Fridae

Fridae’s Men's sexual health columnist Jan Wijngaarden discusses PrEP, PEP and iPrEP, and the extent to which anti-retroviral drugs for HIV can indeed help prevent HIV (but not STI) infection.

Nineteen of 48 countries in the Asia Pacific region criminalise male-to-male sex which contributes to over 90 percent of gay and bisexual men in the region being denied access to HIV prevention and care services. Fridae’s Laurindo Garcia reports.

AIDS Concern is the adopted charity of this year's Hong Kong International Art Fair to be held May 27-30. 100% of proceeds from the sales of the 500 allocated tickets, which are worth HK$75,000, will benefit the charity. Fridae.com's Hong Kong Correspondent, Nigel Collett has more details.

Activist and founder of ActionEqualsLife.com Nicholas Snow's "The Power To Be Strong" HIV awareness music video premieres online on Fridae and at the Kashish – Mumbai International Queer Film Festival on Sunday.

Most of the medications used in first and second line therapy of HIV in Singapore are not subsidised by the government and can cost up to US$1,000 per month; while many new life-saving, life-changing treatments are not available in Singapore. HIV/AIDS needs to be treated like any other disease with regards to treatment, says Dr Stuart Koe, CEO of Fridae and long-time AIDS activist.

Thousands of condoms will be given away free of charge as part of a new campaign to promote condom use rolled out by Fridae, the largest gay and lesbian website in Asia.

Chiangmai's Mplus, a community-based men's sexual health organisation, last year launched four animated videos for the four communities they are trying to reach: young MSM, transgenders, Thai and migrant male sex workers and 'hidden MSM'.

The world’s second-largest sex survey of men who have sex with men, focusing mainly on men in East and Southeast Asia, has found that 46% of those who had anal intercourse reported inconsistent condom use with casual partners, and higher levels of unprotected sex with regular partners.

If you are a man who has sex with other men, or a transgendered person, we invite you to participate in our community-driven survey. Participation is open to all those living in Asia.

Among other things, the survey found that 31% of respondents did not using condoms consistently with a regular male partner, and 21% did not use condoms consistently with their casual male partners.