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This advert was produced by GMFA to highlight the fact that you can’t be sure of someone’s HIV status by his looks, his behaviour, the sex he likes or where you meet.

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The expression “thinking outside the box” is one of the most ridiculous fad (common amongst idealist) I have ever heard and I uncontrollably cringe each time I hear it. Thinking outside the box is leading nowhere. Imagine you are lost in the middle of the Sahara with no water and no food, no amount of thinking outside the box if going to help you…
Great discovery and progress were made because people were thinking within the box. They knew the box very well and that’s why they could come up with …

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These animations have been produced by Mplus+ a grass roots community-based organisation formed to improve the sexual health of men that have sex with men (MSM), including transgenders, Thai male sex workers (MSW) and migrant male sex workers.
“These four animations aimed at increasing understandings of safe sex practices and addressing low perceptions of personal risk to HIV/AIDS. The project, an international collaboration, was undertaken because MSM and MSW were not adequately reached through HIV prevention programmes in Thailand because little was known about their particular situations, contexts and practices.”

Mplus+ Animation …

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In a clear and well argumented post (which title I borrowed) for NOMOREPOTLUCKS, Nicholas Little, an HIV outreach worker in bathhouses, bars and online chat rooms explains how stigma attached to being HIV positive puts HIV negative men at higher risk of HIV infection.
There is not much to add to the article but to emphasise the deep contradiction existing in the mind and attitude of like-to-believe HIV negative men: On the one hand, they naively expect and believe that HIV positive guys will disclose their status before sex, but on …