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AFRICAGAY

AFRICAGAY. Georges Kanuma ANSS BURUNDI. DESCRIPTION. Seroprevalence is higher among MSM in Africa Till now, MSM are ignored by the health politics Invisibility of MSM in Africa. INVISIBILITY OF GAYS IN SOUTH ?. LESSONS LEARNED Lack of prevention materials and access to medical care,

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AFRICAGAY

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  1. AFRICAGAY Georges Kanuma ANSS BURUNDI

  2. DESCRIPTION • Seroprevalence is higher among MSM in Africa • Till now, MSM are ignored by the health politics • Invisibility of MSM in Africa

  3. INVISIBILITY OF GAYS IN SOUTH ? • LESSONS LEARNED • Lack of prevention materials and access to medical care, • Obstacle to include gays on the civil society • Easy identification of gays by common group, • High risk on visibility of gays actors on HIV prevention

  4. INVISIBILITY OF GAYS IN SOUTH ? • LGBTI groups and HIV/AIDS NGO’s cried for help and AIDES a French organisation organized 3 meetings in 2007-2008 : • 26 participants from 9 African francofone countries were presents • AIMS • To help introduce MSM issues in mainstream HIV organisation’s framework. • To create a suitable space for dialog and exchange. • To bring together MSM and mainstream HIV group together for the purpose of analyzing the impact of HIV on MSM communities. • To identify futur common projects and explore the importance of an alliance work

  5. The visibility of recognizing gay actors on public Health • Project : to mobilize and to strenghthen all civil society actors to make interventions among MSM in Africa • Intern capacity building on fighting against HIV/AIDS (intern tolerance, political implication) • To involve MSM actors on HIV prevention (capacities, skills and action plan) • To build a capacity in all structures to respond on MSM hostil context (advocacy)

  6. Thank you for your attention • Specially thanks to AIDES and all my friends of Africagay

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