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Why a new approach to prevention is important

Blog Category: action, advocacy, agenda, HIV prevention, policy, HIV Health, HIV Testing, sex education — Blogged by: Keith on October 10, 2008 at 8:59 am

The current issue of HIV Plus Mag talks about the need to re-emphasize a specifically “gay” marketing campaign with respect to HIV prevention. Jim Picket from the AIDS Foundation of Chicago points out that up to now, the approach has been “the politically expedient path of of pushing a generalized epidemic in which ‘we are all at risk’”.

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Comment by Deb

October 10, 2008 @ 11:33 am

I frequently encounter the perception from people outside the community that HIV is primarily spread through dirty needles “nowadays” with the implication being that gay folks have “learned better” and moved on.

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