Publications on Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM)

This Resource Estimation Tool for Advocacy (RETA) User’s Guide is a companion to RETA. RETA is a Microsoft Office Excel‐based tool that will help you calculate the resources you need to implement the Comprehensive Package of HIV Prevention Services for Men Who Have Sex with Men.

A regional discussion on HIV transmission in intimate partner relationships was initiated by UNAIDS through a regional meeting on Women and HIV in Cambodia in July 2006. Subsequently, UNAIDS convened a satellite session at the 8th International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific at Colombo in August 2007, and some countries started to work on desk reviews.

This survey presents a snapshot of themes affecting programming for men who have sex with men (MSM), for a group of men who have been having sexual relations with men for some time and are in contact with services.

This document summarizes the findings of the third round of the IBBS conducted among 400 MSM in the Kathmandu Valley in 2009.

Between October- November 2008, a small rapid assessment of male adolescent sexual exploitation and abuse, along with HIV risk and vulnerability among males who have sex with males, was conducted in Kabul, Kandahar and Maz-e-Sharif in Afghanistan. Preceding this, a scoping mission, a literature review, and a training workshop for the study teams were conducted.

Avert Society has been conducting BSS in seven priority districts of the Maharashtra state since 2004 and completed Wave V in 2009.

Department of Health (DH) commissioned the Chinese University of Hong Kong to repeat the PRiSM survey in 2008.

In 2003 the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation began its large HIV prevention program, the India AIDS Initiative, later called Avahan, to curtail the spread of HIV in India. At the time, there was an understandable sense of urgency about the rising prevalence of HIV in the world's second most populous country.

In 2008 a behavioural surveillance survey of men who have sex with men was conducted in Timor-Leste.

This study examined the experience of PLHIV with linkages to PLHIV support organizations and services in areas of HIV counselling and testing, ART adherence, treatment of opportunistic infections (OIs) and healthcare providers’ (HCPs) attitude toward the targeted marginalized groups. This brief focuses on the findings in relation to IDUs living with HIV.