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<p>Since 2005, China Global Fund AIDS programs have considered men who have sex with
men (MSM) an "at-risk population" with priority and significance to receiving HIV
testing. Community-based organizations (CBOs) have been involved in implementing the
intervention programs, including free HIV testing, to MSM. This thesis explores the
consequences of HIV testing as an intervention on local MSM's perceptions and relationships.
Participant observation, in-depth interview and textual analysis were conducted during
fieldwork research at a local CBO. It is argued that the complexities of everyday
practices of public health programs at the community-level need to be emphasized in
supervision. The success of China's HIV/AIDS intervention strategies is at stake:
free HIV testing needs to be implemented as a benefit to testing receivers' health
instead of as an obligation or commodity. In everyday practice, HIV testing is full
of complexities and via HIV testing, interrelations among CDC system, local CBOs,
and local MSM are reproduced and images and perceptions of free HIV testing are reconstructed.
Moreover, receiving HIV testing was integrated into a new moral discourse of how to
be a "good" MSM. It is recommended for local CBOs to cultivate their professionalization,
and be aware of new stigmatization produced by free HIV testing. Meanwhile, a transition
of local governmentality and supervision technologies is needed.</p>
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