12-07-08 ARSRC is hosting two visiting scholars from Ethiopia and Uganda under its Fellows programme.

12-07-08 ARSRC is hosting 19 fellows for the fifth edition of its Sexuality Leadership Development Fellowship.

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12-07-08 Apply for the 2008-2009 ARSRC Visiting Fellows Programme.

26-05-08 Sexuality in Africa Magazine Vol. 5 Issue 1 "Unusual Marriage and Sexual Health and Rights in Africa" is online.

Men, Sexuality and Health in the Context of HIV and AIDS

12-07-08 It is common knowledge among researchers and other interest groups that HIV infection and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) are on the rise among men in Sub -Saharan Africa, yet the reason for this increase still remains blurred. In Nigeria, most of the international aid resources towards the prevention of HIV is mainly focused on heterosexual sexual groups with special attention to women, adolescents and children. Very little epidemiologic and behavioural information from Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole exists on male same sex activities. As a result, the role of men who have sex with men (MSM) in the HIV epidemic in Nigeria and the rest of Africa   remains to some extent controversial.

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