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Association for Integral Health and Citizenship in Latin America (ASICAL)
Contact Information
Contact person: Mr. Ruben Mayorga, Executive Director
Address: Organization of Support for Integral Sexuality in the face of AIDS, OASIS/ASICAL, 6, Avenida 1-63 Zona 1, 01001 Guatemala City, Guatemala
Phone: (502 220 1332/3453
Fax: (502) 232 1021
E-mail: oasisgua@terra.com.gt
URL: http://www.sidalac.org.mx/asical/asical.html
http://www.sigla.org.ar/asical.htm
Description of services provided:
ASICAL is a network of 10 NGOs working on issues related to men who have sex with men (MSM) and HIV/AIDS. Its objective is to sensitize and mobilize social actors with a view to developing strategies and activities that ensure integral health and citizenship for Men who have sex with men.
Founding members are:
- Liga Colombiana de Lucha contra el SIDA, Bogotá, Colombia
- SIGLA, Sociedad para la Integración de Gay Lesbica Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Grupo Dignidade, Curitiba, Brasil
- Centro Académico de Estudios Homoeróticos, Universidad de Sao Paulo, Brasil
- Arco-Iris, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Grupo Gay de Bahia, Salvador, Brasil
- MUMS Movimiento Unificado de Minorías Sexuales, Santiago, Chile
- Grupo Equidad, Quito, Ecuador
- OASIS Organización de Apoyo a una Sexualidad Integral frente al SIDA, Guatemala, Guatemala
- Letra S, Mexico, D.F. Mexico
Associate Members:
- Fundación CEDOSEX: Centro de Documentación en Sexualidad, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- ABGLT, Brasil
Main mission and areas of work:
- Strengthen and increase the participation of community-based and PLWHA organizations in the national strategic planning processes.
- Identify, document and disseminate Best Practice examples and promote initiatives to reduce vulnerability to HIV/AIDS among MSM in Latin America.
Achievements/Publications/Resources:
- Through a series of sub-regional and national workshops on strategic planning on MSM and HIV/AIDS and intensive lobbying with governmental authorities, ASICAL and the project supported by UNAIDS have been instrumental in the inclusion of this crucial issue in the political and programmatic agenda of a good number of Central and Latin American countries.
- As a result of ASICAL and UNAIDS collaboration, a regional Task Force on MSM and HIV/AIDS has been created, based in the office of the UNAIDS Country Programme Adviser for the Southern Cone, in Buenos Aires.
 | | Locations | | Argentina | | Brazil | | Chile | | Ecuador | | Guatemala | | Mexico | | | | Interventions | | Care | | Community | | Orphans | | Prevention | | Treatment | | VTC | | Workplace | | Other | |
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