Tag: BASHH

  • Saving Lives joins calls for a national sexual health strategy

    Charities, including the British Association for Sexual Health & HIV (BASHH) and the Terrence Higgins Trust, have called on the Government to implement a new sexual health strategy to combat rising rates of STIs in England. A new report from the Terrence Higgins Trust and BASHH has detailed the challenges facing the sexual health &…

  • Social Media as a Health Promotion tool

    Social media is a potentially useful tool in raising awareness about important health issues. Campaigns such as HIV Testing Week ((HTW) 18-24 Nov 2017) generate thousands of tweets by organisations and individuals, with onward sharing potentially reaching many times more people.  We set out to describe the overall tweeting activity before and during HTW, we…