why their messages don’t always match the way we deal with risk in our everyday lives.

Published
01 June 2012
From
Positive Lite
Injecting drug use
Pragmatism & pleasure protective for HCV? The Staying Safe Project

Keeping available veins healthy and functional is a major concern for people who inject drugs. This is often a much more immediate and practical concern than worries about hepatitis C transmission.

Published
29 May 2012
From
Exchange Supplies / You Tube
Behaviour change interventions
HIV prevention measures must include behavioral strategies to work, says APA

A drug that has been shown to prevent HIV infection in a significant number of cases must be combined with behavioral approaches if the US health care establishment is to succeed in reducing the spread of the virus, according to the American Psychological Association.

Published
15 May 2012
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
Behaviour change interventions
Clinic appeals to community to design new HIV awareness campaign

London sexual health clinic 56 Dean Street is asking members of the gay community to design an innovative HIV or sexual health awareness campaign.

Published
11 May 2012
From
Pink News
HIV prevention policy
How new technology is helping deliver sexual health services

Text services, apps and social media are being used to provide advice and information to young people

Published
10 May 2012
From
The Guardian
Behaviour change interventions
Op-ed: Digital Ways of Preventing HIV Are the Best Medicine

As digital technologies become integral to our lives, they have become equally central to innovative HIV education, prevention and care efforts. These technologies enable us to work together in ways never before possible, offering unprecedented opportunities to tackle the many barriers that make our communities vulnerable to HIV.

Published
26 April 2012
From
The Advocate
HIV prevention policy
Getting Heterosexual Black Men Involved in HIV Prevention

In order to fully address this epidemic head on, we have to include heterosexual African-American men. But how do we go about doing this given the stigma and homophobia in the black community? What work is being done now that is making an impact among this demographic? And where are the heterosexual men living with HIV who will speak out?

Published
24 April 2012
From
The Body
HIV prevention policy
US National Institutes of Health under fire for grants toward creation of homoerotic website

The National Institutes of Health has spent millions of dollars over the past decade to fund the construction of an HIV-prevention website that, among other sexually explicit features, includes a graphic image of homosexual sex and a Space Invaders-style interactive game that uses a penis-shaped blaster to shoot down gay epithets. 

Published
19 April 2012
From
Fox News
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