Men’s Health Project

Men’s Health Project (MHP) focuses on gay, bisexual, and transgender health and wellness issues.  MHP is a program designed to meet and address individual and community health and wellness concerns, including participants who are incarcerated and injection drug users. MHP uses culturally competent and holistic prevention efforts that work to address individual needs on multiple levels. This is done by using programs that are effective at reducing and preventing the acquisition and transmission of HIV, Hepatitis, and other related sexually transmitted co-infections.

MHP is powered and supported by community volunteers, peer educators, and consumer advocates trained in confidentiality, safety, harm reduction, as well as HIV counseling and testing. These programs are taken out into the appropriate community gathering spaces, as well as where participants access other health treatment facilities in a collaborative effort to support participant’s access to information, and resources, including counseling and treatment.

MHP works to inform and educate through outreach HIV testing and counseling at gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community events, local GLBT clubs and gym, and local methadone clinics. Participants are reached by using multiple session presentations at local substance use treatment centers, and at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center. Innovative and ground breaking Internet chat-room interventions, street outreach, public sex environment outreach refer participants into HIV counseling and testing and group sessions.

If you have any questions regarding HIV/STIs, Hepatitis, or Men’s Health please call (505) 938-7100 or email (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).