The South African Marang Men's Project
Subtitle: HIV bio-behavioural surveys conducted among men who have sex with men in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, using respondent- driven sampling
By: [contributors, Leickness Simbayi [and twenty-one others]
Contributors: Marang Men's Project (South Africa); Human Sciences Research Council
Publisher: HSRC Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cape Town, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 73
ISBN-13: 9780796924735; 9780796924742
Subjects: Sexual behavior; AIDS (Disease); Diseases; Conduct of life; Men; Marang Men's Project (South Africa); HIV-positive men
Description: In order to manage the South African HIV epidemic, government and civil society must not only respond to HIV within the general population but must also develop focused programmes that address the needs of key populations such as men who have sex with men (MSM). In fact, the National Strategic Plan on HIV, STIs and TB 2012-2016 (SANAC 2011) calls for the inclusion, in the national response to the HIV epidemic in South Africa, of all key populations at higher risk of HIV exposure. Without considering key populations such as MSM, any response to HIV in South Africa will prove inadequate and fruitless. To date, there has been a lack of up-to-date surveillance data, collected from several sites using the same sampling approach, on the prevalence of HIV and associated risk behaviours among MSM in South Africa; and hence this study was undertaken to fill this information gap. The study, called the Marang Men's Project, was implemented among MSM in the three largest cities of South Africa: Cape Town in the Western Cape, Durban in KwaZulu-Natal and Johannesburg in Gauteng.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-70) and index.