VAC Community Series: SEX NOW! A Forum About How We Have Sex

With the recent success of the VAC Community Forums HIV Prevention: Get PrEPped
on PrEP and Gay Men’s Health & PrEP: the new voices of community activism, VAC is set to continue the
Community Forum series with Sex Now! A Forum About How We Have Sex on Tuesday 30 September 2014
at The GH Hotel in St Kilda.
Focusing on sexual health, the event will include a discussion of risk reduction strategies used by gay
men to reduce the transmission of HIV an other STIs as well as the terminology utilised during sexual
encounters. This forum will feature a panel of three guests: Brent Allan (Executive Director, Living Positive
Victoria), Garrett Prestage (The Kirby Institute, ARCSHS) and Dr Vincent Cornelisse (The Centre Clinic,
Prahran Market Clinic). Presentations will be immediately followed by a Q&A session with attending
community members.
Colin Batrouney, VAC’s Director - Health Promotion, Policy and Communications, further explained the
need for this forum, saying, “We are at a point in the epidemic where there have never been so many
options to prevent HIV and to reduce the risk of transmission and acquisition. It is important that we have
the opportunity, as a community, to come together to examine these strategies and discuss what they
might mean for us in the future.”
The Community Forum series is free to attend, but RSVP is recommended via email: enquiries@vac.org.au
For more information, go to: www.vac.org.au/forums