Innovative nursing practices
Liz FooteHIV Clinical Nurse Specialist, Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust Hello and welcome to the first issue of 2017. I am really excited about this issue, which is full of, what we hope are, …
Cardiovascular disease and HIV
Juliet BennettIndependent Nurse Advisor AbstractAmong the many comorbidity conditions, cardiovascular disease (CVD) has become an area of particular concern in the field of HIV. The high prevalence…
Innovation in HIV nursing: the Liverpool Community Clinic
Pauline JellimanOperational and clinical lead for TB and HIV, Liverpool Community Clinic, Liverpool AbstractThe Liverpool Community Clinic (LCC) was established to address the pressing problem of n…
HIV among people using anabolic steroids in the United Kingdom: an overview
Geoff Bates, Vivian Hope and Jim McVeighPublic Health Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool Since the mid-1980s, preventing HIV transmission among people who inject drugs (PWIDs) h…
Treatment of HIV associated lipoatrophy: more than just skin deep
Michelle Croston and Jennifer CawseyNorth Manchester General Hospital, Manchester In the late 1990s, protease inhibitors, nucleoside transcriptase inhibitors, and non-nucleoside transcriptase inhib…
Pop it up! The suitability and acceptability of community-based pop-up sexual health screening for men who have sex with men
Kevin TurnerSexual health advisor, Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Bournemouth has one of the highest rates of HIV in the UK, rising from 2.79 per 1000 in 2011 to 3.08 per 1000 in 2014,…
Continuum of care for children and adolescents within a European setting: a patient-centred approach
Ambra Righetti1,2, Loredana Nulvesu1, Lucia Taramasso1,Federica Portunato1, Piero Cai3, Giovanna Ferrandes3,Mauro Giacomini4, Barbara Giannini4, Claudio Viscoli1 andAntonio Di Biagio11Infectious Disea…