This paper is supported by a socio-anthropological study focused on a sample of HIV test made in Madrid among homosexual men, in order to explore why this kind of population refuses or delays making HIV analyses. From a practical point of view, we try to generate new approach designs to make these social actors change their minds toward the tests. During the field work we detect five manners to react in relation to the HIV epidemic, labeled as: prevention, typical gay, isolation, self-confident, and survival. Each of one of these categories has been understood interlinking the strategies used to access (or not) the HIV test with the cultural framework meanings and the social conditions in which these strategies are generated and carried out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]