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5. Bring everyone back together. Ask each small group put up their flipchart andreport back on their discussion. After each report, allow a few minutes for therest of the group to ask questions and make comments.6. Discuss the actions recommended by the small groups, using the followingquestions and the information in the closing to discuss the answers:? How best can men use their privilege and power to promote health andprevent pregnancies/HIV/STIs?? What can men do to be more involved in caring for family and friends whoare living with HIV/AIDS (e.g., home-based care).? How do men’s roles in promoting health and prevention link to genderequality?7. Make a note of the group’s suggestions for action on men’s roles in HIVprevention on the Ecological Model.ClosingMen can use their privilege and power in several ways to prevent HIV/STIsand unintended pregnancies. The most immediate role men have in sexualhealth is in their own sexual lives. The privilege that men are granted because oftheir gender give them power over women in sexual decision making. With powercomes responsibility. Men can use this responsibility to protect themselves andtheir sexual partners from HIV/STI infection and unintended pregnancy. But menalso have power in the family, the community, and the workplace. They can use thispower to promote STI/HIV and pregnancy prevention, and support genderequality in order to reduce women’s sexual vulnerability.Promoting gender equality must be central to men’s roles in HIV prevention.Acting in their roles in the family and community, one of the biggest contributionsmen can make to HIV prevention, is to promote gender equality. Women’s lowersocial, economic, and political power is the basis of their greater vulnerability toHIV. Increasingly, HIV/AIDS is becoming a women’s disease in Africa. In takingaction on HIV, men need to listen to women, act as allies rather than protectors,and challenge sexist attitudes, behaviors, and policies.75