Health

Let's keep our minds and bodies fit! Here you can find news and articles about gay and queer health.

Crystal Meth & Sexdates gegen schlimme Gedanken
Who dares to open up about their sex and love life on stage in front of an audience - from their first wet dream in the cot to bad experiences with crystal meth? Ben Strothmann has done it - and the world can watch him do it online until 31 March. In his one-man show "Coming Clean", the 42-year-old talks about his life, first as a gay teenager in Milwaukee, then as an unsuccessful actor in New York.
PrEP
Milan is one of around 5,000 men taking part in the international PrEP study DISCOVER. The aim of the study is to test whether the combination drug Descovy is just as suitable for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis ("pills to protect against HIV") as its predecessor Truvada and the Truvada generics.
PrEP
Have you decided to take PrEP? And would you like to start right now? Well, you can't just get PrEP at every corner. What exactly is involved in starting PrEP and, above all, how long it can take from deciding in favour of PrEP to taking your first tablets.
Neue Daten zu PrEP-Gebrauch und zu „Chemsex“ unter schwulen Männern
The first results of the major survey EMIS 2017 (European MSM Internet Survey) have now been presented at the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam. The focus is on gay and bisexual men from Europe and other countries. EMIS 2017 comes with fresh data on sexual health, mental well-being and the use of alcohol and other stimulating substances.
Für Enrico, 36, ist das Kondom nicht out. Ganz im Gegenteil.
Safer sex 3.0: The condom is probably the best-known safer sex method to protect yourself from HIV. Many gay men still successfully use condoms today. One of them is Enrico, 36 from Leipzig. Here he explains how he deals with the issue of safer sex and why he still prefers to use a condom.