1996 - 1999 Survey
The MRC Gay Men’s Sexual Health Survey was originally set up to evaluate the Gay Men’s Task Force (GMTF), a bar-based, peer-led, community-level intervention designed to promote sexual health and reduce sexual risk behaviours among gay men in Glasgow. The GMTF intervention involved three elements: peer-led sexual health promotion on the commercial gay scene; gay-specific genitourinary medicine (GUM) services in both hospital and gay community settings; and a free-phone ‘hotline’ providing sexual health information and details of local sexual health services. During the intervention peer educators interacted with 1484 men and new clients increased at GUM. Overall, GMTF did not produce the community-wide changes in sexual health behaviours that it was designed to. The only significant intervention effects were amongst men who had direct contact with the intervention, with higher uptake of hepatitis B vaccination and HIV testing.
Publications
Hart GJ, Williamson LM, Flowers P. Good in parts: the Gay Men’s Task Force in Glasgow – a response to Kelly. AIDS Care 2004;16:159-165
Elford J, Hart G, Sherr L, Williamson LM, Bolding G. Peer led HIV prevention among gay men in Britain: expanding the evidence base [editorial]. Sexually Transmitted Infections 2002;78ID - 2502:158-159
Flowers P, Hart G, Williamson L, Frankis J, Der G. Does bar-based, peer-led sexual health promotion have a community-level effect amongst gay men in Scotland?. International Journal of STD & AIDS 2002;13:102-108
Hart G, Williamson L, Flowers P, Frankis J, Der G. Gay men's HIV testing behaviour in Scotland. AIDS Care 2002; 14:665-674.
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Williamson LM, Hart GJ, Flowers P, Frankis J, Der G. The Gay Men's Task Force: the impact of peer education on the sexual health behaviour of homosexual men in Glasgow. Sexually Transmitted Infections 2001;77:427-432
