Men who have sex with men

The term men who have sex with men is used to describe men who identify as gay or bisexual and also men who may identify as straight or heterosexual who have sex with other men.

Men who have sex with men are disproportionately affected by HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Below you will find some useful reports and documents relating to HIV prevention and sexual health improvement work targeting men who have sex with men. These reports have both a local, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and also a UK and Scottish focus.

National and UK:

 1. Good Practice Guidance on HIV Prevention in Men having Sex with Men (MSM)

 Recently published by the Health Protection Network, Good Practice Guidance on HIV Prevention in  MSM sets out the best available evidence to date. It is intended to be a practical tool for local commissioners, planners and delivery agencies to design and evaluate intervention responses to the Sexual Health & Blood Bourne Virus Framework 2011-15. Implementing this guidance should:

  • strengthen the commissioning and delivery process
  • ensure that interventions are evidence informed
  • ensure an authentic MSM-informed, local approach
  • strengthen skills, expertise already in place within the Third Sector locally and nationally
  • focus more attention on evaluation of intervention process and outcomes.

 2. Prevention and Treatment of HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Men Who Have Sex With Men and Transgender People  Report (2011)

 

3.  NICE Guidelines: Increasing HIV testing amongst men who have sex with men (2011)

 

Local:

  • Syphilis Fast Track Report of a Community Based Intervention  (2006)
  • Easy test community syphilis testing - Interim Evaluation Report (2007)
  • Sexual Health and Service Use of Young Gay and Bisexual Men Report (2007)
  • Summary of New Gay Men's Research & Monitoring Information from 2004-2007 (2008)
  • NHS GGC Gay Men's Safer Sex Guidelines (2008)
  • Syphilis Fast Track Report of a Community Based Intervention Report (2006)
  • NHS GGC'S Gay Men's Sexual Health Action Plan 2011-2012 (2011)
  • Inverclyde Men: Have your say': Findings of a sexual health and wellbeing survey for men who have sex with men living or working in Inverclyde April 2010

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde commission Gay Men's Health to provide community based HIV prevention interventions targeted at men who have sex with men. You can find out more information about the work of Gay Men's Health.