Date / Time Thurs 24th November 2011 5.30 for 6.00 - 8.00pm Location Seminar Room, Lloyd Clinic, Guys Hospital Programme 17.30 Tea / Coffee / Snacks 18.00 Welcome and introductions 18.15 "One night with Venus and a 1000 with Mercury - Re-emergence of Congenital Syphilis" Renee Aroney - St Georges Hospital 18.45 "Where are we now with Registration" - Zoe … [Read more...]
Cardiff 2011 Conference: Presentations & Feedback
Download all the presentations from the SSHA Study Day Presentations The Practitioner Route to the UK Public Health Register - UKPHR Provider Notification Audit - Implications for Practice - Fiona Johnston (Outreach Nurse), Richard Williams (Lead Health Adviser Western Sussex Hospitals Trust) Partner notification for chlamydia by postal kit: pilot study results - Gill … [Read more...]
The Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Framework 2011-2015
Introduction The Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Framework sets out the Scottish Government's agenda in relation to sexual health, HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B for the next four years. For the first time, these four policy areas have been brought together into a single integrated strategy. Building on the solid foundations of proven and successful Scottish Government … [Read more...]
New NAT report on RITA testing and HIV Prosecutions
Please find an electronic copy of NAT's latest report 'HIV Forensics II: Estimating the likelihood of recent HIV infection - Implications for criminal prosecutions'. The report is also available on the NAT website at: https://www.nat.org.uk/Our-thinking/Law-stigma-and-discrimination/Criminal-prosecutions.aspx RITA tests on HIV positive results to investigate recency of … [Read more...]
SSHA / NAT: HIV Partner Notification
Dear colleague, NAT (The National AIDS Trust) are currently undertaking a project looking at the issue of HIV partner notification. They are planning an expert seminar on the subject in the near future, focusing particularly on what measures could be taken to ensure that HIV partner notification is of a high, effective and consistent quality across clinical settings. They are … [Read more...]