As a volunteer for a gay men’s organisation I am sometimes involved in HIV prevention work in gay venues in central London. The organisation I work for develops posters, adverts and booklets to promote HIV prevention messages targeting a specific audience.
Recently, I was helping pre-testing our latest booklet to which I had also contributed. Therefore I knew what the booklet was about, which is usually not the case since editorial and testing teams are different. Over a period of two hours I interviewed ten people who agreed, some after a …

The french AIDES agency is at it again! Thanks to Elizabeth at Wisdom of Whores for spotting it.

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Gone are the days of gloom and doom HIV prevention and condom promotion. Largely, AIDS does not kill anymore in the developed world unless you are one of the vulnerable people that would-be-clever ads hardly ever reach.
So what about a change in perspective, what about the fun side of sex and what about using it to promote condoms? We know that people enjoy sex but we also know that condoms are sometimes a barrier to the funny side of sex. Part of this comes from the association of sex, HIV …

A shame it does not come with sound! From Stephan @ slideshare

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In an article for the Pink News, Ramsey Dehani questioned “modern” HIV prevention campaigns asking if they were failing younger generations. Observing that campaigns promoting condom use have more or less disappeared to be replaced by testing campaigns, Dehani noted that many people still die of ignorance and recalled a conversation he had with a 20-year-old gay student who was more concerned about getting gonorrhoea than HIV (statistically speaking, the youg guy in question was rather well informed).
Should HIV prevention campaigns target the blasé attitude of younger generations that have …