A community research training and consultation was held in Beijing from the 17th to 21st December 2010 among positive MSM community representatives from 4 Chinese cities: Beijing, Chengdu, Kunming, and Shanghai. The intention was to build upon a
2009 Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV (APN+) treatment access study among positive men who have sex with men (MSM) in 6 countries: India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Nepal and Singapore. As with the 2009 study, the research framework was designed to ensure community participation in the fundamentals of research, and encourage collaboration in the design process, the methodology of participatory research is employed.

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