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Contents:

• WHY ARE GAY MEN MORE AT RISK FOR HIV?
• HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• DO ALL GAY PEOPLE HAVE AIDS?
• DISCRIMATN AND HOMOPHOBIA FUEL THE HIV EPIMIC GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
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OR ARE YOU NEW TO THIS FIELD? CURAT LEARNG OPPORTUNI FOR YOU, AND THE PEOPLE YOU SERVE AND LLABORATE WH.STAY UP TO DATE WH THE WEBARS, TWTER CHATS, NFERENC AND MORE THIS SECTN.MORE LEARNG OPPORTUNIBLOGGET TTED. FD SERVIC + PREPSEARCHGOESPAñOL ESPAñOL ES GET TTED. FD SERVIC + PREPSEARCHOPEN LOTOR SEARCHHIV SERVICES LOCATORSEARCH⨯CLOSEHOMEBLOGCDC RELEAS VAL SIGNS ON HIV AND GAY AND BISEXUAL MENCDC RELEAS VAL SIGNS ON HIV AND GAY AND BISEXUAL MENCONTENT FROM: •PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER 30, 2021•1 M READTOPICSCDCCENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTNGAY & BISEXUAL MENGAY & BISEXUAL MENWORLD AIDS DAYSHARESHARE ON FACEBOOKSHARE ON TWTERSHARE ON LKEDINSHARE ON EMAILTODAY, CDC RELEASED A NEW VAL SIGNS REPORT ON HIV AND GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN. ACRDG TO THIS REPORT, SPE PROGRS RCG NEW HIV FECTNS AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN OVERALL, THE HIV EPIMIC NTUED AND WAS MORE SEVERE AMONG BLACK/AIN AMERIN AND HISPANIC/LATO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN OM 2010 THROUGH 2019. THIS REPORT, LNCHED ON THE EVE OF WORLD AIDS DAY (DECEMBER 1), LOOKS AT THE HEALTH EQUI THAT EXIST HIV PREVENTN, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN.READ THE REPORT TO LEARN ABOUT THE NEW FDGS AND WHAT N BE DONE TO RCE THE DISPARI.READ THE FULL MMWR.RELATED BLOGSJUL 17, 2023ANNIVERSARY OF FDA APPROVAL OF PREP3 M READLISTEN(1)WATCH(1)DOWNLOAD(, )JUN 26, 2023THE IMPORTANCE OF NATNAL HIV TTG DAY: LEARS’ REFLECTNS2 M READLISTEN(1)WATCH(1)DOWNLOAD(, )JUN 26, 2023CDC DEAR COLLEAGUE MSAGE: NATNAL HIV TTG DAY2 M READLISTEN(1)WATCH(1)DOWNLOAD(, )SIGN UP TO RECEIVE EMAIL UPDAT OF BLOG POSTS (AND MORE!)TOPICS & ADDITIONAL RESOURCESTOPICSCDCCENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTNGAY & BISEXUAL MENGAY & BISEXUAL MENWORLD AIDS DAYWAS THIS PAGE HELPFUL?WAS THIS PAGE HELPFUL? Y NONEXT FORM APPROVED OMB# 0990-0379 EXP. 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WHY ARE GAY MEN MORE AT RISK FOR HIV?

Sce the HIV epimic started the 1980s gay men have been at a greater risk and reprented more of the new HIV s that we’ve known this untry and actually ternatnally as well.

HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

It’s bee we live a high HIV prevalent society among gay men and then also bee some of the behavrs that we engage may put more at risk for HIV. Many health re and mental health anizatns foced on the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny also offer substance e treatment or may be able to provi rmatn about lol rourc. And rearch has shown that gay men and other men who have sex wh men experience timate partner vlence at a higher rate than do other men.

DO ALL GAY PEOPLE HAVE AIDS?

Social and stctural issu—such as HIV stigma, homophobia, discrimatn, poverty, and limed accs to high-qualy health re—fluence health out and ntue to drive equi. For gay and bisexual youth who are jt begng to explore their sexualy, homophobia and other forms of anti-LGBTQ bias help expla why so many young people our muny are unaware of their HIV stat. The natn also saw tremendo progrs the fight agast HIV unr former Print Barack Obama, whose Natnal HIV & AIDS Strategy explicly lled attentn to gay and bisexual men and transgenr women for the first time.

DISCRIMATN AND HOMOPHOBIA FUEL THE HIV EPIMIC GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

Over the last 30 years, efforts to prevent new HIV fectns among gay and bisexual men have been guid by paradigms that hold dividuals rponsible for their health behavrs.

