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Tackling HIV Testing:
increasing detection and diagnosis
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About this pack
Contents
Permission to use pack materials
Evaluation form
For more information about the pack
Around 80,000 people in the UK are now living
with HIV and the number increases each year. While those diagnosed
early can receive life-saving treatment, late diagnosis is
the factor most commonly associated with HIV-related death.
Non-HIV specialist clinicians have a vital role to play in
improving rates of diagnosis earlier in the course of infection.
Over a quarter of those infected with HIV are still undiagnosed.
The UK national guidelines for HIV testing 2008 call for increased
routine HIV testing in medical settings other than GUM and
Infectious Diseases.
This resource pack has been produced by the
Medical Foundation for AIDS & Sexual Health (MedFASH),
with funding from the Department of Health, to support HIV
specialists in helping their secondary care colleagues in
other specialties to offer HIV testing more routinely in their
daily practice.
The materials in the pack have developed with
the active involvement of the Tackling HIV Testing Project
Advisory Group, comprising leading experts in the field of
HIV and sexual health, general medicine, other important specialties
and public health, plus representatives of patient organisations
(click here for a full list of contributors).
The pack includes:
- template documents to assist in the development
of a hospital-wide policy on HIV testing such as a protocol
for HIV testing adults, patient information and other useful
resources for staff and patients
- slide sets for use in grand rounds and
educational meetings
- HIV for non-HIV specialists: diagnosing
the undiagnosed, a practical guide for healthcare professionals
in secondary care, which includes the UK national guidelines
for HIV testing 2008
Acknowledgements
Foreword
by Dr Mary Armitage, Immediate Past Clinical Vice-President
of the Royal College of Physicians and Chair of the MedFASH
Tackling HIV Testing Project Advisory Group
1.
Why tackle HIV testing?
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What is this resource pack?
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Who is this resource pack for?
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How to use this resource pack
5.
Notes on the template documents
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Notes on the slide sets
7.
Pack evaluation form
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Sources of useful information
9.
Tackling undiagnosed HIV infection, Chief Medical Officer
letter to the Presidents of medical Royal Colleges and Faculties,
21 September 2009
10.
Project Advisory Group members
Booklet
HIV for non-HIV specialists: diagnosing the undiagnosed
link to file containing the BASHH/BHIVA/BIS UK national guidelines
for HIV testing 2008
Template
documents for use in secondary healthcare settings
These are for use within hospital trusts and can be made available
via the trust intranet. They can be used as they are, or adapted
to suit the particular needs of a hospital department.
Presentation
slide sets
Each slide set comprises about 20 slides designed for use
by physicians, probably from HIV, Genitourinary Medicine or
Infectious Diseases, who provide training to colleagues in
other departments. They can be used as the basis of presentations
to grand rounds, specialty rounds and similar educational
meetings and can be combined and adapted to fit the context,
time available and presenter's message if required.
| Permission
to use pack materials |
All materials in the pack are copyright MedFASH
2009 but may be freely reproduced for the purpose of ensuring
quality of care. The UK national guidelines for HIV testing
2008 are copyright BHIVA 2008 and are reproduced with permission.
Please ensure they are acknowledged
appropriately in any materials produced using this pack.
| Evaluating
the resource pack |
Comments about this resource pack are welcome
and will inform any updated versions of the resources. You
can download the evaluation form by clicking here.
If you use the materials please complete the form and send
it to MedFASH at the following address:
Medical Foundation for AIDS & Sexual Health
BMA House
Tavistock Square
London WC1H 9JP
United Kingdom
Alternatively, you can complete it electronically and email
it to enquiries@medfash.bma.org.uk
If you would like more information on the
resource pack please contact Russell Fleet, Project Manager,
by email at rfleet@medfash.bma.org.uk or by phone on 020 7383
6801.
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