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We Are Members of This Community
Check out this educational awareness project about HIV/STDs for gay men, and men who don't identify as gay, but have sex with men. Wake County HIV/STD Community Program and the LGBT Center of Raleigh have formed a community partnership to deliver safer sex and STD prevention information in an easily accessible format via an internet website for Men who have Sex with Men (MSM). This website is needed because HIV incidence is rising steadily among gay men.
· In the latest year in the United States, 77 percent of new HIV infections occurred in men, 61 percent in MSM.
· The NC Epidemiological Profile Report also indicates that MSM activity in North Carolina accounted for 74% of all new adult/adolescent HIV disease, representing a 24 percent increase from 2004 to 2008. The breakdown of the new HIV cases by age group shows an alarming 89% of adolescent male age 13-24 years was associated with MSM activity.
This educational awareness project, "We Are Members Of This Community", includes information on HIV in both English and Spanish. There is also information on safer sex practices, symptoms of various sexually transmitted diseases, videos about STD's in Wake County and other important information including counseling and testing locations and condom distribution sites. There is a section devoted to parents of gay sons which includes videos made by parents whose children are gay and HIV positive telling other parents how important it is to accept and love their children in the face of HIV and AIDS. This website is mobile friendly so people can access the information from their cell phone devices.
To access the website, please visit the links listed below.
Website: www.wearemembersofthiscommunity.org
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/WeAreMembers
Check out the posters below!
Luke Keeler
Public Health Educator
HIV/STD Community Program
Wake County Human Services
10 Sunnybrook Rd.
Raleigh, NC 27610
P.O. Box 14049
Raleigh, NC 27620-4049
Office: 919-250-1141
Fax: 919-212-7400
E-mail: luke.keeler@wakegov.com
www.wakegov.com
E-mail correspondence to and from this address is subject to the North Carolina Public Records Act and may be disclosed to third parties unless made confidential under applicable law.
