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Home » SSHA Conference 2013: London

SSHA Conference 2013: London

July 19, 2013 By SSHA Leave a Comment


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Following the successful 2012 SSHA one day annual conference in Liverpool, SSHA is having its 2013 one day conference in

Location / Date

  • Unite Offices, Holborn London.
  • Saturday 21st of September 2013

Programme

  • 09:30 Registration Tea & Coffee
  • 09:45 Welcome from SSHA President
  • 10:00 ‘Testing Times ‘[Sexual Health in Unis, Bars & Saunas] – Tom Hunt – (Community Development Worker – Yorkshire MESMAC)
  • 10:30 ‘HIV Partner Notification’ – Gill Bell & Maeve Cross [Sexual Health Adviser],
  • 11:30 ‘Why BASHH Needs Health Advisers’- Ceri Evans (Senior Health Adviser – West London centre for Sexual Health), Heather Wilson (Senior Health Adviser – Clare Simpson Clinic)
  • 12:00 ‘Managing a Health Adviser team in times of Austerity – Robert Palmer [Lead Health Adviser, Specialist Psychotherapist – Guy’s & St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust]
  • 12:30 AGM
  • 12:45 Lunch
  • 13:30 ‘Pills powders pleasure and passion – a fab night out or a bad morning in waiting?’ – Dr Adam R Winstock – Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist & Addiction Medicine Specialist South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust/Senior Lecturer Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London/Founder Global Drug Survey
  • 14:15 ‘PROUD Study / PrEP( Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV) in the UK ‘- Richard Stack (Senior Health Adviser – 56 Dean Street)
  • 14:45 Debate:

This house believes that providing PrEP to HIV
negative MSM’s is an effective health promotion strategy

FOR: Dr. Michael Rayment

AGAINST: Jonathan Roberts

Chair: Martin Murchie

  • 15:15 Tea & Coffee
  • 15:45 ‘The New National HIV Prevention Programme for England – Targeting our most at risk populations (MARPs)’ – Patrick Dollard – MBARC
  • 16:15 ‘Dry Blood Spot testing for HIV in Greater Manchester’ – David Freeman Powell – Greater Manchester Chlamydia Screening Coordinator
  • 16:45 Open Discussion & Closing Statement
  • 17:00 Close

Booking your place

  • Please book your place early as last year we had an enormous amount of interest and could not allocate everyone a place.
  • If there is enough interest we may run two separate one day events this year.
  • David Wilson the SSHA treasurer will again be managing all applications so please. E-mail him to book your place along with payment.
  • A conference place will be confirmed on receipt of payment
  • The costs will be £75.00 for SSHA members and. £85.00 for non-SSHA members.
  • Please check our website, Facebook and Twitter pages for more information re. the programme and venue.

Thanks,

Jamie, Paul, David and Martin Murchie (SSHA President)

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