About us
This website is designed to assist GPs and other health care workers to meet the sexual health needs of gay men in Sydney by providing up-to-date information and links to available resources.
The terms of reference under which the STIs in Gay Men Action group partnership operates is described here:
Role
To provide leadership and strategic direction for reducing and preventing sexually transmissible infections (STIs) among gay men living in inner-city Sydney.
Functions
In relation to STIs in gay men:
- Monitor patterns and trends in infection and disease.
- Coordinate responses to changes in epidemiology.
- Plan, implement, coordinate and evaluate prevention and health promotion strategies.
- Provide advice to relevant committees and personnel on health promotion and other prevention strategies.
- Advise on role of health promotion and prevention activities in clinical practice (including testing, treatment and immunisation).
- Foster and conduct Public Health research.
- Make recommendations regarding allocation of resources (in reducing and preventing STIs among gay men).
