Check out this new policy brief – HIV Prevention with MSM: Balancing Evidence with Rights-based Principles of Practice – from the Global Forum on MSM and HIV. The document details the current context for the development and implementation of HIV prevention efforts targeting MSM, provides an overview of current MSM-specific HIV prevention strategies, and offers a look Read More >>

via Jamaica BSERVER, by Patricia Watson “The threats of criminal indictment and socio-religious discrimination against man-to-man sexual relationships have contributed to the increased vulnerability of MSMs to HIV,” said Cruickshank.  “Consequent to such discrimination, many MSMs are afraid of going to a pharmacy to purchase condoms and personal lubricant which are sometimes so precariously placed close to Read More >>

The Global Forum on MSM and HIV  has published a new policy brief, Reaching Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM) in the Global HIV & AIDS Epidemic.  This document provides an introduction to HIV among gay men and other MSM and identifies key strategic areas that are essential to turning the tide of the epidemic.

As part of his official visit to Washington, D.C., UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé participated in the Forum on HIV, Human Rights and Men Who Have Sex with Men on 16 September 2009. The event was organized by UNAIDS in collaboration with the HIV Policy Working Group on Men Who Have Sex with Men and Other Sexual Read More >>

via Aidsmap, by Michael Carter HIV prevalence is significantly higher amongst men who have sex with men in Laos (Lao People’s Democratic Republic) than any other group in the country, according to a study published in the January 28th edition of AIDS. The study was conducted in the capital, Vientiane, and found that 6% of men who Read More >>

Butler LM, Osmond DH, Jones AG, Martin JN. Source. From the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA. lbutler@psg.ucsf.edu OBJECTIVES: Compared with other sexually active adults, men who have sex with men (MSM) are more frequently infected with several pathogens including cytomegalovirus, hepatitis B virus, and Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus. Read More >>

We must envision a day when we are reflexivelyempathetic to gay men. Homophobia—multiplied nineteen times by Jim Pickettin the November/December 2008 issue of Positively Aware So, as it turns out, efforts (and the lack thereof) to eradicate HIV across the globe are systematically ignoring, denying, under-serving, and failing gay men and other men who have sex with Read More >>

The following is an excerptsfrom a speech given by UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot at a pre-conference event called “The Invisible Men: Gay Men and Other MSM [Men Who Have Sex With Men] in the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic.” The meeting was sponsored by the Global Forum on MSM & HIV. IRMA presented at this meeting. Click here Read More >>

IRMA made the Global Voice (La Voz Global) yesterday – the official newspaper of the AIDS 2008 conference… See below. Here is the link to the full issue. Segregation has played an important role in the fact that, in certain countries, MSM, or ‘men who have sex with men’, have been affected in greater numbers than in Read More >>

It was a bit of a travel nightmare for IRMA´s Jim Pickett. Just because he was scheduled to arrive in Mexico City in the late evening of Thursday, July 31 – to be ready to participate and present at the “Invisible Men” pre-conference the following morning – did not make it so. Numerous nail-biting delays and narrowly Read More >>