MSM Community Symposium (Update – 1/3)

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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.

The first session of the presentation was the HIV/STIs done by Prof. Roy Chan (NSC), Dr. Martin Chio (NSC) and A/Prof. Lee Cheng Chuan (CDC). The second session was from the clinical services for MSM by Anwar Hashim (AFA), Paul Toh Club Genesis support group and Avin Tan (AFA) followed by our community support group for intervention and education with Bryan Choong (Oogachaga), Hafiz Muhd (SG Rainbow) and Nathan Renga (The Purple Alliance).

We had a great turn out to the our event and with so many new and familiar faces. We also took this chance to launch our very own MSM website Gayhealth.sg for the MSM community in Singapore. Please visit www.gayhealth.sgfor the site.

We would like to thank all our community members for coming since Pink Dot was also having their event as well.

Stay tuned for more updates and summary from the symposium.

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Element Magazine Relaunch

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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 to side-step Singapore’s regulation of print media and meant it had no need to obtain a media license. It uses an Internet host  server in the United States.  Normative and positive depictions of gay people in mainstream media are currently banned in Singapore by the Media Development Authority (MDA). The magazine boasts an average digital circulation of more than 15,000 since its launch. It is also the organizer of Asia Pink Awards, a regional Awards event that celebrates those campaigning for LGBTQI acceptance in Asia.

 

The new design of Element magazine will be relaunch August 2014.  Visit http://www.elementmag.asia/

 

The number of homosexual and bisexual cases has risen from 166 in 2009 to 247 last year. Action for Aids says the rise could be due to the availability of effective anti-retroviral medication and a degree of "condom fatigue" in Singapore. -- ST FILE PHOTO - See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/health/story/worrying-rise-hiv-cases-among-gay-men-20140605#sthash.jGH56AcL.dpuf

‘Worrying’ rise in HIV cases among gay men

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The number of homosexual and bisexual cases has risen from 166 in 2009 to 247 last year. Action for Aids says the rise could be due to the availability of effective anti-retroviral medication and a degree of "condom fatigue" in Singapore. -- ST FILE PHOTO - See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/health/story/worrying-rise-hiv-cases-among-gay-men-20140605#sthash.jGH56AcL.dpuf

The number of homosexual and bisexual cases has risen from 166 in 2009 to 247 last year. Action for Aids says the rise could be due to the availability of effective anti-retroviral medication and a degree of “condom fatigue” in Singapore. — ST FILE PHOTO – See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/health/story/worrying-rise-hiv-cases-among-gay-men-20140605#sthash.jGH56AcL.dpuf

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 of homosexual and bisexual cases has risen from 166 in 2009 to 247 last year.

In contrast, the number of heterosexual men infected fell from 241 to 157 in the same period.

First Published: Straits Times