Dear BASHH member, We have two items for you to note in this email: BASHH-BHIVA conference 2014 A gentle reminder: the deadline for this year’s BASHH-BHIVA for standard registration is the 17th of January. There cannot be any extensions. The programme is very exciting with a mix of sexual health and HIV medicine. Please make sure your abstracts are submitted by the … [Read more...]
PROUD Study / PrEP (Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV) in the UK
SSHA CONFERENCE 2013 Summary In July 2012, the US Food and Drugs Administration approved the use of a daily regimen of oral Truvada (tenofovir co-formulated with emtricitabine) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to reduce the sexual acquisition of HIV infection. Based on the existing evidence, the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) and British HIV … [Read more...]
ALERT : High risk of loss of NAM’s treatment information publications from your clinic
There is a high risk that the service NAM has offered your clinics – providing information resources free of charge for well over a decade – will have to be withdrawn at the end of June. Pledge your support www.aidsmap.com/support-nam NAM lost its NHS funding to provide free information resources at the end of March. Currently, none of the commissioning structures … [Read more...]
Time to test for HIV – Multidisciplinary conference in support of World AIDS Day – Presentations
Introduction This one-day national conference was scheduled for World AIDS Day on 1 December 2010 and was organised by the British HIV Association (BHIVA), British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH), Department of Health, Health Protection Agency, Royal College of Physicians, Children's HIV Association (CHIVA), HIV Pharmacy Association (HIVPA) and National HIV … [Read more...]