25th February 2016 HIV charities across the country have united with health professional bodies to launch a new campaign opposing government cuts to HIV services. Charities from Liverpool to Leicestershire to London have come together with the British Association For Sexual Health And HIV and the British HIV Association to form Support People With HIV: Stop The Cuts. The … [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...]
London 2015 Conference – Presentations
Download the presentations from the SSHA Study Day FGM: Professionals, Policy and Practice - Obi Amadi, Lead Professional Officer The Psychology of Addiction- A current perspective on Chemsex - Dr Chris Hilton - Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist Psychosexual Work and Health Advisers - Lucy Snider - Health Adviser BME communities and HIV-what’s changed? - Professor Jane … [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...]
SSHA Conference: London 2006
A Second Draft of the Consultation Paper on Initial Sexual Health Adviser Education and Preparation - Developed by Anne McNall The Prevalence of Chlamydia Infection in Youth Offenders in HMP/YOI Holloway - Theresa Burns, Sexual Health Adviser Women’s Health Clinic, HMP/YOI Holloway & Marlborough Clinic, Royal Free Hospital The roles, responsibilities and job … [Read more...]