The Requirements and Strategies of Venue Owners and Operator

Date:2009-01-14 10:44   Source:ghei.org   Writer:bgheiadmin

It is increasingly popular to conduct outreach and VCT promotion in these MSM venues, however, this work is largely completed with a disregard for the MSM venues themselves, and the lessons and experience of the venue owners and operators through their participation in HIV/AIDS prevention work.

 

This work also rarely takes into account the venue owners requirements and strategies, nor does it invite them to participate in policy advocacy or research and analysis.  These activities and engagement with MSM venues also lack a social science approach, and at present, social science based research material is very rare, and in fact, almost non-existent. These facts result in a lack of basic, representative analysis research materials for HIV/AIDS prevention work of this kind.

 

This report’s theme is built around using the requirements of the MSM Community’s venue owners and operators, in terms of HIV/AIDS prevention work, to construct and advocate for policies to meet these needs.  The report consists of two sections to introduce and analyse this theme, and provides specific suggestions to address this situation:

 

Section One: Using a sociological research methodology, we introduce the history and background of the formation of MSM Group venues, including: policy and cultural background, the situation of various venues operations and activities, the venue owners themselves, the customers, employees, and others such as performers, the transgender group, and MSM sex workers ( Money Boys-or MB ). At the same time, we introduce and analyse the relationships between these groups and the influence of venues on self-identification, networks, and sexual relations. 

 

Section Two: Guided by advanced social science perspectives on HIV/AIDS prevention work, we explicitly introduce and analyse the following four aspects: the necessity of the participation of gay venue owners in HIV/AIDS prevention work; a policy to appeal to and incorporate venue owners into participation in HIV/AIDS prevention work; the summary and promotion of contemporary applied experiences; and suggestions for strategy and policy improvements.

 

In this article, we provide a detailed introduction to real experiences from the practical world, which have inspired us to think in-depth about this issue.

According to my careful investigation, domestically, there exists a serious lack of research into MSM venue owner’s participation in HIV/AIDS prevention work. Based on practical and comprehensive social investigation, and guided by advanced HIV/AIDS prevention theories, we have formulated a preliminary introduction and analysis of the need for, and coordination of, MSM venues participation in HIV/AIDS prevention work.

 

We believe this report can assist in promoting  “multisectoral participation” in HIV/AIDS prevention work – and that it will offer a timely and practical value.