Website: http://www.amfar.org/msm/
Asia and Pacific
Since 2007 Positive Action has supported the work of amfAR's MSM Initiative, contributing to their small grants programme for organisations working with men who have sex with men in the Asia Pacific region and to their associated advocacy and policy work.
The Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) launched its global initiative to fight the spread of HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM) in the developing world in July 2007. In many parts of Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, stigma, criminalisation, and lack of access to health services have sparked alarming epidemics that threaten to devastate MSM communities, mirroring the HIV pandemics that ravaged gay communities in North America and Western Europe in the 1980s.
A participant in a health promotion and
empowerment workshop for Kuna Indian
transgender communities in Panama, funded
as part of this programme by Positive Action