Clever HIV education

Evidence basis via empiric results is the way to change the behaviour of men that have sex with men, to use methodical games and structures of conversations to get a HIV prevention that is based on knowledge. The purpose: To seriously get homosexual men to realize the risks with having unprotected sex. RFSL is using three intellectual people to inform.

 Ronny Tikkonen, connected to Malmö College of Higher Learning and Gothenburg University is the first one to talk about HIV prevention with men that have sex with me. The presentation is straight forward, why do men have unprotected anal sex with eachother? Ronny wanders around in the premise, the seminar is organised in the same way as at university. A pedagogical power point presentation is alternated with an exposition.

Factors

There are many factors involved, Ronny says. Is alcohol a part of the picture? Is there a poor access to lubrication and condoms? Intimacy and symbolic meanings, in the heat of the battle, has a huge significance, Ronny says.
- Alot of it is due to the "bareback"- pornography, what turns you on is very much a social construction, Ronny says.
On the overhead there is a large list of things that works when it comes to HIV prevetion. Ronny focuses on "Group efforts"
- This might sound boring, that you just sit in a ring and talk about your sexlife., but it is much more than that. It is about making it possible to discuss sexuality and risks, Ronny ensures.  

Rubber Parties

A Swedish example that does that is the so called Rubberware parties at the 90s. Then, informers from RFSL came home to a man that had a party and had invited his firends over. They showed movies with erotic parts and demonstrated how to put on a condom on a dildo.
- When a person tests themselves for HIV is also another good way to give out information, because people are susceptible.
- You have to inform the person so that they think about the risks even when they are in the "heat of the moment". To do this is callaed warm cognition, you effectively connect cognition with behaviour.