This was a wonderful piece of co-produced research to be involved in - examining the impact of our volunteering programme on our volunteers and finding out how to include people with lived experience of substance use and HCV in volunteering.
Our work would be impossible without our volunteers! 💜
Discover how we recruit and support volunteers with lived experience of hep C and substance use to help achieve the UK’s HCV elimination goals.
Read our latest report:
https://t.co/3VVKc0f7fg
#CreatingNewFutures
Please note, there have been some changes to our helpline opening hours over the next few weeks.
If you need to speak to someone about hepatitis C, you can call our helpline Monday, Tuesday or Thursday from 10.30-4.30.
We're so pleased to see the publication of this paper in the Journal of Viral Hepatitis!
It sets out the results of the hepatitis C ‘test, trace and treat’ pilot undertaken by the North East & North Cumbria ODN and our peer workers.
https://t.co/uauv6WSRwx
A new report published today by UKHSA and the University of Bristol has found that the NHSE Emergency Department Opt-Out testing Programme for bloodborne viruses has helped to diagnose thousands of people with serious infections.
Find out more: https://t.co/a7gFe8NT9P
In the UK in 2022, nearly a million children experienced destitution, a staggering threefold increase in just five years.
We are not helpless to act. It's a political choice.
It's time for political parties to tell us their plan to address destitution.
#DontIgnoreDestitution
Robert James was one of the people who campaigned for years for an investigation into what led to the infected blood scandal.
In this article for The Guardian he asks whether the inquiry led to any answers.
#infectedblood
https://t.co/fU7SaFrdo6
I was sorry to miss the launch of this much needed research on poverty and place. For anyone interested in participatory and creative methods and outputs, this research is wonderful
You can find the research report, a full gallery of maps and photographs and the animation on the newly launched project website.
Click through the link below.
https://t.co/VjBP3l514G
You can find the research report, a full gallery of maps and photographs and the animation on the newly launched project website.
Click through the link below.
https://t.co/VjBP3l514G
A few months in the making... & now finally ready: The Anti-Colonial Research Library hosts 400+ open-access articles and books, websites, YouTube videos on practical examples of Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. Use and share widely! https://t.co/vepMw82q0a
Please apply! New scholarship established by Talal Asad in honor of his late wife, Tanya Baker-Asad.
The Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship for Palestinian women pursuing PhDs in the humanities and social sciences anywhere in the world
https://t.co/9ru4tg1I3a
@4noura@shereneseikaly
Hear the powerful stories of people living with hepatitis shared at our #WorldHepatitisDay community forum 👏
👀Watch here >> https://t.co/xpavO0I7b1
#HepCantWait#NotWaiting
Working w/ @HepatitisCTrust#peer researchers w/ lived experience of hep C &/or injecting drug use has been a privilege. A big thank you to @UCL_CoPro for publishing this blog detailing lessons learned in our first year of co-producing #research together https://t.co/Lg0thWaXR0
Our new #ValueCoPro website page is now live!🥳 This research answers the question ‘What is the value of co-production?’ and gives recommendations about the practicalities of co-production and further research still needed. #coproduction Please R/T😊
https://t.co/RnYwK2EJCu
It cannot be ignored that the majority of deaths in this study were linked to continued drug use.
The government must urgently act so that people who use drugs are able to access needle and syringe provision to prevent hep C and other BBVs being passed on and to save lives.