Entries by MSM Manager

MSM Community Symposium (Update – 1/3)

Over the weekend of June 28, 2014 we held our 2nd MSM Community Symposium – Time to Act forum.

The gay and MSM community is experiencing increasing numbers diagnosed with HIV infection every year. Many of the MSM who are diagnosed are young (29 years and below).

We took this opportunity for our stakeholders to unite, as a community, for a meeting to discuss the issue of HIV and MSM in Singapore and came up with some new & better ideas to stop the spread of the infection and to assist those with HIV/AIDS amongst us.

Element Magazine Relaunch

Element Magazine has been described as the first alternative high-fashion and lifestyle men’s journal with featured stories connected to the Asian LGBTQI community in particular, and it is launched and based in Singapore. The magazine was established by Noel Ng and Hiro Mizuhara in March 2013. The decision to launch the magazine on digital platforms enabled the publishers […]

Telling Him I Want a Condom

Sure, we know that condoms significantly reduce the risk of HIV transmission, but it isn’t always as easy as it sounds to have safer sex, even if you want to! Sometimes we don’t ask or insist on what we want because we’re afraid of rejection, or we might have other reasons. Every relationship has power […]

Singapore Goes Pink!

    Singapore, 22 May 2014 – The movement supporting the Freedom to Love returns for its sixth consecutive year with new Ambassadors, a community-focused campaign video, and a more interactive and reflective atmosphere at Speakers’ Corner in Hong Lim Park. This year, Pink Dot shines the spotlight on the community and their perspectives on […]

‘Worrying’ rise in HIV cases among gay men

The number of new cases of HIV and Aids in Singapore fell slightly last year to 454, 15 less than in 2012. However, the Action for Aids (AfA) group here said there has been a “worrying” rise in infections among homosexual men. The Ministry of Health revealed the figures yesterday, which also showed that the number […]