Title
A call to action for comprehensive HIV services for men who have sex with men
Date Issued
01 January 2012
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Beyrer C.
Sullivan P.S.
Sanchez J.
Dowdy D.
Altman D.
Trapence G.
Collins C.
Katabira E.
Kazatchkine M.
Sidibe M.
Mayer K.H.
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Where surveillance has been done, it has shown that men (MSM) who have sex with men bear a disproportionate burden of HIV. Yet they continue to be excluded, sometimes systematically, from HIV services because of stigma, discrimination, and criminalisation. This situation must change if global control of the HIV epidemic is to be achieved. On both public health and human rights grounds, expansion of HIV prevention, treatment, and care to MSM is an urgent imperative. Effective combination prevention and treatment approaches are feasible, and culturally competent care can be developed, even in rights-challenged environments. Condom and lubricant access for MSM globally is highly cost effective. Antiretroviral-based prevention, and antiretroviral access for MSM globally, would also be cost effective, but would probably require substantial reductions in drug costs in high-income countries to be feasible. To address HIV in MSM will take continued research, political will, structural reform, community engagement, and strategic planning and programming, but it can and must be done.
Start page
424
End page
438
Volume
380
Issue
9839
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Políticas de salud, Servicios de salud Ciencias socio biomédicas (planificación familiar, salud sexual, efectos políticos y sociales de la investigación biomédica)
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84864278160
PubMed ID
Source
The Lancet
ISSN of the container
01406736
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