Prevention: the challenge continues
Juliet BennettIndependent Nurse Advisor Happy New Year and welcome to the spring issue for 2016. We have some varied and interesting articles in our first issue of the year, looking in particular a…
Show and tell – the art of poster presentation
Juliet BennettIndependent Nurse Advisor A poster is a visual communications tool. Creating an effective poster requires planning, art, science and attention to detail. This article gives guidance o…
Writing an abstract
Linda PantonClinical Nurse Specialist, RIDU, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh The word ‘abstract’ comes from the Latin abstractum, which means a condensed form of a longer piece of writing.T…
The Dean Street Wellbeing programme: culturally tailored community engagement programmes to combat a challenging epidemic
David Stuart and Leigh Chislett56 Dean Street, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Europe’s first venereal disease (VD) clinic for men was set up in Dean Street, Soho, London in…
The HIV prevention revolution: an overview of new developments in HIV prevention in the past three years
Rebekah WebbEuropean AIDS Treatment Group This article is based on the new EATG Position Paper on HIV Prevention, published in October 2015 .In the past 3 years there have been major breakthroughs …
Halve It: working with HIV prevention policy-makers
Nathaniel Brito-AultConsultant HIV Nurse, Barts Health NHS Trust At the end of 2008 it was still apparent from HIV statistics that both late diagnosis (those diagnosed with a CD4 count <350 cell…
The correlation between violence, women and HIV: a public health perspective
Pauline JellimanClinical Lead HIV and TB Community Nursing Teams, Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust Violence is recognised as a significant public health issue, impacting on individuals, familie…
Book review: ABC of Domestic and Sexual Violence
Angelina NamibaSalamander Trust Associate Aimed at healthcare professionals, this book is a very timely guide. Particularly so because, due to the intimate nature of the relationships they have wit…