We begin the 2021 BMJ STI Podcast series with the first episode focusing on Trans and gender diverse people and health care services. We consider the question: Why do health care services need to adapt and promote provision of inclusive and non-discriminatory care independent of gender and sexual preference? In June 2020, the New Yorker […]
Category: sexual health
Why stimulant use may cause HIV progression independently of behavioural risk-factors
In many countries injection drug users (IDU) constitute a ‘key population’ for HIV/AIDS. There may in some contexts be substantial overlap with other groups – where, for example, the IDU are also sex-workers, or prisoners. In reality, IDU may be exposed to multiple risk factors, which can be hard to isolate from each other. However, […]
Sexual and reproductive health in the new migrant “jungle” camp in Calais, France– A perfect storm?
written by Fionnuala Finnerty Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Brighton fionnuala.finnerty@gmail.com The new migrant “jungle” camp in Calais, France has been described in a recent environmental health report by the University of Birmingham as a humanitarian emergency1. Due to the recent refugee crisis and tightening border controls, the camp has swollen in size to an […]