PRESENTATIONS FROM THIS YEARS CONFERENCE
- The Practitioner Route to the UK Public Health Register
- Provider Notification Audit – Implications for Practice
- Partner notification for chlamydia by postal kit: pilot study results….

This award will develop the student’s knowledge and understanding of the theory and practice of sexual health advising through a programme of self directed study. The award can also be taken as part of the Specialist Practice Award in Public Health (Health Advising) an NMC registrable qualification.

This module has been designed in response to exciting developments that have raised the profile of sexual health on the political and health care agenda. This is a vital time for health care professionals to consider and plan the future of sexual health care provision, particularly health advisers, who can respond to the challenges presented by developing and expanding their current role. The module aims to enhance effective and innovative practice.

Patients’ psychosocial needs, medical interventions and legal policy may all change in the months and years following an HIV positive diagnosis. The WeSSI has been developed to set standards in Health Advising by addressing these needs and changes in an ongoing and structured manner.

This one-day national conference was scheduled for World AIDS Day on 1 December 2010 and was organised by the British HIV Association (BHIVA), British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH), Department of Health, Health Protection Agency, Royal College of Physicians, Children’s HIV Association (CHIVA), HIV Pharmacy Association (HIVPA) and National HIV Nurse’s Association (NHIVNA).

The Government’s Sexual Health and HIV Strategy (2001) highlighted that Sexual Health Advisers are an important group “who have a pivotal role in partner management, information provision, and liaison between community sexual health provision and GUM services.” The strategy highlighted the need to better define the roles and responsibilities of health advisers, including the development of a health advising qualification. Health Advisers also have a key role in implementation of NICE guidance “One to one interventions to reduce the transmission of sexual transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV, and to reduce the rate of under 18 conceptions, especially among vulnerable and at risk groups.

This year’s SSHA conference was held in Brighton on the weekend of September 11th. Click here to download the programme and presentations.

Stigma and Sexually Transmitted Infections: Are attitudes towards people with sexually transmitted infections as punitive as they are perceived to be?

A complete round-up of recent research topics that all Sexual Health Advisers should have read

 A Principal will be appointed with the same essential qualifications and previous knowledge/ relevant experience as a senior health adviser but will also have: