Happy Holidays!
December 18, 2020
OUT, Engage Men’s Health, the Love Not Hate project and related services are closed for the festive season until Monday 4 January 2021.
Organisation Info
Servicing the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community
OUT provides services to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) and MSM communities, including HIV testing, counselling, treatment, prevention and general sexual health and lifestyle support. We also work to eradicate LGBT hate crimes and assist victims through our Love Not Hate programme.
OUT has been in existence for more than 25 years and is dedicated to the building of healthy and empowered LGBT communities in South Africa and internationally, while reducing heterosexism and homophobia in society.
PrEP is helping to reduce HIV infections in the UK
November 25, 2020
New HIV diagnoses in gay and bisexual men are at their lowest in 20 years in the UK, attributed in part to the growing use of PrEP, the daily HIV prevention pill.
Life Tips: Choosing life
November 24, 2020
“You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access
We mourn the loss of Clement Matlala
It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of our dear colleague and friend Clement Matlala. Clement’s sudden passing has come as a
October 29, 2020
The first person cured of HIV has passed away
Timothy Ray Brown, the openly gay man who became the first person to be completely cured of HIV, has died of leukaemia. The IAS (International
October 2, 2020
Life Tips: Perseverance
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A Edison
Here are some qualities that lead to perseverance when faced with adversity…
September 25, 2020
LGBT community still faces healthcare discrimination in SA
A new report that looks at community-led healthcare delivery to LGBT people in South Africa has found that these individuals continue to experience discrimination when accessing public healthcare services.
The Quality Through Inclusion? report was produced as a collaboration between OUT LGBT Well-being, Triangle Project and the Gender, Health and Justice Research Unit at the University of Cape Town and was funded by COC Netherlands.
September 10, 2020
TEN81 joins the Engage Men’s Health family
From the 1st of October 2020, the groundbreaking TEN81 clinic in Hatfield will be renamed Engage Men’s Health Pretoria. Managed by OUT LGBT Well-being, the free clinic was the first in the city to specifically serve the sexual health and well-being needs of gay, bisexual and other MSM (men who have sex with men).
September 9, 2020
Services
Have you been threatened, hit, raped or had your property damaged or stolen because you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or intersex (LGBTI)? Then you have been a victim of a hate crime.
Currently OUT distributes safer sex packs to a range of venues in Tshwane that are utilised by gay men and lesbian women. These packs also include responsible sex messaging, appropriate barrier methods and lube.
The psychosocial support services are free, offered by trained and experienced lay counsellors and include:
OUT's Engage Men’s Health project offers free and confidential sexual health services to gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM).
OUT launched the men2men website in 2007 and the womyn2womyn website in 2012. These websites were the first of their kind in South Africa.