More recently, wh the game-changg breakthroughs the bmedil arena, attentn has shifted to the bmedil preventn strategi, which clu preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for gay, bisexual, and other MSM (Grant et al., 2010) and vagal microbicis for women (Abdool et al., 2010). In rponse to the alarmg health dispari among gay and bisexual men, there has been a ll to broan the preventn lens to exame the fluence of multiple social and ntextual factors fluencg health behavrs (Halkis & Cahill, 2011).

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OR ARE YOU NEW TO THIS FIELD? CURAT LEARNG OPPORTUNI FOR YOU, AND THE PEOPLE YOU SERVE AND LLABORATE WH.STAY UP TO DATE WH THE WEBARS, TWTER CHATS, NFERENC AND MORE THIS SECTN.MORE LEARNG OPPORTUNIBLOGGET TTED. FD SERVIC + PREPSEARCHGOESPAñOL ESPAñOL ES GET TTED. FD SERVIC + PREPSEARCHOPEN LOTOR SEARCHHIV SERVICES LOCATORSEARCH⨯CLOSEHOMEBLOGCDC RELEAS VAL SIGNS ON HIV AND GAY AND BISEXUAL MENCDC RELEAS VAL SIGNS ON HIV AND GAY AND BISEXUAL MENCONTENT FROM: •PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER 30, 2021•1 M READTOPICSCDCCENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTNGAY & BISEXUAL MENGAY & BISEXUAL MENWORLD AIDS DAYSHARESHARE ON FACEBOOKSHARE ON TWTERSHARE ON LKEDINSHARE ON EMAILTODAY, CDC RELEASED A NEW VAL SIGNS REPORT ON HIV AND GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN. ACRDG TO THIS REPORT, SPE PROGRS RCG NEW HIV FECTNS AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN OVERALL, THE HIV EPIMIC NTUED AND WAS MORE SEVERE AMONG BLACK/AIN AMERIN AND HISPANIC/LATO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN OM 2010 THROUGH 2019. THIS REPORT, LNCHED ON THE EVE OF WORLD AIDS DAY (DECEMBER 1), LOOKS AT THE HEALTH EQUI THAT EXIST HIV PREVENTN, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN.READ THE REPORT TO LEARN ABOUT THE NEW FDGS AND WHAT N BE DONE TO RCE THE DISPARI.READ THE FULL MMWR.RELATED BLOGSJUL 17, 2023ANNIVERSARY OF FDA APPROVAL OF PREP3 M READLISTEN(1)WATCH(1)DOWNLOAD(, )JUN 26, 2023THE IMPORTANCE OF NATNAL HIV TTG DAY: LEARS’ REFLECTNS2 M READLISTEN(1)WATCH(1)DOWNLOAD(, )JUN 26, 2023CDC DEAR COLLEAGUE MSAGE: NATNAL HIV TTG DAY2 M READLISTEN(1)WATCH(1)DOWNLOAD(, )SIGN UP TO RECEIVE EMAIL UPDAT OF BLOG POSTS (AND MORE!)TOPICS & ADDITIONAL RESOURCESTOPICSCDCCENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTNGAY & BISEXUAL MENGAY & BISEXUAL MENWORLD AIDS DAYWAS THIS PAGE HELPFUL?WAS THIS PAGE HELPFUL? Y NONEXT FORM APPROVED OMB# 0990-0379 EXP. 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Dpe clear evince for the social termants of HIV transmissn and the beneficial effects of stctural terventns (Adimora & Auerbach, 2010), there have been limed efforts targetg the social equali, which place gay and bisexual men at greater risk for the acquisn of HIV disease.

Of particular relevance to HIV preventn among gay and bisexual men are the social ndns that place at heightened risk for acquirg HIV as pared to our heterosexual unterparts.

In this article, nsiratn is given to the manner through which discrimatn and homophobia, which may have been heightened bee of the AIDS epimic (Halkis, 1999), perpetuate HIV vulnerabili for gay and bisexual men.

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Such health vulnerabili driven by homophobia are often exacerbated for gay and bisexual men of lor, who are often further burned by the social circumstanc of racism and poverty. Sce discrimatn based on sexual inty is cril to the ias beg put forth, and sce the HIV preventn needs of gay and bisexual men differ wily om those of non-gay or bisexual MSM (Halkis, 2010b), the foc of this issue of the newsletter is on gay and bisexual men, and not MSM general. In the now historic document, which recently reached s 30th anniversary, the CDC (1981) reported five s of Pnmocystis rii pnmonia young gay men who otherwise should have been healthy.

Wh bewilrment and fear, I read Robert Altman’s (1981) acunt of “doctors New York and California [who] have diagnosed among homosexual men 41 s of a rare and often rapidly fatal form of ncer. ” In the followg years, I wnsed the eptn of the disease, which s early years was given the name GRID (gayrelated immunoficiency disease) bee of s omniprence the gay populatn (Shilts, 2007; Weeks & Almo, 2010). However, spe the fact that the disease no longer remas nfed solely to gay and bisexual men, the realy is that this segment of the populatn is the one most affected by this epimic.

