Tuesday 3 December 2013

National HIV Testing Week - our work with BHA Leeds Skyline

National HIV Testing Week (NHTW) took place from 22 - 29 November 2013 and CaSH got involved by holding a series of free testing sessions at two of our clinics.

The main aims of the week were to:

• raise further awareness of the importance of HIV testing
• increase the proportion of people who are aware of their HIV status
• reduce the late diagnosis of HIV by increasing and improving access to free confidential and voluntary testing both during NHTW and in the future

The national HIV prevalence rate is increasing, and in 2011 Leeds reached a HIV prevalence rate of 2.14 per 1,000 population which is the highest in the Yorkshire and Humber region. Men who have sex with men (MSM) and people from the Black African community are most risk.

As part of the ‘It starts with me campaign’, we worked in partnership with the Centre for Sexual Health, Yorkshire MESMAC and BHA Leeds Skyline to provide HIV point of care testing at two of our community cash clinics, The Reginald Centre in Chapeltown and Burmantofts Health Centre.

The sessions were well attended and received positive feedback from clients who were pleased to be able to access testing in a community setting.

Along with BHALeeds Skyline, we have been delivering talks on HIV, Contraception and Community Gynaecology on Saturdays to women from the Cameroon, Gambia and other African Communities and also to women from PAFRAS (Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum seekers).

Later this month we will be speaking to women from the Somalian Community about Female Genital Mutilation and women’s health and HIV.

Guest Blogger: Kim Taylor (Team Coordinator, Contraceptive and Sexual Health Service)


2 comments:

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