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Finally finished reading 25+.
If anyone thought beforehand that this was going to be a coffee table book they must now be seriously dismayed at the amount of reading material stuffed into this epistle.

Conclusions?
There are a lot of gay poz men who know damn well what they want and need but aren't getting it for one reason or another.
Hiv and Aids is slipping out of the grasp of several institutions who need it to stay alive.
All is fair in love and war when it comes to manipulating facts and figures in order to support your own story (and keep your grants coming in).
Some directors really do have an enormously high opinion of themselves.
A lot of people in the care sector really do care.
A lot of doctors and specialists etc are convinced that the input of gay poz men absolutely necessary is in order to move forward in any direction whatsoever.
The institutions that were/are existing for gay men in the Netherlands have declared hiv a 'non-event' in the Netherlands, and have somehow managed to justify spending all their government money on projects that have nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with the Netherlands.

My greatest conclusion from taking all of this in is that 'we', gay poz men, need a
Gay Men's Health Centre.
Privately funded, or at least to the point where it is not susceptible to political fun and games.
Open only to Gay Poz Men, run by Gay Men (so possible Poz).
SOA tests, hiv tests, Hep A,B, HPV vaccinations. Anal Cancer tests.
Gay Male General Practitioners.
Gay Male psycho-social help. Individual and group therapies.
Alternative therapies, treatments etc.

Information gathering over Gay (Poz) Men available to institutions such as the GGD onder strict controls.
Active discouragement of Gay Men taking part in (for example) Schorer Monitor, GGD Monitor etc.

Ayone want to help me give it a try?

Gay Poz Men for Gay Poz Men - only we know how it should be
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