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for Comprehensive HIV Services for Men Who Have Sex with Men

Call to Action. for Comprehensive HIV Services for Men Who Have Sex with Men. Chris Beyrer, Patrick Sullivan, Jorge Sanchez, David Dowdy, Dennis Altman, Gift Trapence, Chris Collins, Elly Katabira, Michel Kazatchkine, Michel Sidibe, Kenneth H Mayer. Gay/hiv activist. Count us!.

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for Comprehensive HIV Services for Men Who Have Sex with Men

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  1. Call to Action for Comprehensive HIV Services for Men Who Have Sex with Men Chris Beyrer, Patrick Sullivan, Jorge Sanchez, David Dowdy, Dennis Altman, Gift Trapence, Chris Collins, Elly Katabira, Michel Kazatchkine, Michel Sidibe, Kenneth H Mayer

  2. Gay/hiv activist

  3. Count us! End invisibility in epidemiology, service delivery, decision making

  4. The Package of Services:HIV testingHIV treatmentCondoms & lubricantMental healthSubstance abuseProvider training

  5. Integrated Clinical Care • MSM are entitled to culturally competent health care that addresses their health needs • As major sources of information and vital services, health providers play a key role, and must be trained to provide supportive, non-judgmental care • Factors that may potentiate HIV risk, such as substance use and depression, require the skills of informed health care workers • But, MSM also have non-HIV health care needs that require comprehensive care

  6. Comprehensive Clinical Care • MSM should be treated as whole people, not just vectors of disease • Comprehensive care requires: • well-trained clinicians who understand the • conditions that are more common in MSM • knowledge that MSM are whole people with a range of non-HIV/STD health care needs • understanding that provider engagement can enable youth and older MSM to develop healthier lifestyles when they come out

  7. USD $134 million for condoms and lubricant sets a course toward averting 25% of global MSM HIV infections in the next 10 years

  8. “Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights”

  9. The Yogyakarta Principles • The right to • the universal enjoyment of human rights • the highest attainable standard of health • protection from medical abuses • found a family

  10. Global Commission on HIV and the Law • Laws criminalizing consensual adult same-sex relations undermine effective HIV programming for MSM • In many countries discriminatory and brutal policing is tacitly authorized by punitive laws and social attitudes • Decriminalization must be accompanied by measures to • prevent violence against MSM • enforcement of antidiscrimination laws • remove legal barriers to HIV and health services and forming community organizations

  11. ResearchPriorities • Epidemiology • Economics • Basic sciences • Promoting optimal care • Combination approaches • Testing promising approaches • Structural approaches • Social and cultural factors

  12. “…for the LGBT youth out there who are struggling, who are made to feel inferior, let me say this: God loves you as you are. He wants you to live and to thrive. So please take care of yourself, educate yourself about HIV, protect your partners, honor and cherish them. And never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity, you put a smile on God’s face.” 

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