| November 2006 -Twenty-five years into the epidemic, men who have sex with men (MSM) continue to be at high risk for HIV infection. On November 27, amfAR and the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health commemorated World AIDS Day with a symposium examining the epidemic among MSM worldwide and the challenges of HIV prevention for this population.
Kevin Frost, vice president of global initiatives at amfAR, moderated the panel, which was comprised of Dr. Chris Beyrer, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore; Dr. Kenneth Mayer of Brown University and Memorial Hospital, Providence, RI, and an amfAR program board member; Dr. Gary Dowsett of La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia; Shivananda Khan of Naz Foundation International, Lucknow, India; and Gregorio Millett, of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta. The international panel of experts detailed the epidemiology of HIV among MSM, reviewed promising biological and social prevention methods, including male circumcision and pre-exposure prophylaxis, discussed prevention challenges among African-American MSM, and assessed the complications of addressing MSM health care in the developing world.
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