Common Ambition Bristol CAB - Common Ambition Bristol involves African & Caribbean heritage communities co-producing ways to ⬇️ #HIV stigma & ⬆️ testing

Findings presented at #BHIVA24
➡️Co-production process - P124
➡️Outreach - O18 Temilola + Dr Fiona Fox
➡️Info arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/research/proje…

Nitazenes, dangerous synthetic opioids, were found in multiple samples of heroin bought in Bristol today.

⚠️ Please share this urgent drug alert to people who use drugs ⚠️

If you’re Bristol based, get in touch with us for Naloxone, OST or advice around your drug use

🚨 Job alert 🚨
We're recruiting a study coordinator to work on our evaluation of #HIV opt-out testing in emergency departments

Come and work with our lovely NIHR HPRU in Behavioural Science and Evaluation team at
Health Sciences at the University of Bristol/University of Bristol

⏰ Deadline 25th April
➡️jobs.ac.uk/job/DHB797/stu…

✍️Grateful to Liver International for publishing our SR exploring targeted liver fibrosis assessment for people at the highest risk of alcohol related liver disease

❤️‍🩹There is huge unmet need both in service and research in this area riddled with health inequality

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

📰News story!📰Community pharmacies could dispense pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for #HIV . The benefits of using pharmacies include taking advantage of pre-existing pathways/services, as well as accessibility of locations & opening hours.
Read more➡️bit.ly/3vrOkid

Vending machines could improve access to #SexualHealth testing for #HIV / sexually transmitted infections. Users in Brighton + #Bristol found machines convenient + easy to use + accessible! Paper published in STI_BMJ

News tinyurl.com/yft2ddwu
Paper tinyurl.com/3snm5ufs

🎉 Drug checking is coming to Bristol. 🎉

Launching on Saturday 27th January, a regular drug checking service is coming to Bristol.

This first-of-its-kind service will run on the last Saturday of every month and is in partnership with BDP | Bristol Drugs Project & Bristol City Council.

📢 Great opportunity to work for Brigstowe & join our Common Ambition #Bristol team ⬇️

The project is working in partnership with people of African and Caribbean heritage to encourage people to test for #HIV , be in control of their sexual health & reduce HIV stigma

On Friday we published a comment in The Lancet Public Health (authors from Faculty of Public Health, NPSAD, Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH)) adding to the chorus of voices highlighting concerns about the proliferation of nitazenes in the UK drug market - thelancet.com/journals/lanpu… (1/35).

Pleased to have worked on this BMJ editorial with the excellent Tommy Brothers, Dan Lewer, Olivia Maynard and Mat Southwell - bmj.com/content/384/bm…

Working with The Hepatitis C Trust on early ideas around pharmacy based health checks for people who use drugs. Looking to hear thoughts of ppl who have used pharmacy NSP/OST, community pharmacists and GPs. Reimbursement for time. Please DM if interested. Thx.

Our SHIPSexualHealth team has been making the case for opt-out HIV testing in Bristol, so this is a great outcome from the UK Health Security Agency NIHR HPRU in Behavioural Science and Evaluation University of Bristol evaluation inc. Jeremy Horwood Tom May Siobhán Allison🙌

#WorldAIDSDay2023 Fast-Track Cities

bit.ly/3R06tKZ

#PrEP is a game changer in preventing #HIV , but as it's only available via sexual health clinics, it's not accessible

Thanks Will Nutland for highlighting our PrEP pharmacy deliver review of research medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

👀 NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West pharmacy PrEP project arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/research/proje…

Fantastic that opt-out #HIV , hepatitis C ( #HCV ) & B ( #HBV ) testing in emergency departments is being expanded so more people are diagnosed & linked to care

Read our NIHR HPRU in Behavioural Science and Evaluation/UK Health Security Agency report evaluating the first 12 months of the programme
gov.uk/government/pub… Tom May

🎉Great to see our work with UK Health Security Agency in the news! 🎉Read our recent news story here➡️bit.ly/3SFfECL

‘Alright My Liver?’ Annie Archer 💙 outlining how important proactive outreach and relatability are for tackling health inequalities We are NIHR #InclusivityUnleashed SWAG Cancer Alliance (CA)

Great to be back in Leeds for #UKHSA2023 conference with NIHR HPRU in Behavioural Science and Evaluation team!