The Rapid Response Fund is an intervention of AIDS Alliance that helps in demanding situations where lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGBT) and Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) are facing discrimination, stigmatization and threats of violence that hinder their swift access to HIV services.
Gay and bisexual men who reported engaging in
chemsex (the use of specific drugs to enhance or facilitate sex) were
five times more likely to be newly diagnosed with HIV, nine times more
likely to be diagnosed with hepatitis C and four times more likely to be
diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) during a 13-month
follow-up period, according to London data published this week in HIV Medicine.