"Protect your horn" - brilliant bit of health promotion from Cordelia Chapman from Bournemouth - providing and promoting PrEP at Pride events. #BASHH2022
Frequent oral and anal shedding seen during secondary syphilis, 50% asym suggesting highly infectious stage and early detection and treatment key to stopping ongoing transmission. #BASHH2022
Hiv health anxiety not the same as generalised ‘health anxiety’: fear around social consequences of Illness rather than fear of Ill health itself, need to tailor psychological care for this #bashh2022
Discontinuation of LARC, 2 audits looking at this -43% early discontinuation rate for implant, 29% for IUS/IUD. These rates are high- feel real gap in knowledge to understand why and can we predict who will discontinue? #bashh2022
Factors that delay presentation to sexual health clinic- distance from clinic and MSW. Take home message when thinking about clinic that serves rural population @EricPFChow#BASHH2022
@ProfKevinFenton#BASHH2022 Celebrate achieving WHO HIV target in England, but now services and support is vulnerable- HIV is seen as ‘sorted’. 20% of all those living with HIV in England have detectable viral load. Still need PrEP, still need services, to push for elimination
ANCHOR study presented at #CROI2022
at thread 🧵
ANCHOR = (AN)al (C)ancer (H)SIL (O)utcomes (R)esearch
The Cervical Model :
-Anal & Cervical cancer are very similar diseases
-Both are preceded by HSIL
-Tx of Cervical HSIL is PROVEN to ⬇️ cancer