BURUNDI: A belated start to HIV prevention for gays

BUJUMBURA Tuesday, October 21, 2008 (IRIN) - When Georges Kanuma, the head of a gay rights movement in Burundi, first attended an HIV conference in 2004, he was surprised to discover that water-based lubricants, and not petroleum jelly - which breaks down the latex that condoms are made from - should be used during anal sex to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). "I had never heard of such a thing, and I know if I hadn't heard of it, then definitely most men who have...