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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
The Field Guide: applying Making it Count to health promotion activity with homosexually active men
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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
Grievous harm: use of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 for sexual transmission of HIV
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Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Testing targets: findings from the United Kingdom Gay Men’s Sex Survey 2007
Full text linkDuration: April 1993 - June 2012
In 1993, Sigma Research carried out an on-the-spot survey of men attending the London Lesbian and Gay Pride festival, instigating an annual survey that has grown to be the largest in the world and an institution on the UK summer gay scene. The National Gay Men’s Sex Survey (GMSS), also known as Vital Statistics, now recruits men via booklets and online. To find out more about the history of GMSS, the methods used, collaborators, questionnaires and all the outputs associated with it go to our specific GMSS website.
The content of the survey is developed in collaboration with health promoters, within the framework of Making it Count. The questions cover a range of demographics, health indicators, sexual behaviours, HIV prevention needs, use of settings in which health promotion can occur and recognition of national interventions. The weight given to each area varies each year, and the data collected is treated as cumulative, building a detailed picture of gay men and bisexual men and HIV over time.
Core results from the national sample are reported in the main annual survey report, published in the year following each survey. We also publish and insert into various gay press titles feedback to respondents who may have taken part.
Since 2003 detailed data reports have also been made available alongside the national reports.These reports group men by their region of residence for each country, and for English residents by their Primary Care Trust of residence within each Strategic Health Authority.
Data about the performance of national interventions appears in specific CHAPS Evaluation Reports.
Findings from the survey have also been presented at a range of national and international conferences and in Journal articles
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