SA men - time for introspection/renewed action?

SA men-time for introspection/renewed action?

Well … ponder the findings and science behind a groundbreaking local study being piloted in the Western Cape, so highly rated that senior advisors to President Barack Obama and his deputy Joe Biden in the White House have discussed using the methodology to run a similar project in Washington DC. It's designed to engage primary care providers (nurses and doctors) in recognising patients living w...

Action Figures and Men

Three studies were conducted to determine whether action figures contributed to negative body images in the young adult men who handled them. In Study 1 and Study 2, participants were randomly assigned to different conditions to handle action figures with different muscularity levels. The participants were instructed to place the action figures into various positions for a set time limit. Follo...

HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men in the Czech Republic, 2016: high time for targeted action

Reported incidence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the Czech Republic increased steeply over the past decade from 90 new cases in 2005 to 266 in 2015. This increase is almost exclusively attributed to sexual transmissions between men who have sex with men (MSM). In 2015, there were 79% (n=210) newly diagnosed cases among MSM, 17% (n=45) were attributed to heterosexual transmi...

HIV infection among men who have sex with men in East and South-East Asia - time for action.

Although the early HIV epidemic in Asia was characterised by HIV spread predominantly through injecting drug use, sexual transmission of HIV has increased throughout many parts of Asia. For the past 5 years, alarming rates in HIV infection have been observed among men who have sex with men (MSM) across urban areas in many Asian countries, with the HIV prevalence rates ranging from 30.8% in Bang...

[Time for action].