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International Rectal Microbicide Advocates (IRMA) Does Delhi
July 2008

As chair of IRMA, you may say I have a certain booty bias in my perceptions -- and I won't argue. But let me say, I think our burgeoning advocacy network really took the Microbicides 2008 conference in New Delhi this past February by storm.

It all started with the utterance of the melodious words -- "rectal microbicides" -- in the opening remarks given by Dr. Anbamani Ramadoss, India's Minister of Health and Family Welfare. Sure, just a mention, but so significant ... and such a huge statement on how far the rectal microbicide field has come, from laughable and obscure to, as rectal guru Dr. Ian McGowan likes to say, "almost embarrassing respectability." I was absolutely thrilled to be embarrassed.

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Jim Pickett is a Chicago-based consultant, writer, activist and advocate, as well as a gay man living with HIV. His bi-monthly, often irreverent, sometimes schizophrenic column "Pickett Fences" runs in the national HIV/AIDS magazine Positively Aware and can be read here and at tpan.com. He may be contacted directly at jimberlypickett@aol.com. If you'd like to be on his free listserv covering gay men's health, HIV/AIDS, liberal politics and a number of social issues that stoke his fire, drop him an e-mail.

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