QX Gay London – N 1033 – Dec 24, 2014.pdf

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GAY LONDON
Year of the Rear…
2014 and
its biggest celebrity bum notes
The annual QX Horrorscopes!
Meth
looks at the year ahead
All dressed up and nobody to blow?
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Are you pleased the national
HIV prevention programme
has been saved?
What was HIV prevention
funding being spent on?
PREVENTION
vs AUSTERITY
By Patrick Cash
Despite earlier suggesting that they planned to cut the national
HIV prevention programme, it now seems the Government have had
a change of heart and the same level of funding will continue next
year. QX speaks to
Yusef Azad,
Director of Policy and Campaigns at
the
National AIDS Trust,
to try and find out more about the issue...
a department is not delivering
effective results, should the
money not be re-channeled
into other avenues?
Was HIV prevention funding
working as HIV rates have
progressively been going up? If
It has recently been estimated that one HIV transmission
results in lifetime treatment costs of £360,777.
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Above all
reducing HIV
rates has to
become again
the business of
all us in the gay
community, not
just the health
promotion
charities.
decision must look very hard and critically at the various bids to
deliver the programme, ensuring they are innovative, evidence-
based, and value for money – with the best possible provider(s)
chosen. Any new programme should be managed and evaluated
independently from those providing the services.
Let’s cut through all the bureaucracy and red tape:
on a street level, how do we prevent HIV spreading
amongst gay men? How can money be spent most
effectively to achieve this end?
We need to link up HIV prevention with support for the mental
health, drugs and alcohol needs of gay men – condom use is less
likely if you are depressed or off your face; we need to do even
more to increase HIV testing rates in the gay community; PrEP
must be made available to those most at risk of HIV; we need to
be more aware of how the number of our sex partners affects
our risk of HIV; sex and relationships education should be
compulsory in every school, inclusive of LGBT relationships, and
properly informative about safer sex and HIV. And we need to
keep on promoting condoms, which protect not just against HIV
but also other STIs, some of which are very serious.
We also need to be aware of how many gay men getting
diagnosed with HIV in the UK are not from the UK (40% in
2013). HIV prevention in the UK, and in London especially, has
to think ‘internationally’ – the funds need to be there to reach
out with health promoters from the relevant communities, with
materials in the right languages.
Above all reducing HIV rates has to become again the business
of all us in the gay community, not just the health promotion
charities that do such good work. Gay media, gay businesses,
clubs and bars, the companies which run gay dating apps, all have
to take this seriously and work out what they can and should do.
I’ve got the sense that there is also an increasing appetite for
mobilisation at a community level – initiatives such as Reshape
and ActUp are very exciting! For example, it is as a community
that we have to start challenging the HIV stigma amongst gay
men which hampers our prevention efforts.
The threatened cut to HIV prevention was a wake-up call for
us to re-state how important HIV prevention is, to agree on a
the funds needed to promote our sexual health, and for each of
us to play our part in ensuring that ourselves, our lovers, our
friends and our community are safer and healthier.
Find out more about current HIV prevention work at:
www.hivpreventionengland.org.uk
Sign the community petition for access to PrEP now at:
www.prepaccess.org.uk
National AIDS Trust: www.nat.org.uk
Horrorscopes
Meth
knows what’s coming
your way in 2015...
Aries
2014 has been a good year
for you, but in 2015 your
naturally argumentative
nature will return meaning that Pete from
HR will stop looking at you in a way that
makes your knees go weak. But don’t worry,
if you can stop being a dick then maybe your
friends will get back in touch.
Scorpio
You thought 2014 was
okay, just wait ‘till you see
how average 2015 will be.
With Neptune in retrograde there is no
end to your mediocrity, or the soul crushing
Keep on keeping on trooper.
Taurus
February will not be kind
to you. But I sense you’ll be
repaid in karmic retribution
around the 16th May. I can’t quite work out
why this will happen…the gin’s kicking in.
Sagittarius
2015 will be a period of
civil war for Sagittarius.
With rebel spaceships,
striking from a hidden base, winning their
Empire. Avoid kale and the colour orange,
it washes you out.
Gemini
Two is company, three’s a
crowd and four…well you’ve
got yourself a party there.
Keep your friends close and plentiful as we
prepare for the year of the Goat but be wary
Cancer
By July 11th Saturn will have
entered your third house
improving communication
and mood, but most importantly improving
complete position number 49 in the Kama
Sutra without putting your back out.
Capricorn
With the moon returning to
Mercury, 2015 will see the
return of that £20 note you
thought you lost on the N98 back from a
night out in Soho with Dave and Vicki. Hint:
it’s in your coat pocket. Idiot.
“Avoid
white
vans at
all costs.
Although
generally
good
advice
any time.
Nothing
good
happens
in a
white
van.”
Aquarius
Don’t do drugs. Stay away
from sugar and caffeine.
Gluten is the devil and should
be destroyed. Avoid heights and birds larger
than a canary. Beware countries that end in
the letter S and do not travel anywhere on
an Irish Bank Holiday. Boy bands spell bad
fortune and between 7pm and 11:30pm on a
Saturday is not your friend.
Leo
Avoid Harry. He’s bad news
even if he is super dreamy
and passes you the sweetest
love notes during 3rd period Chemistry
class. True love is waiting down the hall in
English Literature. Or the Janitor’s closet.
Take your pick.
Virgo
Jupiter’s transit could spell
ventures you may undertake
this year. Avoid white vans at all costs.
Although that’s generally good advice any
time. Nothing good happens in a white van.
Pisces
The undeniable tension
between Venus, Mars and
stranded in Zone 3 with no knickers on at
and Margaret Thatcher themed erotica will
go a long way in curbing your hormones but
it’s probably easier to just go with it and get
tested frequently. Stay safe kids.
Libra
Girl, you turned it up this
year! And thanks to the
perfect alignment of the Big
Dipper in your fourth quadrant 2015 will see
and you’ll take it all in… your stride.
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