HIV/AIDS and constructs of gay community: researching educational practice within community-based health promotion for gay men

Dowsett, Gary W.; Bollen, Jonathan; McInnes, David; Couch, Murray; Edwards, Barry

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“…[11][12][13][14][15] This was also a time of consolidation of national HIV/AIDS policies that shifted from the innovative, community and crisis-driven time of the early epidemic to a more 'traditional' and 'institutionalised' response that had 'seen a growing resistance to community participation'. 16 There were claims of redirected resources to other health issues, increasing conservatism in relation to strategies and funding to HIV, and the reduced participation of affected communities or service providers within peak ministerial committees for HIV. 17 From 1999 to 2006, there were small but steady increases in HIV diagnosis in Australia (Fig.…”

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Mobilisation, politics, investment and constant adaptation: lessons from the Australian health‐promotion response to HIV

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Crooks

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Health Prom J of Aust

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The experience of the response to HIV, including its successes and failures, has lessons applicable across health promotion. This includes the need to harness community mobilisation and action; sustain participation, investment and leadership across the partnership; commit to social, political and structural approaches; and build and use evidence from multiple sources to continuously adapt and evolve. So what? The Australian HIV response was one of the first health issues to have the Ottawa Charter embedded from the beginning, and has many lessons to offer broader health promotion and common challenges. As a profession and a movement, health promotion needs to engage with the interactions and synergies across the promotion of health, learn from our evidence, and resist the siloing of our responses.

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Mobilisation, politics, investment and constant adaptation: lessons from the Australian health‐promotion response to HIV

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Crooks

et al. 2014

Health Prom J of Aust

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“…But, the contribution of gay communities is largely assumed, untheorized, and under-researched. This report concerns itself with one aspect-injecting drug use (IDU) by gay men-of the ways in which a gay community plays out its influence and develops its practices in response of the threats of HIV/AIDS and, more recently in Australia (and elsewhere), of the growing epidemic of hepatitis C. The paper derives from an ongoing investigation that underpins a series of studies over the last eighteen years involving the lead author and many colleagues, which have addressed, in part or as well, the ways gay community as a social construct is involved, implicated, configured, deployed, and understood in these epidemics (e.g., Dowsett 1996bDowsett , 2003Dowsett, Bollen, McInnes, Couch, & Edwards, 2001;Kippax, Connell, Dowsett, & Crawford, 1993). These studies have all been social science efforts, mostly used qualitative methodologies, and all had a primary focus: understanding HIV prevention and sexual behavior change.…”

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“…Darwin (the capital of the Northern Territory) also followed similar issues, often using comparative research methods (Dowsett, Bollen, et al, 2001;Hurley & Dowsett, 1994). The study reported on here is the first undertaken by the authors in Melbourne, Australia's second largest city and the capital of the state of Victoria.…”

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Good gay men don’t get “Messy”: Injecting drug use and gay community

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This paper reports on an ethnographic exploration of gay men who inject drugs in Melbourne, Australia's second largest city, and demonstrates a further diversification of gay men's lives, characterized previously as living in a "post AIDS" era (Dowsett 1996a). It suggests that gay community plays a crucial part in some men's accounts of drug use and shapes their experience of drug injection. Injection remains an abject act, which the gay community is reticent to discuss, with consequences for gay men's health, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, sex, and gay community. The reticence positions drug taking (particularly drug injection) as an individual issue and as a violation of practices of self care that results both from gay men's culture of drug use and from the experience of otherness reported by gay injectors. This paper explores emerging paradoxes for gay men in relation to sex, drugs, relationality, sociality, community, and health.

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“…These limitations in the data demonstrate one of the primary difficulties in conducting HIV prevention with gay men in Sydney – a city that has benefited from sustained community‐based HIV prevention efforts from the beginning of the epidemic 15 . According to these data it is likely that HIV prevention PEWs can significantly increase perceived levels of knowledge around sexual health and skills in condom use, even against a background of such high perceived sexual health capacity.…”

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“…In Sydney, Australia, peer education most commonly takes the form of group‐based, multi‐session, volunteer‐facilitated workshops implemented by a community‐based HIV organisation in the local gay community, ACON (formerly known as the AIDS Council of NSW) 12–14 . Peer education workshops (PEWs) have been continuously conducted with gay men in Sydney since 1988, 14 long before there was evidence of the effectiveness of this approach and often without reference to academic and traditional public health discourse 15 . The PEW model that evolved in Australia implicitly contained the four components of the most effective behavioural HIV interventions among gay and other MSM worldwide 3 .…”

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Assessing the effectiveness of HIV prevention peer education workshops for gay men in community settings

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Gray²,

Prestage³

2013

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Objective : To use existing evaluation data of community‐based HIV prevention peer education workshops (PEWs) for gay men to explore the challenges in evaluating such programs in community settings. Methods : Data came from 33 PEWs conducted with gay and bisexual men. A basic pre/post‐test design was used to measure sexual health capacity. The Sexual Health Capacity Scale (SHCS) was anonymously completed before participation and twice afterward, with the men measuring perceptions of themselves before participation and perceptions of themselves after participation. The anonymous nature of the SHCS created problems for matching data so, for the most part, independent samples tests were used for analysis. Results : Overall, 399 gay and bisexual men participated in PEWs. Participants perceived themselves as having more sexual health capacity after participation than before (p<0.001). Those who had previously been HIV tested before the PEW had higher perceived capacity (p<0.001). Conclusions and Implications : Participation in the PEWs appeared to increase the perceived sexual health capacity of gay and bisexual male participants. Several limitations in the data arose from issues in the original data collection. A mixture of anonymous and identifiable data‐sources meant that data could not always be matched to individuals. Stronger partnerships between HIV researchers and professionals within community organisations could significantly improve evaluation of the effectiveness of HIV peer education.

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HIV/AIDS and constructs of gay community: researching educational practice within community-based health promotion for gay men

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Mobilisation, politics, investment and constant adaptation: lessons from the Australian health‐promotion response to HIV

Mobilisation, politics, investment and constant adaptation: lessons from the Australian health‐promotion response to HIV

Good gay men don’t get “Messy”: Injecting drug use and gay community

Assessing the effectiveness of HIV prevention peer education workshops for gay men in community settings

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