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Region 2 Empowerment of MSMs |
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Membership to REMEMBR is open to all members
of the
gay community, family and
friends.
Please register below:
Baton Rouge AIDS Society, with the help of the REMEMBR Team, offers FREE HIV Testing, Counseling and Referral Services on a monthly basis to the community during club hours. BRASS is the only agency in this area with a mobile testing unit and have partnered with the local clubs for over eleven years to provide testing services. Currently, testing is financially supported by the community at 100% of funding. Project P.L.A.N.T. (People Living with AIDS and NEVER TESTED) is the core of our fundraising activities at the agency. If you see us at the club, please stop by and get your FREE HIV Test and/or sign up to become a REMEMBR Team Member.
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Target Population
Men
who frequent gay bars
Intervention
A cadre
of trusted, well-liked men who frequent gay bars are trained to endorse safer sexual behaviors in casual, one-on-one conversations
with peers at the bars and other settings. During these conversations, the “popular opinion leader” corrects misperceptions,
discusses the importance of HIV prevention, describes strategies he uses to reduce his own risk (e.g., keeping condoms nearby,
avoiding sex when intoxicated, resisting coercion for unsafe sex), and recommends that the peer adopt safer sex behaviors.
Popular opinion leaders wear buttons displaying the project logo, which also is on posters around the bars, as a conversation-starting
technique. Each leader agrees to have at least 14 such conversations and to recruit another popular opinion leader.
Research Results
The POL intervention produced the following results
among patrons of bars where the program was conducted:
- Unprotected anal intercourse decreased from between 15 to 29 percent
- Condom use increased
- Numbers of sex partners decreased
For Details on the Research Design
Kelly, J. A., Murphy, D. A., Sikkema, K. J., McAuliffe,
R. L., Roffman, R. A., Solomon, L. J., Winett, R. A., Kalichman, S. C. (1997). Randomised, controlled, community-level HIV-prevention
intervention for sexual-risk behaviour among homosexual men in US cities. Community HIV Prevention Research Collaborative.
Lancet, 350(9090), 1500-1505.