This session is to be completed before attending any of the topic based Masterclass sessions.

2. This session is to be completed before attending any of the topic based Masterclass sessions. Please take about 45/50 minutes. Each slide provides information and throughout the presentation there are questions posed during which you are asked to take some time to reflect. In preparation for your participation in any of the MSM Masterclass sessions it may be useful to note down your responses to the questions. This preparatory session draws on many sources of information but a significant amount of input to this module and the MSM Masterclass itself is the HIV Prevention Needs Assessment conducted by NHS GGC and NHS Lothian and funded by Scottish Government. There will be more about how to find out about findings in detail at the end of this session. Introduction By the end of this session you will have: • Good levels of background information which will help you engage fully with the forthcoming MSM Masterclass. • Recognised the disproportionate burden of ill-health experienced by the population of interest: gay, bisexual and men who have sex with men (MSM). • Understood some of the cultural and political reasons, as well as some key concepts and ideas, which explain the health inequalities experienced. • Considered further how, as a professional working with gay, bisexual and MSM you might use this learning to influence the relationships you have with individual men.