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Bass Line 2008-09: assessing the sexual HIV prevention needs of African people in England
Full text linkDuration: January 2007 - March 2010
The Bass Line national survey of African people in England has been commissioned twice by the African HIV Policy Network on behalf of NAHIP, the National African HIV Prevention programme. NAHIP is funded by the Department of Health. The aim of the survey is to develop an evidence base of the HIV prevention needs of African adults living in England to inform national interventions and aid regional and local HIV prevention planning.
The content of the survey is developed in collaboration with NAHIP partners, within the framework of The Knowledge, The Will and The Power. Bass Line findings have been reported in a variety of news media, including Aidsmap, and have been presented at a range of conferences and meetings. Academic journal articles are currently being prepared.
The 2008-09 survey was available in English and French in booklet form and on online in English. It was promoted by over 100 agencies providing services to African people in England and more than 2500 valid surveys were analysed. A seminar series on the main findings will be undertaken in late February 2010.
Download the 2008-09 questionnaire in English or French (PDF format).
Bass Line 2008-09 final report: The final report is available free in printed or PDF format. It includes descriptions of how the survey was undertaken, those who took part, and outlines findings pertaining to sexual and HIV testing behaviours and HIV prevention need within this population. Recommendations for action are summarised at the end of each chapter.
Bass Line 2008-09 local area reports: Local area data reports are available free as PDFs. These summarise the key data for residents of each English Strategic Health Authority (SHA) and Primary Care Trusts within them.
Bass Line 2008-09 distributor reports: Collaborating agencies recruiting 20 or more people received a data report summarising the key data for the people they recruited.
The 2007 survey was available in English and French in booklet form and on the internet. It was promoted by more than 100 agencies providing services to African people in England including community websites and via links from news and entertainment websites. Ultimately, more than 4000 people took part
BASS Line 2007 Survey: assessing the sexual HIV prevention needs of African people in England
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African HIV prevention Handbook: putting The Knowledge, The Will and The Power into practice
No full textThe Field Guide: applying Making it Count to health promotion activity with homosexually active men
Full text linkMeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
Full text linkInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
What do you need? 2007-08 findings from a national survey of people with diagnosed HIV
Full text linkOver the past twenty-five years, both the needs of people with diagnosed HIV and our
understanding of them have changed dramatically. During this time there have been many
assessments of need, usually within specific geographic boundaries (such as Primary Care Trusts)
but no consistent approach to describing needs has been adopted. Most needs assessments have
been shaped by a variety of local factors, including the profile of existing services.
This study provides an insight into the needs of people with diagnosed HIV living in the UK, based
on a final sample of 1777 people. The approach taken to measuring and describing need is the same
as our previous national survey (Weatherburn et al. 2002). This approach was shaped by our earlier
qualitative studies exploring the experience of people with diagnosed HIV in the early days
of anti-HIV treatments (Anderson et al. 2000, Anderson & Weatherburn 1999, Anderson &
Weatherburn 1998).
While this study uses the same methods as our 2001-2002 survey we do not draw direct
comparisons with our previous data or discuss change over time. The limitations of self-completion
surveys using convenience samples make change comparisons hazardous. However, it is worth
noting that in any comparison with our prior data (Weatherburn et al. 2002) current levels of need
very rarely seem lower than we have previously reported.
The range and extent of medical and social care, support and information needs we present here
reveal significant challenges for service commissioners and providers. The first challenge is to avoid
drawing quick conclusions about what the patterns of need mean for service commissioning and
delivery. Needs have deliberately been separated from service use because the question of what
services are ‘needed’ cannot be answered simply by identifying the extent of personal needs. The
overall pattern of need is a useful starting point, but this pattern is complex
A telling dilemma: HIV disclosure among male (homo)sexual partners
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Outsider status: stigma and discrimination experienced by gay men and African people with HIV
Full text linkIn recent years there has been an increasing amount of international-level policy and research about the negative impact that HIV-related stigma and discrimination have on the well-being of people with HIV and on prevention (Aggleton & Parker 2002, DeBruyn 2002, Nyblade 2003, UNAIDS/WHO 2003, United Nations 2001). It is clear that stigma and discrimination relating to HIV infection are persistent problems for those who have been diagnosed. Evidence gathered in the UK demonstrates that the majority of people living with HIV report the effects of stigma and discrimination in a range of settings (see Scott 2001 for a detailed review). Sigma’s own work investigating the experiences of people living with HIV in the UK has found that just under a quarter experienced discrimination within the previous year while accessing services, social settings, and in public (Weatherburn et al. 2002). Moreover, a study focussing on African people living with HIV in the UK (Weatherburn et al. 2003) revealed that over one third had experienced problems with discrimination in the previous year. This same study revealed that just under half of African people with HIV had not revealed their diagnosis to anyone they lived with, two thirds had not told their employers and a quarter had not told their GP. There is little question that people’s concern about disclosure of their diagnosis bears a direct relationship to their concern that doing so will bring about damaging consequences.
Although the prevalence and impact of stigma and discrimination relating to HIV in the UK is clear, there is little qualitative research that explores the operation of stigma and discrimination as processes and seeks to describe the nature of the relationship between stigma, discrimination and reduced health outcomes (although see Elam, 2004). Case studies and policy reports point to the role of government policy, political leadership and social environments in either worsening or ameliorating the negative effects of stigma and discrimination (Atrill et al. 2001, Kinniburgh et al. 2001, Fortier 2003). This report presents the findings of a study which explores how stigma and discrimination contribute to reduced health and well-being for the two largest groups of people living with HIV in the UK: African migrants and Gay and Bisexual men. In order to do so, it is necessary to critically consider the ways in which stigma and discrimination are theorised and described
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