Speaking Out Advocacy Toolkit: A Toolkit for MSM-Led HIV & AIDS Advocacy

Speaking Out is an advocacy toolkit created to address the need for men who have sex with men (MSM) to engage in advocacy locally, nationally, and globally to end the HIV epidemic and promote their human rights. The toolkit aims to equip individuals and organisations with tools and techniques that enable them to become advocates.

This toolkit builds on past toolkits, with some key differences: “(1) it is specifically MSM-focused with exercises and ideas that serve as conduits for the energy and contributions of MSM communities; (2) it is built on the belief that organizations can start where they are, and assumes that the skill sets of individual advocates and organizational maturity of MSM groups are wide-ranging and take time to develop; and (3) it approaches HIV and AIDS from a broad human rights framework, balancing public health and human rights approaches toward addressing MSM community susceptibility to HIV.”  The toolkit was first piloted in the summer of 2010 at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria.

To access this toolkit, a free membership sign-in is required.

Contents include the following:
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Advocacy
Chapter 2 - Investment
Chapter 3 - Services
Chapter 4 - Stigma and Discrimination
Chapter 5 – Research
Chapter 6 - Civil Society and Networks
Chapter 7 - Self Care and Working in Hostile Environments
Chapter 8 - United Nations Human Rights Mechanisms
Chapter 9 - How-to Resources
Handouts