It grew from the national AIDS Support Network established in 1984 by Bruce Burnett, Bill Logan and Phil Parkinson.
[citation needed] There are also NZAF-trained professional contractors providing HIV and syphilis rapid testing and counselling in many other regions across New Zealand.
program uses the Big Gay Out festival as an avenue to promote safe sex and develop condom culture in New Zealand.
A survey administered during the 2012 Big Gay Out festival determined that those who stayed longer were more knowledgeable and positive toward condom culture and felt that the Get it on!
Love Your Condom (LYC) is New Zealand Aids Foundation’s social marketing programme for gay and bisexual men.
It addresses a complex mix of attitudinal, behavioural and social change amongst a community that can be difficult to define and reach.