Since we first began providing safe-sex education in the early 1980's, the VAC/GMHC has continued to promote the use of condoms and water-based lube lubricant, as the best way for men who have sex with men, to prevent HIV infection.

However, we know that many people who share the same HIV status (where both partners are HIV+ or HIV-) choose not to use condoms under certain conditions.

To read more about your options for safe-sex, and a number of associated topics, please click on the pages in the green box at the top, right hand side of this page.

For information about minimising the risk of not using condoms, please click on the link below.

Risk Reduction

To find out how HIV is - and isn’t - transmitted during anal or vaginal intercourse, oral sex, wanking, rimming, and other types of sex, please click on the link below.

Sex & HIV/AIDS

For information about why, where, and when to have an HIV test, please click on the links below.

Testing

For information about an extensive range of other sexually transmitted infections, and how to treat them, please click on the link below.

STI's

If you think you have been exposed to HIV within the last 72 hours, you may need to access PEP.

PEP (post exposure prophylaxis) is a 28-day course of anti-HIV drugs which, if accessed within 72 hours of exposure to HIV, prevents the virus from permanently establishing itself in the body, in the majority of cases. These are the same drugs taken by many people living with HIV, to minimise the virus’ ability to replicate itself in the body.

For more information about PEP, please click on the link below, or please call the PEP hot-line, on 1800 889 887.

Get PEP