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A Practice and Policy Agenda for HIV and Learning Difficulties
Author(s) -
Cambridge Paul
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
british journal of learning disabilities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.633
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-3156
pISSN - 1354-4187
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3156.1994.tb00136.x
Subject(s) - general partnership , public relations , promotion (chess) , learning disability , health promotion , sociology , psychology , public health , political science , medicine , nursing , politics , law , psychiatry
The aim of this paper is to review how issues around HIV and learning difficulties come together to present a challenge for health promotion/HIV prevention and services for people with learning difficulties. This review will also identify the key practice issues which services for people with learning difficulties need to address in relation to HIV and offer a model for developing policy and resources for carrying forward work in this area. The information and arguments presented in this paper are my personal interpretations based on the experiences and issues generated by two areas of work. The first is a series of learning sets organised for South East Thames Regional Health Authority (SETRHA) on HIV and HEP B and services for people with learning difficulties. These were open to managers and staff working in learning difficulty services across agencies and sectors, and have recently been completed. (1) SETRHA Learning Sets. Organised by Paul Cambridge and Hilary Brown at The Tizard Centre. Inputs involved SE London Health Promotion Service (James Nichol) and the Sex Education Team (David Thompson). The second is a needs assessment exercise funded by South East London Health Authority (SELHA), covering the special and ordinary needs of men with learning difficulties who have sex with men in public places. (2) SELHA Needs Assessment Exercise. The steering group developed and conducted the study and included Paul Cambridge (Tizard Centre), Simon Davies (Southside Partnership), James Nichol (SELHPS) and David Thompson (Sex Education Team).