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Making it Count - a collaborative planning framework to reduce the incidence of HIV infection during sex between men

Duration: March 1998 - March 2012

First published in 1998, Making it Count (also known as MiC) is the collaborative planning framework of the CHAPS Partnership, setting out the way in which we approach HIV prevention and education with gay men and bisexual men in England. The MiC framework was updated and expanded in 2000. Since 2001, the Department of Health’s National Strategy for Sexual Health and HIV has recommended Making it Count as the strategic framework for planning HIV prevention at both national and local levels. The current edition of Making it Count was published in October 2003.

We are currently at the public consultation stage of the fourth edition of Making it Count, which has been rewritten and fully updated.The fourth edition recognises the range of choices facing men who have sex with men that impact on HIV incidence, and increases the focus on the motivational factors informing the decisions men make. It is a synthesis of an education and empowerment approach with one that employs values and social norms in order to promote the best sex with the least harm among gay and bisexual men.The CHAPS Partners are in broad agreement with this draft document but it does not currently form the policy of any of the CHAPS agencies. The Partners are very keen to garner a broad range of opinions on the draft document, and invite comments before 14th June 2010. This consultation was launched on 16th April 2010.

Making it Count is funded by Terrence Higgins Trust as part of CHAPS, a national HIV prevention initiative funded by the Department of Health. It is co-ordinated and published by Sigma Research.

Key contact:

CHAPS national delivery partners:
Terrence Higgins Trust
GMFA
NAM

CHAPS regional lead agencies:
East of England lead agency: Terrence Higgins Trust East
East Midlands lead agency: Trade Sexual Health
London lead agencies: The Metro Centre London and Terrence Higgins Trust
North East lead agency: none at present
North West lead agency: The Lesbian and Gay Foundation
South Central lead agency: Terrence Higgins Trust Thames
South East Coast lead agency: Terrence Higgins Trust South
South West lead agencies: The Eddystone Trust and Terrence Higgins Trust West
West Midlands lead agencies: Healthy Gay Living and Terrence Higgins Trust Midlands
Yorkshire & Humber lead agency: Yorkshire MESMAC