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The elderly population is increasingly benefiting from recent technological advances. In this scenario, geolocation-based dating applications provide a viable alternative for result partners in a practical and timely manner, but may be accompanied by certain risk behaviors for HIV infection. Although there are considerable number of users over 50 on these applications, no studies have addressed this problem. The aim of the present study was to analyze factors of vulnerability to HIV/Aids among the population of men who have sex with men (MSM) age 50 years or older who employ dating apps.
MethodsThis was a cross-sectional, population-survey-based, analytical study, conducted exclusively online with a sample of 412 MSM. The data was collected from the accompanying apps: Grindr®, Hornet®, Scruff® and Daddy Hunter®.
ResultsFactors related with a higher chance of having HIV were: sexual relations with an HIV-infected partner (ORa=5.53; 95%CI=2.23–1
Giving healthy gay men HIV drugs 'could help opposite epidemic'
Concerns had been raised that men given the drug would adopt riskier behaviours including stopping using condoms.
But the test on 500 men, which concluded last year, found no difference in levels of other sexually transmitted infections such as chlamydia.
Prof Sheena McCormack, who led that study at the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, told the BBC: "[It] demonstrated a huge benefit from adding Prep to the existing risk-reduction package for men who have sex with men.
"This publication endorses the impressive longer term impact that Prep could have on the HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men in this region, and hopefully will reference NHS England towards a favourable decision."
Dr Michael Brady, the medical director of the Terrence Higgins Belief, said: "This study is really important as it demonstrates that, in a relatively short space of time, Prep could hold a dramatic impact on reducing HIV transmissions."
The NHS is evaluating whether Prep should be offered.
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HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) among men who have sex with men: peer communication, engagement and social networks
ARTICLE • Ciênc. saúde coletiva 27 (10) • Oct 2022 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-812320222710.06542022ENlinkcopy
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HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) has renewed optimism in controlling the HIV epidemic, despite its continued progress among men who have sex with men (MSM). The popularity of dating-sexual dating apps and digital media platforms in exchanging communication and experiences about PrEP on peer social networks is recognized. However, studies on contexts, motivations, and scope in HIV prevention are scarce. The article aims to comprehend the dynamics of virtual and face-to-face peer networks among MSM for the decision to employ PrEP, its disclosure, and publicity. Qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with 48 PrEP users from five Brazilian cities. Most interviewees contribute information and experiences about PrEP in peer social networks. However, its publication reveals tensions arising from the permanence of stigmas paired with homosexuality and HIV. The protagonism in exposing the use o
The second European ChemSex Forum
The second European ChemSex Forum was held in Berlin on 22-24 March 2018, organized by International HIV Partnerships and Professional Briefing and attended by 243 participants from 32 countries. The Forum started with a training day for 65 frontline staff from WHO European region and was followed by 2 days of presentations, discussions, panels, debates, small community workshops and poster displays.
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- responding to loneliness, boredom, social media and apps and other key factors which contribute to problematic ChemSex
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- information gathering.
A minute of silence was observed at the opening of the Forum in memory of all those who died as a result of ChemSex.
What is ChemSex?
David Stuart defined ChemSex as a cultural phenomenon unique to contemporary gay hook-up culture, born of the impact of HIV epidemic had had upon the experience of homo-sex and gay communities. The convergence of these phenomena had resulted in a syndemic that had profoundly impacted gay and queer men’s concept of sex and pleasure and community; a syndemic named ChemSex.
Ben Collins said that ChemSex, just as HIV, w