Hay muchas cosas que hago para cuidar mi salud. Pero con relación específica a mi salud sexual, cuando tengo relaciones sexuales eventuales siempre utilizo condón, además he tratado de limitar mi número de parejas sexuales (aunque no siempre lo he logrado..!).
Desde hace un tiempo, tengo una relación estable con un chico; hace algunos meses, nos dimos cuenta que nos estábamos descuidando y que a veces no utilizábamos protección; por lo que decidimos realizarnos pruebas de detección de HIV*, VPH y Sífilis, pero además acordamos utilizar condón si teníamos una relación eventual con otras personas... Quizá no es una formula que funcione para todas las parejas, ni para todas las personas, pero para mi ha funcionado!
*Tres y seis meses después nos testemos nuevamente para VIH.
There are many things that I do to stay healthy. But with specific regard to my sexual health, when I have sexual relations I always use a condom, and moreover I have tried to limit my number of sexual partners (even though I don’t always succeed in doing so…!).
For some time I have had a stable relationship with a boy; a couple of months ago we realized that we were not taking care of ourselves and that sometimes we didn’t use protection; and so we decided to take HIV*, HPV and syphilis detection tests, but we also agreed to use condoms if we had sexual relations with other people… Maybe this is not a formula that works for every pair, or for every person, but for me it did work!
*Three and six months later we tested again for HIV.
-- Javier Arellano
Mexico City
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The AIDS 2008 Impact Report, a report of the key learning from the XVII International AIDS Conference, held in Mexico City in August 2008, is now available here.
The report is also available on the AIDS 2008 homepage, as well as the IAS homepage.
According to the IAS, the report is not meant to capture all of the hundreds of sessions, events and activities at AIDS 2008 (as no one report could reasonably do this), rather it is an analysis/reflection on the key learning in the following areas:
- Epidemiology
- Basic and Clinical Research
- Biomedical Prevention Research
- Regional Focus
- and a section on how AIDS 2008 and previous international AIDS conferences have contributed to the overall response to HIV/AIDS
All analyses are referenced to sessions/abstracts.
Please note that several organizations are producing their own reports associated with conference activities, or key issues/areas of focus during AIDS 2008, and we will make them available on the AIDS 2008 website as well.
Mexico City — Mexico can be intolerant of homosexuality; it can also be quite liberal. Gay-bashing incidents are not uncommon in the countryside, where many Mexicans consider homosexuality a sin. In Mexico City, meanwhile, same-sex domestic partnerships are legally recognized — and often celebrated lavishly in government offices as if they were marriages. But nowhere are attitudes toward sex and gender quite as elastic as in the far reaches of the southern state of Oaxaca. There, in the indigenous communities around the town of Juchitán, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight. The local Zapotec people have made room for a third category, which they call “muxes” (pronounced MOO-shays) — men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders.
“Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer,” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.
Anthropologists trace the acceptance of people of mixed gender to pre-Colombian Mexico, pointing to accounts of cross-dressing Aztec priests and Mayan gods who were male and female at the same time. Spanish colonizers wiped out most of those attitudes in the 1500s by forcing conversion to Catholicism. But mixed-gender identities managed to survive in the area around Juchitán, a place so traditional that many people speak ancient Zapotec instead of Spanish.
Click here for the rest of this New York Times story, plus more great photos.
