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 …

Despite an increase in intergenerational sex amongst female teenagers, despite an increase in the number of multiple partners amongst men age 15-24, despite a decrease in HIV prevention knowledge, the third South African National HIV survey conducted in 2008 showed a promising decline in the number of HIV infections amongst the 15-24 years old.
“HIV prevalence among adults aged 15-49 has declined between 2002 and 2008 in the Western Cape, Gauteng, Northern Cape and the Free State, with the largest decline of 7.9 percentage points in the Western Cape.”
This may well …

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 …

It has all the elements of your usual sex worker story, set in the busy alleyway of the red light district of an exotic town, a low-rise stage on which naked, sexy and sweaty bodies gyrate in the night on the sound of thumping music, a crowd of patrons eyeing at the right number, a dancer who believes that “the sex industry is like any other service-oriented profession”; but this time, the dancers are male and the patrons are female.
In a rare report for The Bangkok Post, Yvonne Bohwongprasert unveils …

Disco funerals or “Disco Matanga” in Swahili is a phenomenon observed in the municipality in Nyanza Province on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya, East Africa. These parties are organised at night, bring together the family of the deceased, their relatives, and are an important place for young people to hang out.
The phenomenon is poorly documented but in an article published in AIDS, Carolyne Njue and colleagues conducted 44 in-depth interviews with male and female adolescents aged 15–20 years in Kisumu and observed six disco funerals. They …