The AIDS Trust of Australia has made available to the Victorian AIDS Council/Gay Men’s Health Centre two grants of $5,000 each, from the Elton John Foundation, to fund the development of two HIV/STI prevention projects.

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The VAC/GMHC offers a variety of free resources, workshops, counselling services, and social and support groups, to help people of all ages and cultural backgrounds to improve their life-skills and emotional well-being.

Our belief is that building the capacity of individuals to take control of their own lives, and responsibility for their own actions, is the best job that we could do.

In the following pages, you'll find information on a variety of health-related subjects. This includes information about how to protect yourself from getting HIV, and how to look after yourself if you are HIV+.

However, protecting yourself and others from HIV is not just a question of always using condoms and lube and, if you’re HIV positive, of remembering to take your medications. Issues like depression, drug and alcohol use, self-esteem, homophobia, isolation, and access to information, can greatly affect your ability to protect yourself and others from HIV.

The VAC also auspices several other web-sites. Please click on the links below for more information.

XTRIBE

XTRIBE is an interactive site for men who have sex with men, or those who wish to gain more knowledge about safe sexual practices with another man. You can also particiate in various on-line communities hosted by XTRIBE.

XTRIBE

Cruising

This site contains information about SOPV's (sex on premises venues), beats, on-line cruising, HIV/AIDS, STI's, and support services.

Cruising

Staying Negative

This site contains information about safe-sex, sexual health, cruising, relationships, and personal issues. It also contains personal life-stories written by gay men who are HIV negative.

Staying Negative

Get 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’s ability to replicate itself in the body. Please click on the link below for the 'Get PEP' web-site, or please call the PEP hot-line on 1800 889 887.

Get PEP

The Drama Down Under

Please also check out the latest VAC web-site, The Drama Down Under. This site provides information about some of the most common sexually transmitted infections (STI's) experienced by gay men, HIV+ or HIV-.

The Drama Down Under