Gay men: help with our new manual

02/03/15 . News

We need your help with our new men's health booklet for gay men. We'd like you to either:

  • read the draft (in PDF) and give us your feedback OR
  • if you're a bit busy just help us to come up with a good title (this will take just 2 minutes).

The two surveys are here. Just choose the one that suits you. (The full survey is below the title survey so just scroll down)

Choose title survey

This will take 2 minutes

 

Feedback on draft

This will take as long as you want - minimum c.10 minutes

The Men’s Health Forum need your support

It’s tough for men to ask for help but if you don’t ask when you need it, things generally only get worse. So we’re asking.

In the UK, one man in five dies before the age of 65. If we had health policies and services that better reflected the needs of the whole population, it might not be like that. But it is. Policies and services and indeed men have been like this for a long time and they don’t change overnight just because we want them to.

It’s true that the UK’s men don’t have it bad compared to some other groups. We’re not asking you to ‘feel sorry’ for men or put them first. We’re talking here about something more complicated, something that falls outside the traditional charity fund-raising model of ‘doing something for those less fortunate than ourselves’. That model raises money but it seldom changes much. We’re talking about changing the way we look at the world. There is nothing inevitable about premature male death. Services accessible to all, a population better informed. These would benefit everyone - rich and poor, young and old, male and female - and that’s what we’re campaigning for.

We’re not asking you to look at images of pity, we’re just asking you to look around at the society you live in, at the men you know and at the families with sons, fathers and grandads missing.

Here’s our fund-raising page - please chip in if you can.

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