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Sex Transm Infect 2004;80:423-424
© 2004 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd

EDITORIAL

Improving men’s sexual health: a challenge for today

D A Lewis

Correspondence to:
Dr D A Lewis
Head of STI Reference Centre, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Private Bag X4, Sandringham 2131, South Africa; david.lewis@nhls.ac.za

Assistant editor Dr David Lewis introduces this special themed issue of the journal

Keywords: HIV; male sex workers; men

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

This special issue of Sexually Transmitted Infections, which addresses men’s sexual health, contains contributions from every continent of the world and has proved very popular. Among the issue’s themes are sexual behaviour of men having sex with other men (MSM), sexual health services for young men, reasons underlying non-use of condoms, and male commercial sex work. All of these are important facets of men’s sexual health. This editorial seeks to highlight some of the main observations and findings relating to these themes from among the published contributions.

Before these are addressed, it is perhaps worth highlighting a few important issues that should be considered by everyone working in the field of men’s sexual health. These include the need to acknowledge and understand men’s macho attitudes and masculinity, men’s concerns over clinic confidentiality and mistrust of professionals, men’s perceptions as to whether specific sexual health services are for them or . . . [Full text of this article]


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