Considerations for Informing Safer Sex Education Work with Men with Learning Disabilities

The sexuality of men with learning disabilities suggests that sexual health should be placed alongside consent to sex as a priority for sex education. This paper reviews HIV prevention and safer sex education work with men with learning disabilities, identifying considerations for responding to HIV in its third decade. While the effective targeting of HIV prevention remains with men with learning disabilities who have sex with men, new considerations are also emerging from experience with sex education, staff training and HIV prevention more widely, helping reshape and inform service responses and individual work.