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Read moreFacing the facts: lesbian and bisexual women’s vulnerability to HIV
Felicity Daly DrPH and Sophie Strachan The sexual health concerns of lesbians and bisexual women have often been invisible although studies conducted around the world show that lesbians and bisexual […]
Read moreTransphobic ‘Honour’-Based Abuse: A Conceptual Tool
Michaela Rogers University of Salford, UK Abstract This article proposes that an understanding of transphobic ‘honour’-based abuse can be employed as a conceptual tool to explore trans people’s experiences of […]
Read more“How can you be positive? Aren’t you a lesbian?”
Were the first jokey words my HIV consultant said to me. In “jest”. He actually didn’t know he had hit a nail on the head, I was HIV positive and […]
Read moreIntroduction to our LGBT History Month newsletter
February is LGBT history month, and so an important time to reflect on how HIV impacts on lesbian, bisexual and trans women. In this edition of the Sophia Forum newsletter, […]
Read more10th Anniversary: Wising Up, Women, Violence and HIV in the UK
On November 25 2015, the United Nations day on Elimination of Violence Against Women which marks the beginning of 16 days of action against gender-based violence, Sophia Forum celebrated our […]
Read moreTariq, S., Elford, J., Cortina-borja, M., & Tookey, P. A. (2012). ‘The association between ethnicity and late presentation to antenatal care among pregnant women living with HIV in the UK and Ireland’, AIDS Care, 24(8), pp. 978-985.
UK and Ireland guidelines state that all pregnant women should have their first antenatal care appointment by 13 weeks of pregnancy. This study presents the results of an analysis looking […]
Read moreSherr, L., Clucas, C., Lampe, F., Harding, R., Fisher, M., Anderson, J., Clucas, C. (2012). ‘Gender and Mental Health Aspects of Living with HIV Disease and Its Longer-Term Outcomes for UK Heterosexual Patients’. Women & Health, 52(3), pp. 214-233.
Gender is important in the experience of illness generally and HIV specifically. In this study the authors compare the experiences of 183 HIV positive women with 76 HIV positive heterosexual […]
Read moreSamuel, M., Welch, J., Tenant-Flowers, M., Poulton, M., Campbell, L., & Taylor, C. (2014). ‘Care of HIV-positive women aged 50 and over – can we do better?’. International Journal of STD & AIDS, 25(4), pp. 303–305.
This study presents findings from a sample of 123 HIV-positive women aged 50 years and over. It showed high rates (71%) of late diagnosis wherein CD4 count was <350, significant […]
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