The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand how Vancouver area gay, bi, and other MSM identify with, participate in, and define their communities, and discover how sexual health knowledge of HIV risk and HAART as an HIV prevention measure is accessed and shared within these different communities. This study also seeks to generate knowledge about the experiences with participation and recruitment in the main study, the first use of RDS among MSM in BC.
Participants in the qualitative study are purposefully sampled from among those who have been recruited through RDS and participated in the initial cross-sectional component of the Momentum Health Study. All qualitative study participants will take part in one-to-one face-to-face in depth interviews with a trained researcher.