In the semal 1998 Amerin Psychologist article, Walter Batchelor warned that “AIDS still attacks homosexual and bisexual men great numbers” (p. Male populatn 18–44 years of age (Chandra, Mosher, Copen, & Snean, 2011), MSM, primarily gay and bisexual men, acunt for more than 50 percent of all AIDS s and all HIV fectns and 57 percent all new HIV fectns (CDC, 2011b).

Dpe creased visibily, acceptance and recent socpolil advanc, gay and bisexual men ntue to live a society that privileg heterosexualy while nigratg nonheterosexual relatnships, behavrs and inti (Herek, Gillis, & Cogan, 2009).

Opprsive social stctur and equali affectg gay and bisexual men have been implited perpetuatg not only the HIV epimic but also rat of anal ncer, Hepatis B, human papillomavis (HPV) and lymphogranuloma vernrm (LGV) fectns, syphilis, gonorrhea and Hepatis C (Wolski & Fenton, 2011).

The stctural ndns, which take the form of discrimatn and homophobia (Wolistki & Fenton, 2011; Wolski, Stall, & Validiserri, 2008), are further pound by racism and enomic dispari for gay and bisexual men of lor. Exposure to and experienc of homophobia have been implited substance abe, risky sexual behavrs, negative body image, suici attempts, creased strs and limed social support among gay and bisexual men (Halkis, Fischgnd, & Parsons, 2005; Mayer, Bradford, Makadon, Stall, & Goldhammer, 2008; Wolski, Stall, Valdiserri, 2008). Moreover, experienc wh homophobia have been shown to terfere wh the abily of gay and bisexual men to tablish and mata longterm same-sex relatnships, which protect agast HIV acquisn (Diaz, Ayala, Be, Henne, & Mar, 2001).

The experienc of homophobia may exert their effects on sexual risk takg directly by exacerbatg mental health burn (Halkis, 2010b; Johnson, Carri, Chney, & Mor, 2008). Experienc wh opprsn and homophobia, which tend to perva fay, school and muny settgs, are pecially relevant for gay and bisexual young men, who are the procs of tablishg their personal inti.

G., immigrants) who grow up wh people like themselv and who receive the support of their fai, gay and bisexual youth equently have more plited and often abive fay dynamics (D’Augelli, Hershberger, & Pilkgton, 1998; Pilkgton & D’Augelli, 1995). (2009) monstrated that gay and bisexual men wh histori of childhood sexual abe were more likely to report both unprotected anal terurse, to rive fewer benefs om participatn preventn programs, and to be at an overall greater risk for HIV fectn.

Recently our rearch team at the Center for Health Inty, Behavr and Preventn Studi (CHIBPS) at New York Universy documented the risks and rilienci of young gay and bisexual men ag 13–29 a study named Project Dire. My scholarship was paid for by my fay and I was given a r for my graduatn and everythg was good and as soon as I told them I was gay...

In their qualative study of masculy, Phoenix, Frosh, and Pattman (2003) found that boys as young as 11 years of age have found crilly important to prent themselv as mascule orr to avoid beg bullied and labeled as gay. Unfortunately, the cultural perceptn of gay and bisexual mal as ls mascule may lead to their assertns of masculy through engagement unprotected sexual behavrs (Halkis, Green, & Wilton, 2004; Harper, 2007). Scientific evince shows that gay men’s doubts about their masculy as well as endorsement of mascule characteristics are associated wh equent risky sexual behavrs, which crease exposure to HIV (Connell, 1995; Diaz, 1998).

Life experienc wh opprsn and homophobia often bee ternalized and n have trimental effects on the velopment of posive sexual inty (Rowen & Mallm, 2002).

Posive attus toward one’s sexual inty have been shown to be protective agast risky sexual behavrs (Rosar, Hunter, Maguen, Gwadz, & Smh, 2001), while elevated rat of ternalized homophobia have been lked to exacerbated sexual risk takg and other health risks. Others nted their experienc of homophobia relatn to anized relign, as monstrated the ments of one 28-year-old HIV-negative Black man:. But like wh a lot of men who have sex wh men, pecially men who have sex wh men of lor, ’s like — like the ternalized issue — the homophobia wh our cultur — the whole issue wh beg an abomatn to God.

(2008) monstrated that among 465 HIV-posive men, ternalized homophobia was associated wh unprotected receptive anal terurse wh partners who were HIV-negative or of unknown HIV stat and was also associated wh poorer adherence to antiretroviral therapy.