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AFAO/NAPWA Education Team (ANET) Discussion Papers
Last Updated 5 August 2010.
AFAO/NAPWA Education Discussion Papers
Vol. 8, 2008/2009
Rapid HIV Testing: A Liturature Review January 2009
This liturature review reviews examines research and evaluation studies conducted in developed world contexts to inform the AFAO Rapid HIV Testing Policy Reference Group.
AFAO Health Promotion Evaluation Audit and Analysis June 2009
An evaluation of the first phase of a two phase project run by AFAO and NAPWA that aims to provide training and capacity development initiatives for AFAO/NAPWA member organisations
Responses to syphilis outbreaks among gay and other men who have sex with men:Case studies from the United Kingdom and the United States May 2009
This paper presents summaries of responses to syphilis outbreaks among MSM in seven cities in the United Kingdom and the United States.
AFAO/NAPWA Education Discussion Papers
Vol. 8, 2007/2008
ANET’s Gay Men’s Relationships Survey: Qualitative Analysis (Dr. J Ellard) May 2008
This paper reports on the main findings of the qualitative component of an online survey of gay men’s relationships conducted by the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO).
ANET’s Gay Men’s Relationships Survey: Qualitative Analysis (Dr. I Zablotska) May 2008
This paper reports on the main findings of the qualitative component of an online survey of gay men’s relationships conducted by the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO).
A Social Scientist's reflection on HIV prevention May 2008
This paper is a transcript of Susan Kippax's address at the AFAO HIV Educator's conference dinner, held in Wollongong in May 2008. The paper compares current prevention strategies and examines what an effective prevention strategy is.
AFAO/NAPWA Education Discussion Papers
Vol. 8, 2006/2007
Delta 32 Briefing Paper June 2007
This briefing paper was developed in response to advertising in 2006 of a service, which at the time, offered testing for a genetic characteristic which may confer some level of genetic resistance to certain strains of HIV infection.
Learning About Sex - Analysing Pedagogy in Community-based HIV Health Promotion June 2007
This report examines some of the ways gay men learn about sex, and analyses these in term of the different ways knowledge is produced and distributed. The report concentrates specifically on the contrast between formal sexual health education and everyday contexts of sexual learning.
HIV Infections Among Gay Men/MSM — 2006 and Beyond February 2007
This discussion paper was prepared in 2006 in response to data showing continued rises in HIV notifications among Australian gay men. The purpose of the paper was to generate discussion and critical thinking among the AFAO and NAPWA membership about what factors may be driving the rises and what a proper response to these may entail.
Gay men's relationship agreements May 2006
This paper sets out to describe the main findings from published research on gay men's relationship agreements, as well as to comment on the approaches taken, and to identify some of the obvious gaps in the literature.
The Issue Of 'Responsibility' In HIV Education Materials Targeting Gay Men July 2006
HIV education materials often make assumptions about their audience. This discussion paper looks at HIV education materials since the early 1990s to assess assumptions are made about 'responsibility'. That is, what do they assume about the agency (or the power to act) of gay men to prevent HIV transmission? And has this changed over the course of the epidemic? If so, in what ways, and for what reasons?
HIV “Prevention” in the United States: Implications for the Australian Response October 2005
In 2005, current HIV prevention efforts in the United States are dramatically different to how we might have remembered community-based responses to HIV in the mid-eighties. This paper addresses how in the United States the principles of community empowerment and self determination are being increasingly eroded.
Rapid Testing For HIV September 2004
The scope of this paper is restricted to the introduction of rapid HIV testing at the point of medical care. Its purpose is to briefly document some of the significant reasons to seriously consider an expanded use of rapid HIV testing in medical settings and to identify some of the issues that would need to be addressed should broader rapid HIV testing be implemented.
Bill and Ben Go Shopping October 2004
Whether we like it or not Rapid HIV Testing will be available in Australia during the next five years. You can already order Rapid HIV Testing kits now over the Internet - although they are not approved by the TGA for use in Australia. The reason for this paper is to get us to start thinking about the educational implications. For example, if rapid HIV testing was available only at the point of care should we change our negotiated safety guidelines?
STIs Amongst Gay Men: Rethinking the Gay "Community" Role November 2004
How has the HIV sector responded to the challenge of the return of STIs in gay men? We need to consider how the debates over the national structures have been an impediment to us engaging with STIs in a strategic and comprehensive way.
Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART), Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA): A COMPLEX SET OF INTERACTIONS December 2004
This is an initial discussion document attempting to identify the way forward in addressing the sexual health needs of PLWHA and the broader implications of the return of STIs amongst PLWHA.
HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis June 2004
This paper provides some background information on the candidate drug most likely to be used (tenofovir).
Superinfection with HIV June 2004
This paper examines the evidence on superinfection and poses questions about the sort of advice we should be offering in relation to sex between people with HIV.
Electronic technologies, HIV education and health promotion targeting gay men and men who have sex with men. This paper addresses:
research into gay and other men who use the internet to find male sexual partners; current uses of the internet for HIV health promotion; and possible future uses of the internet for HIV education and health promotion.
3.1 - 3.3 Positive Education These three discussion documents on positive education are a scan of the current education issues for people with HIV in Australia as at 2002. The document as a whole and feedback about it forms a major part of positive education input into the development of an education strategic plan of AFAO for the next three years. The document is divided into three parts because of its size: Part 1 describes and defines people with HIV in Australia, Part 2 examines a number of 'psychosocial issues' and Part 3 looks at treatment education issues
3.1 Defining the Constituency
3.2 Treatment education issues
3.3 Psychosocial issues
3.4 HIV antibody testingThis paper reviews existing research on HIV testing among gay men, summarises existing guidelines on HIV testing; and outlines the reasons for, and meanings of, HIV testing among gay men.
2.1. Keeping it safe: maintaining safe sex practices in the light of treatment for HIV
2.2. Hold everything! An overview of structured interruptions to HIV therapy
2.3. Gay men and travel: HIV risk behaviours and HIV treatment practices
2.4. Risk reduction strategies for anal sex with casual partners
2.5. New HIV test to determine recent seroconversion
2.6. Professionally gay: Gay HIV educators
AFAO/NAPWA Education Discussion Papers: Vol. 1, 1999/2000, is available on request. Some of the information contained is out of date but may be of interest for research purposes. Topics covered:
- Structured interruptions to HIV therapy
- Male circumcision and HIV transmission
- HIV resistance Assays
- Technical writing and HIV information
- Research on the travel campaign for gay men.
Copies can be obtained by contacting the Education Team at AFAO.
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