Safety in Numbers: Safer Sex and Gay Men

Gay men remain the group primarily affected by the AIDS epidemic in most industrialized countries. Although governments and AIDS organizations increasingly stress the dangers of a heterosexual HIV epidemic, it is gay men who are still bearing the brunt of the crisis.
In the 1980s gay men pioneered safer sex campaigns, long before governments responded. Rates of HIV transmission were drastically reduced through the most successful health-related behaviour changes in history. Today, however, the challenge for health educators is to understand the early successes and to translate them into new and equally effective strategies.
This unprecedented book provides a comprehensive overview of safer sex education for gay men. It offers a critical analysis of the professionalization and de-gaying of AIDS education in recent years and demonstrates conclusively how those at greatest risk from HIV have become the most neglected. By looking back over the successes of the past, it provides an accessible, essential guide to meeting current and future needs.