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On 30 March 2012, Health4Men ambassadors and peer educators in Cape Town visited the Ekuphumleni Frail and Aged Care Centre in Gugulethu,NY1. These Health4Men representatives, offered their services for free to this community based centre. Over 35 MSM participated, in support of this initiative by performing various duties for Ekuphumleni.

Health4Men attended the City of Cape Town’s Sport, Recreation and Amenities Department when it officially opened the Khayelitsha Oliver Tambo Indoor Sport Centre on Wednesday, 21 March 2012. The facility serves as a recreation hub for the local community.

MEN who have sex with men (MSM) can now get specialised sexual health services at Soweto’s Zola Clinic. 

The Anova Health Institute’s Health4Men initiative launched the service at the clinic on 6 March 2012

WikiQueer, a gay, bi and trans online encyclopaedia has launched publicly this week.

The wiki site began collating content after its soft-launch last year and has now gone live.

Recreational drug use can make people more likely to be infected by HIV. Also, for people taking antiretroviral medications (ARVs) to fight HIV, there can be some serious interactions between drugs and ARVs. These interactions can lead to under- or overdoses of ARVs or recreational drugs. Some of these may be fatal.