Workshop Report Moving from Intentions to Action

Second International Expert Meeting on HIV Prevention for MSM, WSW and TG

Tags: Knowledge Management
Additional tags: Research sexual minorities

The Second International Expert Meeting on HIV Prevention for Men who have sex with Men (MSM), Women who have sex with Women (WSW), and Transgenders (TG) brought together 130 activist, community representatives and experts from the areas of policy, research, funding, and implementation of programmes. The format of the Expert Meeting was a mixture of expert presentations on a wide variety of issues concerning sexual minorities, such as decriminalization and destigmatisation; best practices and novel approaches in prevention, or knowledge gaps in social, behavioural and epidemiological research; workshops to discuss and produce recommendations on policy and research issues; and expert panel discussions.

The Expert Meeting made clear that there are major gaps in research and data availability around sexual minorities. The meeting participants called for an increased effort to close those gaps, in particular for WSW and TG issues, in order to improve programming for sexual minorities. Josine Stremmelaar, Coordinator of the Knowledge Programme, hosted the workshop on Research Implementation. Key issues that were adressed included the research process, partnerships in research, the role of funding and dissemination of results. See the report and Annexes (workshop IX: Research implementation) for further details.