Researchers at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health are retiring the Man-to-Man Sexual Health Seminars, an in-person sexual health education and support program that ran for nearly
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20 years. Retiring the program will allow for more online HIV prevention interventions.
The former program, led by principal investigator B.R. Simon Rosser, Ph.D., professor and director of the HIV/STI Intervention and Prevention Studies (HIPS) program, and co-investigators Michael Wilkerson, Ph.D. and Walter Bockting, Ph.D. (formerly of the U of M), provided comprehensive HIV prevention and sexual health education for men who seek men for sex (MSM) in Minnesota.
?At a time when HIV wasn?t fully understood, Man-to-Man, and its successor Among Men, worked to educate men in Minnesota who were at risk of contracting HIV or were themselves HIV positive,? says Rosser. ?But to remain on the forefront of this area of education, we need to continue our shift to online programing in response to the changing way men seek men.?
Rosser says when the program started in the mid 1980s, the University of Minnesota School of Public Health led the way by providing education directly to the communities most infected and affected by HIV. Now, men are increasingly turning to the Internet to find partners, which is where prevention education needs to be.
?We live in an online world,? says Rosser, whose research focuses on ?next generation? HIV prevention interventions. ?And it isn?t just the homosexual or MSM community, everyone is online. It?s also where people now go to gather health-related information. Online is where we now need to be, and that?s the direction we?re taking our research.?
As Rosser and colleagues continue to focus on online research, they are pleased to retire Man-to-Man and Among Men and its education materials to the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies at the University of Minnesota Libraries.?
?The Tretter Collection is one of the largest LGBT archives in the world, and it is an honor to see our work among other historical pieces from this community,? says Rosser.
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