Guidelines and Recommendations

HIV/AIDS

• Revised Recommendations for HIV Testing of Adults, Adolescents, and Pregnant Women in Health-Care Settings, MMWR 2006 - PDF
• Recommendations for Partner Services Programs for HIV Infection, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, and Chlamydial Infection
• Incorporating HIV Prevention into the Medical Care of Persons Living with HIV
• HIV Health Education and Risk Reduction Guidelines
  
  
• All HIV/AIDS Guidelines and Recommendations

STDs

• CDC STD Treatment Guidelines: Special Populations—Men Who Have Sex with Men
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines 2006
• Recommendations for Partner Services Programs for HIV Infection, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, and Chlamydial Infection

• STD Surveillance, 2008—STDs in Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM)
• Screening and Testing Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) for Syphilis

• Syphilis

• Focus on MSM—Syphilis Elimination Toolkit
• Syphilis Elimination Effort Literature Review Focused on Men Who Have Sex with Men and Their Attitudes and Perceptions of Syphilis

Hepatitis

• Hepatitis Fact Sheet for Gay and Bisexual Men (covers Hepatitis ABC)

• Prevention of Hepatitis A Through Active or Passive Immunization:
  Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
  MMWR 2006;55(RR-7)

MRSA

• Community-Associated Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA)
• CDC Statement on MRSA in Men Who Have Sex with Men
• MMWR Public Health Dispatch: Outbreaks of Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Skin Infections—Los Angeles County, California, 2002-2003. (February 7, 2003)
• National MRSA Education Initiative
• California Department of Public Health MRSA Fact Sheet
• California Department of Public Health MRSA Clinical Update for Providers  (February 2008)

Substance Abuse

• A Provider's Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals—Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

Other Resources

• Sexual History Taking
  • A Guide to Sexual History Taking with Men Who Have Sex with Men
  • Knowing Your Patients:Taking a History and Providing Risk Reduction Counseling
• The Fenway Institute
• Resources for Health Professionals
• Professional Education for Health Professionals
• Talking about Safer Sex with Your Patients