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Gay Men Fight AIDS, and more specifically, The LifeGuards program, is the organized continuation of several years of HIV prevention activities undertaken initially in the Seacoast NH area. Our roots go back to 1993 and the Health Project at AIDS Response Seacoast in Portsmouth, NH. Later, “STOP AIDS” style group interventions, and a “Training of the Trainers” program inspired a group of gay/bisexual men to come together in August of 1996. They formed the current organization, Gay Men Fight AIDS, Inc., a New Hampshire based, non-profit, all volunteer organization. Since that time this effort has reached a record number of men in New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, and Vermont with cutting edge, safer sex group interventions. We believe that HIV prevention for our community is part of a larger health care movement in which the needs of gay and bisexual men (and other at risk communities) must have priority over competition between AIDS Service Organizations, and the occasionally narrow limits of public health authorities. We emphasize collaboration with other regional prevention workers and programs to maximize outreach to men-at-risk. |
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