Gender & Sexual Minorities (GSM)
Gender & Sexual Minorities (GSM)
The SIG will promote:
- Promote the sexual health of GSM within BASHH and at a wider strategic/policy level
- Prioritise prevention of STI/HIV and other related adverse health outcomes in GSM
- Collaborate with community organisations to promote sexual health of GSM
- Contribute to the surveillance of STIs relating to GSM
- Assist the monitoring and evaluation of prevention initiatives/interventions for GSM
- Promote best practice in the prevention, diagnosis, management including partner notification of STI/HIV through development of and contribution to guidelines and standards
- Identify gaps and define research priorities for the sexual health of GSM
- Provide education through meetings and via other media
- Promote access to information, advice, prevention, treatment and care relating to sexual health for GSM
- Contribute to undergraduate and post-graduate curricula development
Events
BASHH GSM-SIG Presents: MSM from Seven to Seventy - School, Spirituality & Sex
Date: 3rd November 2017
Time: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: Aston University Conference Centre, Conference Room 1, Aston St., Birmingham, B4 7ET
Programme
Presentations
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1. An Update on the current HIV & STI data amongst MSM in the UK
Sarika Desai
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2. Islamic, Hindu and Sikh perspectives on homosexuality and their impact on identity, wellbeing and risk taking for MSM of religious faith
Dr. Rusi Jaspal
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3. Whose job is it anyway? The experience of engaging Jewish communities in LGBT+ inclusion
Dr. Ben Ellis
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4. Can you be religious and sexual?
Rev. Simon Buckley & Remziye Kunlelaki
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5. HPV Vaccination in MSM
Dr. Tom Nadarzynski
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6. Death, dying and HIV in the UK: Changing narratives over the decades
Prof Damien Ridge