Hendrix Health Center

• Check out with a friend or your LGBT student group and see where they would refer you for a provider
• Check out your campus health center for a LGBT friendly provider
• See if patient forms assume the gender of your partner

• Hepatitis B can be passed from one partner to another through anal sex
• Hepatitis A can be passed from one partner to another by oral contact through rimming (anal stimulation with the mouth or tongue) or oral contact with fingers which have been inserted in or around the anus during sex
  

Immunizations
STI - Hepatitis B

• The most effective way for anyone to prevent getting an STI is abstinence.
• If you choose to be sexually active, use safer sex practices
• Communicate with your partner
• Discuss getting tested for STI’s, and former risks taken

• use latex or polyurethane condoms
• keep condoms and supplies around so you have them available at any time
• use water based lubricants to reduce friction, increase comfort  and reduce risk of breakage
• use finger cots, a latex glove and water based lubrication for finger or hand penetration
• use a latex dam, saran wrap or cut a latex condom to make a dam for oral sex or rimming

• Most people with an STI have no symptoms
• The best way to know if you have an STI is to get tested
• In the United States the most frequent way men are exposed to HIV is having sex with another man

Link to STI section

• Anal cancer is an uncommon, often curable cancer that affects men and women but has a higher prevalence rate among men who have sex with men (MSM)
• Most anal cancers are associated with Human papillomavirus (HPV)
• Providers recommend annual anal pap smears to HIV-positive MSM
• Providers recommend biannual anal pap smears to HIV-negative MSM

HPV Section