Privileging The Personal Mobilising marginalised identities and voices in the context of HIV health...

Privileging The PersonalMobilising marginalised identities and voices in the context of HIV health promotion with ‘hard to reach’ migrant and second generation Asian gay men in Metropolitan Sydney, Australia; a

resource development and community building initiative

Min Fuh TehCommunity Health Promotion Officer (Asian Gay Men’s

Project), ACON

“HIV is not a priority, work, study, life, settling in, finding love, these are!”

Nationally, Asian men make up the highest group in MSM/gay HIV notification after men of Anglo background, with an upward going trend sitting at 13.9% for 2009

Multicultural HIV and Hepatitis Service (MHAHS) 2010. Trends in NSW HIV notifications 1999-2010. (unpublished).

Country of Birth

Thailand

China, Hong Kong, Taiwan

Vietnam

Indonesia

Philippines

Malaysia

Singapore

(CDB, NSW Ministry of Health, 2011)

Myths & Assumptions

• Hard to reach• Apathy - Asian culture’s conservative…we

can’t talk about sex…why bother?• What is “Asian” anyway?

“Double Trouble”• ‘Minority within a minority’• Stuck between ethnic and sexual

worlds• Homophobia• Racism

Barriers preventing access to and uptake of HIV and health services

A need for culturally appropriate interventions addressing MSM of multicultural backgrounds

Reeders, D. W. (2010) Double Trouble? The Health Needs of Culturally Diverse MSM. Melbourne: Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health.

“Our work against the AIDS pandemic can only be won on the cultural level”

*Dr. George Ayala, Executive Officer of MSMGF, and Vallerie Wagner, of AIDS Project Los Angeles. “War Diaries,” Tisa Bryant & Ernest Hardy (ed.), AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) and the Global Forum on MSM and HIV (MSMGF), 2010.

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