Question

 

Scenario:

Your town identifies G-A-Y men at risk of HIV infection and forms a committee to help them. You are a member of this committee.

Answer the following questions – in the order given.

1. Why is this group at risk in the US? Give statistics and research to support your answer.
2. What arguments might the townspeople put up against providing assistance to this group? Give counter arguments to explain why it is a good idea to help them.
3. What are the key HIV prevention messages your committee would give to the identified group and how might you deliver them? [I.e. how would you get the messages to this community in a way they can trust, understand and relate to?] Try to find examples of other programs that have been successful with this group.
4. Is there anything you could do now as a university student to help HIV prevention in the group you have identified as at risk?

Answer 1

Homosexual, bisexual, and other men who have sex with mena are the population most affected by HIV in the United States. In 2017, adult and adolescent homosexual group and bisexual men made up 70% (27,000) of the 38,739 new HIV diagnosesc in the United States (US) and dependent areas.d Approximately 492,000 sexually active homosexual.men and bisexual men are at high risk for HIV; however, we have more tools to prevent HIV than ever before.

Republican or Democrat, man or woman, homosexualmen mayorsmayors are making a difference at "It's not fair to say to someone else, 'Stick up for me.

UNAIDS has called for combined approaches to HIV prevention to be scaled-up, to reinvigorate the global response and make a sustained impact on global HIV incidence rates.

Messages like using contraceptive products to prevent infection, maintain hygeine and not used the syringes which was used, proper care and diagnosis during blood transfusion, avoid multiple partners, Antiretroviral Treatment (ART), motivate or accept the G-A-Y group.