Joint Symposium: Meanings of Safe Sex among Gay Men
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| Tuesday, November 7, 2017 |
| 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
| Nicholls Theatrette |
Details
This Joint symposium will discuss emerging evidence of the meanings and practices associated with ‘safe sex’ among Australian gay men in the context of a rapidly changing biomedical prevention landscape. The session aims to provide the following learning objectives:
• Increased understanding of emerging trends and changes in sexual practices and meanings of those practices for safe sex in gay men
• Expanded awareness of how changing practices and meanings of safe sex among Australian gay men relates to HIV prevention education and community responses
• Improved sensitivity to the complexity of diverse community perspectives on the meanings of safe sex among gay men
Speaker
Dr Martin Holt
Associate Professor
Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney
Diversification of safe sex practices among Australian gay and bisexual men
11:30 AM - 11:45 AMBiography
Associate Professor Martin Holt has worked at the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW Sydney since 2003. He conducts HIV prevention research with gay and bisexual men.
Dr Bridget Haire
Research Fellow
Kirby Institute
Dr Ben Bavinton
Associate Lecturer
The Kirby Institute
Gay men’s understandings of undetectable viral load as safe sex: efficacy, effectiveness and context
12:00 PM - 12:15 PMBiography
Benjamin has worked in the field of HIV prevention and research for over ten years in Australia and internationally. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Kirby Institute and was Project Leader of the Opposites Attract Study, an international cohort study of HIV treatment-as-prevention in male serodiscordant couples.
A/Prof Adam Bourne
Associate Professor
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society
What meanings are gay men ascribing to safe sex in other countries?
12:15 PM - 12:30 PMBiography
Adam Bourne is newly appointed Associate Professor of Public Health at the Australian Research Centre of Sex, Health & Society at La Trobe University. He specialises in drug use, harm reduction and sexual risk behaviour among LGBT populations.
Johnathan Davis
Panellist - Community Perspectives Panel Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:00 PMBiography
Dave Edwards
Panellist - Community Perspectiives Panel Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:00 PMBiography
Adj A/Prof Darryl O’Donnell
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Federation Of Aids Organisations
Facilitator - Community Perspectives Panel Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:00 PMBiography
Darryl O’Donnell has over 25 years’ experience in HIV across community, research and government settings. From 1999 to 2013, he worked for the NSW Government where he held several roles, including as the Director responsible for state-wide HIV, STI and viral hepatitis policy and programs.
Mr Danny Ryding
ACT Representative To Napwha
AIDS Action Council
Panellist - Community Perspectives Panel Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:00 PMBiography
HIV positive. Volunteers at the AIDS Action Council of the ACT. An ACT Representative for the National Association of People with HIV Australia (NAPWHA). I co-facilitate the Genesis Workshop for the ACT and surrounding Regions for HIV positive men, and co-facilitating a Mature Aged Gay Men's Network (MAGNET) Social Group
Paco Santana
Panellist - Community Perspectives Panel Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:00 PMBiography
Joel Wilson
Panellist - Community Perspectives Panel Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:00 PMBiography
Joel Wilson is a 23 year old transman studying at the ANU. Originally in defence however, he became the first person to transition at the Australian Defence Force Academy in 2013. Now out of defence, he spends his time running a Canberra transmasculine social group and getting involved in trans visibility campaigning
Panel
Community perspectives panel discussion
12:30 PM - 1:00 PMBiography
