Noticias

Created in the International AIDS Congress 2006, the Global Forum on MSM and HIV (MSMGF) is the only global network of demands related to HIV and AIDS specifically dedicated to the need of gay males and other men who have sex with men (MSM). The MSMGF is ruled by a Directive Committee of 20 members designated in a collective manner, that are well known defensors internationally and HIV/AIDS professionals that represent each principal region of the world. The composing of the Directive Committee of the MSMGF reflects their commitment to support the coverage with a global perspective on the related topics to MSM and HIV, with delegates that actively participate in Australia, Cameroon, Canada, China, Dominican Republic, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Marruecos, Nicaragua, Romania, South Africa, Uganda, the United Kingdom, the United States, Zimbabwe and now Paraguay.
The mission of The Global Forum on MSM and HIV (MSMGF) is to advocate for equitable access to effective HIV prevention, care, treatment, and support services tailored to the needs of gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) including gay men and MSM living with HIV, while promoting their health and human rights worldwide.
The MSMGF works to ensure an effective response to rapidly escalating HIV epidemics among MSM, including the consequent support, treatment and care needs of HIV positive MSM, through advocacy, information exchange, knowledge production, networking, and capacity building activities, sustained over time at the global level. Consistent with the established values of GIPA, the MSMGF strives to involve MSM living with HIV at all levels of its strategy, policy development and implementation. The work of the MSMGF is organised around five (5) specific goals:
1) Increased investment (funding) in effective HIV prevention, care, treatment and support programmes for MSM;
2) Expanded coverage of (roll out of and access to) quality HIV-related services for MSM;
3) Increased knowledge on MSM and HIV through the promotion of research and its broad-based dissemination;
4) Decreased stigma, discrimination, and violence against MSM
5) Strengthened regional, sub-regional, and national networks of MSM around the world linked to each other and to an organisationally robust MSMGF; this includes networks of MSM living with HIV, and a strengthened response to the needs of MSM among networks of people living with HIV.
Locally, the incorporation of Simon Cazal in this instance will reinforce the actions of SOMOSGAY in the areas of HIV and health.
One of the first actions that SOMOSGAY announces is the support of the creation and strengthening of a national network of gay males and other MSM that will closely follow the tasks of advocacy in the different communities in the country, just like the reinforcement of prevention activities of HIV and the promotion of voluntary counseling and testing.