Everywhere in Japan: An international approach to working with commercial gay businesses in HIV prevention

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Sherriff, Nigel, Koerner, Jane, Kaneko, Noriyo, Shiono, Satoshi, Takaku, Michiko, Boseley, Ross and Ichikawa, Seiichi. (2017). Everywhere in Japan: An international approach to working with commercial gay businesses in HIV prevention. Health Promotion International. 32(3), pp. 522 - 534. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/dav096
AuthorsSherriff, Nigel, Koerner, Jane, Kaneko, Noriyo, Shiono, Satoshi, Takaku, Michiko, Boseley, Ross and Ichikawa, Seiichi
Abstract

In the UK and Japan, there is concern regarding rising rates of annual new HIV infections among Men who have Sex with Men (MSM). Whilst in the UK and Europe, gay businesses are increasingly recognized as being important settings through which to deliver HIV prevention and health promotion interventions to target vulnerable populations; in Japan such settings-based approaches are relatively underdeveloped. This article draws on qualitative data from a recently completed study conducted to explore whether it is feasible, acceptable and desirable to build on the recent European Everywhere project for adaptation and implementation in Japan. A series of expert workshops were conducted in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka with intersectoral representatives from Japanese and UK non-governmental organizations (NGOs), gay businesses, universities and gay communities (n = 46). Further discussion groups and meetings were held with NGO members and researchers from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's Research Group on HIV Prevention Policy, Programme Implementation and Evaluation among MSM (n = 34). The results showed that it is desirable, feasible and acceptable to adapt and implement a Japanese version of Everywhere. Such a practical, policy-relevant, settings-based HIV prevention framework for gay businesses may help to facilitate the necessary scale up of prevention responses among MSM in Japan. Given the high degree of sexual mobility between countries in Asia, there is considerable potential for the Everywhere Project (or its Japanese variant) to be expanded and adapted to other countries within the Asia-Pacific region.

KeywordsHIV prevention; MSM; Japan; intersectoral collaboration
Year2017
JournalHealth Promotion International
Journal citation32 (3), pp. 522 - 534
PublisherOxford University Press
ISSN0957-4824
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/dav096
Scopus EID2-s2.0-85021141690
Page range522 - 534
Research GroupSchool of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine
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Place of publicationUnited Kingdom
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