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 …

The column below is worth reprinting in full with a bit of background. recently started to write a regular piece for the Singapore-based gay website Fridae.com.
After three columns he had successfully alienated most of the Singaporean, Asian and Rice Queen Fridae members by writing against the flow on the subject of HIV prevention amongst MSM. In the instalment preceding the one reprinted below, Jan suggested more oral sex and less anal sex as an addition to the panoply of HIV prevention approaches. In no time he was assaulted from …

The pontifical position on condom, based on ignorance, fallacy and a struggle of the Church to survive, as well as the response of the scientific community and activists are well known and documented (search this blog for some examples of both). But in a “Reflection” to be published in The lancet Samuel Ponce de Leon and colleagues add more weight to the argument that condoms are an essential tool in the fight against HIV in the future: evolution.

Now evolution is something the Church is also in denial about despite the …

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As I was complaining that lateral thinking was dearly missing when it comes to condom promotion and sale, The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) and the Hindustan Latex Family Planning Promotion Trust (HLFPPT) installed two “camouflaged” vending machines in Mumbai as part of a ‘condom normalisation campaign’.
The originality of these Condom Vending Machines (CVM) is that they provide other general products like soaps and snacks too. “When we installed 3000 CVMs in Mumbai and Thane, we observed that people were still apprehensive about being noticed while operating the machine. So …