Grupo Nexo is a nonprofit civil association established in 1992 and incorporated in 1996.

Dedicated to fight discrimination, it launches, in 1993, a magazine – NX, gay journalism for all – aimed at the gay, lesbian, travesti, transgendered and bisexual (GLTTB) community. The magazine currently has a 12000 readership, being distributed in the city of Buenos Aires, in main Argentinean cities, as well as in Santiago (Chile), Asunción (Paraguay), Lima (Peru) and Montevideo (Uruguay).

Since April of 1999, Grupo Nexo maintains an agreement with La France disco, one of the largest in Buenos Aires, through which it opens its doors on Friday nights, as OXEN Disco, an open space to all sexualities.

These two enterprises allow Grupo Nexo to fund part of its preventive activities (Nexo Salud) and the task it carries out for the rights of sexual minorities.

Grupo Nexo started the creation of Nexo Salud in 1995, the only health center in the country specifically aimed at the GLTB community.

Nexo Salud currently has an interdisciplinary team formed by physicians, psychologists, attorneys, social workers, pharmacists, social psychologists, and a methodologist specialized in the social field. It also has a team of volunteer counselors who are specifically qualified in sexualities and HIV-AIDS.

There are about sixty people, within Grupo Nexo, who routinely work at different enterprises, and furthermore, there is a team of outside collaborators: journalists, photographers, graphic designers, attorneys, therapeutic companions, etc. Most of these people contribute in a voluntary and uninterested manner.

Nexo Salud’s current activities are:

• Monthly publication of Dossier NX Positivo [NX Positive File] that is freely distributed to organizations throughout the country, whether they belong to the GLTB community or not. (Actually suspended)

• Free testing at our headquarters, a task by which Grupo Nexo is considered a center of epidemiological watch for the homosexual community, by the Government of Buenos Aires’ AIDS Bureau.

• Information hotline on sexuality and HIV-AIDS – 4374 4484

• Anti-retroviral medication bank

• Interdisciplinary Group for drug users aimed at the homosexual population

• Medical care in different specializations

• Psychotherapeutic Assistance specialized in HIV, sexualities and the coming out process

• Legal counseling in collaboration with LIDEMS – Liga de Defensa de las Minorías Sexuales [League for the Defense of Sexual Minorities]

• Monthly workshops on specific information about HIV–AIDS

• Orientation service in sexualities and HIV–AIDS

• Hands-on workshops for persons living with HIV–AIDS

• Meditation groups for gays and lesbians

• Within Grupo Nexo headquarters is the library named “Escrita en el Cuerpo” offering material on lesbian, feminist and sexuality issues
Grupo Nexo has been working from the start, with a methodological criterion in prevention as well as in training, and its activities lie within investigative projects.

• 1998-1999 Conscientization and Testing Project (done)

• 1999-2000 Project for the involvement of persons living with HIV–AIDS, in the primary and secondary prevention (done)

• 2000-2002 Assessment of sexual conducts and evaluation of risks for STDs and AIDS in travestis and gay and bisexual males

• 2002-2003 Sensibilization and testing project in the travesti community in the City of Buenos Aires

• 2002-2003 Prevention and testing project in sex workers in the City of Buenos Aires
In collaboration with the National Reference Center (CNR) for AIDS, from the School of Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires:

• 2001-2002 Free testing project for HIV in the travesti and gay and bisexual male population

• 2001-2002 Viral typification project in travesti and gay and bisexual males in the City of Buenos Aires

• 2001-2002 Viral typification and testing project in the interior of the country

• 2001-2002 Project of HIV incidence in the travesti and gay and bisexual male population in the City of Buenos Aires

• 2003-2005 Nexo Cohorte (Seroprevalence and Seroincidence for VIH, Hepatitis and Syphilis in Gay Men population)
In collaboration with GTZ and the AIDS Bureau of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires:

• 2001-2002 Free testing project for HIV in the travesti and gay and bisexual male population
In collaboration with AMMAR (Asociación de Mujeres Meretrices de la Repúbli-ca Argentina – Sexual Workers Females):

• 2000-2001 Counseling at Free testing and Viral Typification project for HIV in Sex Workers population in the Cyti of Buenos Aires and in the interior of the country.