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 …

This title is going to raise a few eyebrows, but keep reading and you might be surprised. In an abstract presented at the Fifteenth Conference of the British HIV Association in Liverpool, Fox and colleagues investigated the reasons behind irregular condom use in long term serodiscordant couples (where one partner is HIV-positive, the other HIV-negative).
Thirty of the 38 couples interviewed were gay men and amongst the reasons they gave for not using condoms were a failure to understand the mechanisms of HIV transmission, emotional reasons (intimacy and trust being important …

Three snippets of information selected from today’s news.
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Clinical trials are often controversial when they take place in developing countries where there is a risk that participants do not always understand what they are taking part in or where there is a danger that once the trial is over, they will be left alone to deal with possible side effects.

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The most controversial, if not the only controversial idea put forward by E. Pisani in her book The Wisdom of Whores, is what she sees as the next logical step after opt-out testing for HIV: requiring “people who are getting free AIDS drug to show up for prevention service, too.” She is well aware that activists who have ripened in a “culture of confidentiality” would be horrified.
Now imagine that this was happening, that to ensure that patients adhere to their treatment they receive each month free call time on their …