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Men who have sex with men (MSM)
HIV and Gay Media: The Vanishing Virus

HIV/AIDS has largely moved off the front page and out of public consciousness. What, then, is the responsibility of LGBT media in this climate of rising infection rates and a bored readership? Are they simply reflecting the community’s waning interest, or do they have a responsibility to keep HIV in the headlines, to serve as advocates for better public awareness?

Published
28 February 2013
From
My Fabulous Disease (blog)
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Is Unprotected Sex Becoming The Norm Amongst Gay Men? (Video)

Many are asking if there is a correlation between unprotected sex and an increase in HIV among gay and bisexual men in the United States.

Published
28 February 2013
From
Huffington Post
Sexually transmitted infections
New action plan launched to combat emerging threat of untreatable gonorrhoea in England and Wales

Gonorrhoea is the second most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI) in England. In 2011, new diagnoses rose to nearly 21,000, jumping 25 per cent in one year. Over a third of cases were in men who have sex with men, up from around a quarter in 2010.

Published
27 February 2013
From
Health Protection Agency
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
I'm HIV-Negative

Majorities tend to be silent, just like the overwhelming majority of gay men -- that is, the (approximately) four out of five gay men who are HIV-negative -- who rarely initiate conversations about HIV.

Published
27 February 2013
From
Huffington Post (blog)
Sexual transmission
Variations in genital shedding of HIV during menstrual cycle large enough to impact on risk of sexual transmission

Genital shedding of HIV varies considerably during the menstrual cycle, investigators report in the online edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases. The difference between peak and nadir

Published
25 February 2013
By
Michael Carter
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Gays can't have sex

'Gays can’t have sex. We can have only “safer sex” or “protected sex” (where condoms or any other form of barriers are used). The sad part of “protected sex” is that it implies that sex between men is not safe,...' - psychotherapiast Marco Posadas ponders whether 'safer sex' is having a damaging effect on gay men's self-image.

Published
22 February 2013
From
Xtra!
Contraception
Marge Berer on Depo-Provera and informed choice

From one perspective, a method that a woman need only renew once every three months was a gift. One injection four times a year and no fear of unwanted pregnancy. But the potential for abuse of this method was obvious from the beginning, and abuse there was, from paternalistic family planning providers.

Published
20 February 2013
From
BMJ Group blogs
Prisoners
US: HIV-Positive Inmates Too Expensive for Private Prison Operators?

How efficient is a privatized system of corrections that willfully omits inmates for whom medical care—especially treatments associated with HIV/AIDS—will be most costly?

Published
20 February 2013
From
CounterPunch
Promoting HIV testing
Dr Alan McOwan: Testing times

You are safer having unsafe sex with someone who is HIV positive and being treated than with someone who doesn’t know their status, says Dr Alan McOwan

Published
20 February 2013
From
Gay Star News
Behaviour change interventions
Saving Safe Sex: An Interview With Richard Berkowitz

The writer of the first safer sex manifesto for gay men talks about PrEP, gay culture and the profile documentary Sex Positive.

Published
19 February 2013
From
Huffington Post (blog)
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