Unable to attend this years BASHH conference? Check out the tweets from those who did attend. Conference Twitter Feed https://twitter.com/hashtag/bashh16?vertical=default … [Read more...]
‘Charlie Sheen effect’ on HIV
22 February 2016 Google searches for HIV hit a record high in the US in the hours after actor Charlie Sheen announced that he was HIV positive, research reveals. Investigators found 2.75m more Google searches than expected, based on previous trends, shortly after Sheen had appeared on US TV in November. Web searches for condoms, HIV symptoms and HIV testing also … [Read more...]
Testing Times [Sexual Health in Universities, Bars & Saunas]
SSHA CONFERENCE 2013 SUMMARY “Testing Times” won the “Success in Partnership Working” category due to its close partnership working with Leeds Centre for Sexual Health delivering HIV testing services in non-clinical settings. In 2006, Yorkshire MESMAC launched the “Testing Times” service, to provide Chlamydia/Gonorrhoea tests and then rapid HIV testing in Leeds in response … [Read more...]
It Starts With Me
Every 90 minutes, someone in England is diagnosed with HIV. As a clinician in sexual health, you will know how vital it is to prevent HIV transmission and to ensure it is diagnosed in a timely fashion. A quarter of people living with HIV in England don’t know they have it and, across the UK, almost half are diagnosed after they should have started treatment. This briefing … [Read more...]
Guidance on HIV Prevention among those from high prevalence countries
Sent on Behalf of Shirley Windsor, NHS Health Scotland ________________________________ Dear Colleagues The Sexual Health and Bloodborne Virus Framework, issued by Scottish Government in 2011, drew together actions and outcomes underpinning Respect and Responsibility, the HIV Action Plan and the Hepatitis C Action Plan. Included in these actions was a focused piece of work … [Read more...]