Red Ribbon Month - Cape Town
November is Red Ribbon Month. The Health4Men outreach team in Cape Town will be hosting three events in the lead up to World Aids Day on 1 December 2012.
SA antibody breakthrough ‘brings HIV vaccine closer’
SOUTH African scientists have discovered how some people can make potent antibodies capable of neutralising strains of HIV, taking researchers a step closer to developing a vaccine.
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PRIDE month in Gauteng
Three pride events are lined up in September through to early October.
Health4Men will be attending all three pride calendar dates and MSM (men who have sex with men) will be able to get sexual health information from trained professionals, free lube and condoms and also make use of the free HIV screening (with counseling) services at all three events.
Global Female Condom Day
Starting on September 1st, the National Female Condom Coalition is counting down to the first ever Global Female Condom Day which will be on 12 September.
Read more about this global movement and find out how female condoms apply to MSM (men who have sex with men) and their sexual health.
How to use the female condom for anal sex
A lot of men don’t know this fact, but the female condom can be used for anal sex. Maybe a little trickier to use than the conventional condom and it does take getting used to, but a lot of men do like to use it.
One of the benefits of female-condom use—besides its protection against STDs, including HIV, during anal and vaginal sex—is that it empowers receptive sexual partners to protect themselves whether or not their partner wants to use a traditional condom.
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Check your assumptions
We all make countless assumptions every day. We assume that in the morning the kettle and toaster will do their jobs, that the car will start or that our train will arrive at the station. We make assumptions about our partners, our family members, our colleagues and our friends, and about strangers. Our assumptions about our environment and the people around us are often based on nothing more than irrational notions, concepts, beliefs and attitudes which are very rarely based on fact.
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Top2Btm: Changing Manscapes Symposium
The AIDS Priorities symposium focusing on MSM will be held in
Cape Town on the 20 & 21 August 2012 at the Vineyard Hotel and Conference Centre
‘Cure’ research suggests new paths to HIV control
WASHINGTON — Three studies presented Thursday at a major world conference on AIDS show new ways that scientists are striving toward a cure for the three-decade-old disease.
One study focused on a group of 12 patients in France who began treatment on antiretroviral drugs within 10 weeks of becoming infected with human immunodeficiency virus, but then stopped the therapy.
The HIV virus stayed away for a median of six years in the group, known as the Visconti Cohort, which stands for “Virological and Immunological Studies in CONtrollers after Treatment Interruption.”
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