WHAT
YOU CAN FIND ON THIS WEBSITE
You can primarily find sexual health information & resources for Gay men
in the North of England.
Please note:
This
is the website of a group of sexual health, support and information
projects working with Gay and Bisexual men. This website contains
imagery, language and resources appropriate to this work – please
be aware of this before you go any further.
Donations made to Yorkshire MESMAC are used to support the work of our volunteers. If you would like us to use your donation differently, please let us know by clicking here to email us or by calling us on 0113 2444209.
New Developments in Leeds Sexual Health
DV8 Physical Theatre - To Be Straight With You
New Beginnings in Wakefield
Yorkshire MESMAC Announces New Patrons
Outing the LGB History of West Yorkshire
Free Counselling Service now in Calderdale and Kirklees
Investors in People Award
HIV - an update
Love Safe Llve Sexy
Testing Times
Screen Scene
Syphilis
MESVAC
Criminalisation of HIV Transmission
If you have any news or upcoming events that you would like to display here, please email us with a short paragraph and we will give it due consideration. We also reserve the right to edit any material submitted.
A quiet revolution has been taking place in Wakefield. Begin - Living and Learning with HIV, have decided to become part of Yorkshire MESMAC Group of Services.....click here to read the full story.
Yorkshire MESMAC Annnounces New Patrons
Yorkshire MESMAC are delighted that Baroness Gould of Potternewton, or Joyce to everyone who knows her has agreed to become a Patron of the Charity....click here to read the full story.
Outing the LGB History of West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire Archive Service is creating and supporting digital community archive projects to record and preserve the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual history of West Yorkshire, and they need your memories to do it! Click here to read the full story.
Two of the regions leading charities working with Gay, Bisexual and men who have sex with men are working together to ensure that men across....click here to read the full story.
Yorkshire MESMAC is pleased to announce that we have achieved the Investors in People Award....click here to read the full story.
Gay and Bisexual men remain the largest group infected with
HIV that has been acquired in the UK....click here to read the full story.
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Yorkshire MESMAC has come up with a handy guide to using condoms.
You can get free condoms via our online confi'doms service if you click here
click here
for the pdf on condom use
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The free, fast, flexible, confidential and convenient way for you to get an HIV test in Leeds...click here to read the fully story.
Now they’re really taking the piss. Yorkshire MESMAC have added Gonorrhoea screening to their scene screen programme...click here to read the full story.
MESVAC
from Yorkshire MESMAC is a Free Community Hepatitis B Vaccination
service for Gay and Bisexual men...click here to read the full story.
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Criminalisation of HIV Transmission
The legal situation regarding HIV transmission is confusing and ever-changing....click here to read the full story.
Staff
from the local GUMs have informed us that Syphilis amongst
Gay men is on the increase. For information on the detection,
prevention and treatment of Syphilis please click
here or for more information about your local GUM clinic
please click here.
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Across the top of each page are listed the different areas of the site. When you enter a page you can find more in depth information by using the options down the left hand side of the page. Should you get lost your route has been tracked and shows just above ABOUT US on the purple bar
Our HOME PAGE
Highlights current work that Yorkshire
MESMAC is undertaking, upcoming events & forthcoming training
programmes.
From here you can get information on GUM clinics in North and West Yorkshire,
and link directly with the microsites for our Counselling service, the BLAST!
Project, the Our project , our Youth work in Wakefield and the Leeds LGB Switchboard.
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The ABOUT US section
Explains how we work and lists all of our four offices around the region, the work they do and contact numbers. Our staff and Board of Trustee members are also featured. [top]
The SEX section
Contains a selection of our sexual health resources, which we produce & distribute around the regions’ bars, pubs, clubs & public sex environments. You can also find out how to get free condoms and lube. [top]
This is the place to find out more about groups that run throughout North and West Yorkshire; the residentials we run and any forthcoming events we are involved in. [top]
This section has details of the training and consultancy opportunities we offer. [top]
This section will help you get free things from us, including a quarterly magazine, condoms and lube, and free copies of the local gay press. [top]
Is where we have links to other groups, agencies or services that we think you might be interested in. [top]
Here you can find downloadable copies of research commissioned by Yorkshire MESMAC, as well as other research documents. [top]
Lists our sites contact details, by phone, email and post. [top]