Wolf Graf (People Living with HIV/AIDS Victoria) ran this workshop on running programs with and for sexually adventurous men at the AFAO/NAPWA Gay Men's HIV Health Promotion Conference in May 2012.

1. AFAO National Gay Men’s HIV Health Promotion Conference 2012
Sexually Adventurous Men (SAM) Workshop
Working with Sexually Adventurous Men (SAM):
“Preaching to the Perverted or Engaging a Community from within?”
Wolf Graf SAM Program PLWHA Victoria Inc.

2. Program description
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3. Program description
• You did read the abstract?
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4. Intro
• Introductions
• Expectations of the workshop
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5. Stakeholders
• Key community members
• Gatekeepers
• Mentors
• Venues / Events / Promoters
• Vendors
• Medical Providers
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6. Focus on Esoteric practices:
• What are they for you?
• What are they for your community?
• How do they relate to medical
practitioners?
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7. Service provisions
• The individual SAM programs
• HIV Prevention
• PLHIV Services
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8. What has changed over the years?
• Perception
• of the community from the outside in
• among providers
• of community members within the
community
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9. What has changed over the years?
• Approach
• Victimisation vs. non-judgemental
• Patriarchal vs. engagement
• Indoctrination vs. active listening
• Presentation vs. community ownership
• DVD vs. community mentoring
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10. Adapting the program
• Paying attention to the different types
of grassroots responses
• Encourage responses
• Help them along when possible
• Delivering rapid change
• Growing promise
• Trust
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11. Evaluation so far
• Quantitative and qualitative feedback
from Australian Research Centre in Sex,
Health and Society (ARCHS)
• Constant feedback with community
stakeholders
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12. Lessons learnt
• Listen, listen and listen again before
speaking
• Retain some form of private life
• Distribute Project Implementation Plan
to all and ask for comments
• Emphasize on written (documentable)
feedback from the community
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13. Recommendations
• Inclusion of all involved
• Minimise community barriers
• Our leadership equates to maximising
achievements of the community
• Ownership of the program by the
community to be fostered
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14. Summary
• Policy, research, & social marketing
principles
• Passionate and skilled stakeholders
• Ongoing personal & professional
development
• Relationships built on mutual respect
and trust
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15. Contact
Wolf Graf
www.plwhavictoria.org.au
wgraf@plwhavictoria.org.au
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