Community events for Black gay men

Black gay men in the United Kingdom have a higher prevalence of HIV than non-Black gay men. GMFA’s strategy has two routes to reach Black gay men. First we ensure that all of our work is appropriate and acceptable to Black gay men. Second we develop projects specifically aimed at reaching Black gay men. Independent evaluation of our work, has found that Black gay men are as likely as non-Black men to encounter and read our generic campaigns.

In 2005-06 our additional interventions for Black gay men consisted of three community events at which specific health promotion was delivered; the placing of articles about being gay in the Black community press; and conducting ten outreach sessions to enable more Black gay men to take part in the annual gay men’s sex survey conducted by Sigma Research.