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Abstract #246 - How to integrate the men who sex with men into an association of fight against the HIV / AIDS: case of Colibri Bafoussam – Cameroon
Authors: Presenting Author: Mr Kamggue Kopguep Jean Jules - COLIBRI
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Aim: Issues -Death of a founder member of the following COLIBRI of negligence during an operation of the anus, -Reading of the book «problem of the homosexuality in Africa case of Cameroon, -Training in the management of association, -Writing of the associative project,
Method / Issue: Project -Presentation of reports by the General assembly in 2006, -Two meetings of raising sensitization of the members to explain the intervention with the MSM -Revision of the statutes and the implication of the values such as judgment, the respect for the fundamental rights of the person and validation in 2007, -Creation of a group MSM within the association with holding of the meetings twice a month. (Twenty five meetings held in 2009) -After the meetings Africagay, Development of prevention initiatives on internet (we left 2 members in 2007 to 42 members in 31 Mars 2011 for the only city of Bafoussam)
Results / Comments: Lessons learned -The homosexuality is not an import of the west; it is present well and truly within the African societies, -The MSM has the same rights as everybody, -The MSM is not a problem, but a solution to dike the epidemic of the HIV, -The gay problem and the HIV / AIDS is an ardent preoccupation which deeply calls to all the actors engaged in the fight. Our differences have to be a factor of progress.
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