Nice quote from Virginia Mzunzu (Full time Health Promotion student, 2015 entry) of being awarded scholarship to study health promotion. https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/the-hub/Pages/Celebrating-success,-achievement-and-endeavour.aspx
Check out our new article on HIV prevention among Men who have Sex with Men in Japan, building on the European Everywhere Project.
Summary
In the UK and Japan, there is concern regarding rising rates of annual new HIV infections among Men who have Sex with Men (MSM). Whilst in the UK and Europe, gay businesses are increasingly recognized as being important settings through which to deliver HIV prevention and health promotion interventions to target vulnerable populations; in Japan such settings-based approaches are relatively underdeveloped. This article draws on qualitative data from a recently completed study conducted to explore whether it is feasible, acceptable and desirable to build on the recent European Everywhere project for adaptation and implementation in Japan. A series of expert workshops were conducted in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka with intersectoral representatives from Japanese and UK non-governmental organizations (NGOs), gay businesses, universities and gay communities (n = 46). Further discussion groups and meetings were held with NGO members and researchers from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare’s Research Group on HIV Prevention Policy, Programme Implementation and Evaluation among MSM (n = 34). The results showed that it is desirable, feasible and acceptable to adapt and implement a Japanese version of Everywhere. Such a practical, policy-relevant, settings-based HIV prevention framework for gay businesses may help to facilitate the necessary scale up of prevention responses among MSM in Japan. Given the high degree of sexual mobility between countries in Asia, there is considerable potential for the Everywhere Project (or its Japanese variant) to be expanded and adapted to other countries within the Asia-Pacific region.
For the full paper, see here: http://heapro.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/11/11/heapro.dav096.abstract
date for your diary.
A new article published in The Conversation, drawing on the Everywhere Project and SIALON II European HIV projects.
https://theconversation.com/making-gay-business-the-frontline-in-the-fight-against-hiv-36450
The findings of a recently completed project on engaging with young people to inform health improvement commissioning in East Sussex, have now been released. Two versions of the reports are available, one full report and a shorter more accessible summary report designed specifically for the young people who took part. For copies of the report see the link:
ESCC_Accessible Summary_Nov 15
Project web page is here: https://www.brighton.ac.uk/healthresearch/research-projects/health-improvement-commissioning.aspx
