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Annual Conference 2016

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Thank you for attending the BASHH Conference 2016.

The next annual conference will be held 18th-20th June 2017 at the Europa Conference & Exhibition Centre, Belfast.

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Conference Presentations

Digital sex and the city: prevalent use of dating apps amongst heterosexual attendees of genito-urinary medicine (GUM) clinics

     Malika Mohabeer Hart
     Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

Rates of asymptomatic lymphogranuloma venereum in men who have sex with men

     Tristan Griffiths

     Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

Saliva use as a lubricant for anal sex is a risk factor for rectal gonorrhoea among men who have sex with men, a new public health message: a cross-sectional survey

     David M Lee

     Melbourne

Inhibitory effect of an antiseptic mouthwash against Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the pharynx (GONE) among men who have sex with men: a randomised control trial

     Sandra Walker

     Melbourne

Self-taken extra-genital samples compared with clinician-taken extra-genital samples for the diagnosis of gonorrhoea and chlamydia in women and MSM

     Janet Wilson

     The Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Is a short course of azithromycin effective in the treatment of mild to moderate Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)?

     Gillian Dean

     Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals

Digital health and remote consultations: views and experiences in sexual health clinic attendees

     Jake Bayley

     Barts Health

Triage review: should they stay, or should they go?

     Susanna Currie

     Central Manchester University Hospitals

Evaluation of a pilot of internet requested Chlamydia test kits in 25 - 34 year olds

     Deborah Shaw

     Public Health England

Use and perceptions of the Online Chlamydia Pathway (OCP): findings from qualitative interviews among people treated for chlamydia

     Catherine Aicken

Hitting the bull’s-eye: partner notification real-time metrics

     Anatole Menon-Johansson

     SXT Health

Understanding the sexual appetites of men who have sex with men (MSM) taking part in a sexual risk reduction intervention after being prescribed post exposure prophylaxis for HIV after sexual exposure (PEPSE)

     Alex Parr

     Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Investigating attitudes towards HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis. A questionnaire study in men who have sex with men attending sexual health clinics

     Lauren Bull

Establishment of a monitoring service for men who have sex with men (MSM) taking generic co-formulated tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF)/emtricitabine (FTC) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against HIV infection

     Tara Suchak

     Chelsea and Westminster

Renal function at baseline and month 1 in the PROUD study, a pragmatic open label randomised trial of truvada as pre-exposure prophylaxis

     Iain Reeves

Chemsex related admissions to a city centre hospital

     Chris Ward

     Central Manchester University Hospitals

Community viral load: A new population-based biomarker of HIV disease burden in Scotland

     Daniela Brawley

Extra-genital samples for gonorrhoea and chlamydia in women and MSM: self-taken samples analysed separately compared with self-taken pooled samples

     Janet Wilson

     The Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Pilot study comparing self-collected vaginal swab with clinician taken vaginal swab for the detection of candida and bacterial vaginosis

     Pam Barnes

     New Croft Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne

A question of stability

     Hemanti Patel

     Public Health England

Rectal chlamydia infection in women – have we been missing the point?

     Harriet Wallace

     The Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Feasibility study to determine the time taken for NAATs tests to become negative following treatment for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae in men and women

     Binta Sultan

     Public Health England

Trichomonas vaginalis - treatment and test of cure analysis in a GUM clinic population

     Gabriella Bathgate

     Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Trust

Behavioural factors associated with HPV vaccine acceptability amongst men who have sex with men in the United Kingdom

     Tom Nadarzynski

     Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals

Human papillomavirus vaccination and STI screening in men who have sex with men. Clinical outcomes and factors associated with completion of a three dose schedule within one year in a clinical cohort

     John McSorley

     London North West Healthcare

Rapid fall in quadrivalent vaccine targeted human papillomavirus genotypes in heterosexual men following the Australian female HPV vaccination programme: an observational study from 2004 to 2015

     Eric Chow

     Melbourne

Low proportion of men who have sex with men (MSM) tested for hepatitis C despite high prevalence in 2 genito-urinary medicine (GUM) clinics

     Thomas Pasvol

Sexual function problems in British 16-21 year olds: cause for concern?

     Kirsten Mitchell

Sexual and reproductive health consultations in an NGO primary care facility over a nine week period

     Charline Bradshaw

     Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID), Mycoplasma genitalium and macrolide resistance in England

     Rachel Pitt

     Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals

Implementing a test and treat pathway for Mycoplasma genitalium in men with urethritis attending a GUM clinic

     John Reynolds-Wright

     Brighton & Hove Sexual Health & Contraception Service

A qPCR assay that simultaneously detects Mycoplasma genitalium and mutations associated with macrolide resistance has the potential to improve patient management

     Terry Sunderland

     SpeeDx

Whole genome sequencing to predict Neisseria gonorrhoeae antibiotic susceptibility: toward tailored antimicrobial therapy

    Laura Phillips

Is cefixime back? Trends in gonococcal resistance to current and previous front line therapies in England and Wales since the 2011 guideline change

     Hikaru Bolt

     Public Health England

An outbreak of high level azithromycin resistant gonorrhoea in a UK city - Actions taken by the clinical team and lessons learnt

     Jane Brown

     The Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Predicting STI risk among people attending sexual health services: Development of a triage tool for targeting behavioural interventions among young people

     Carina King

     Public Health England

The National HIV self-sampling service

     Luis Guerra

     Public Health England

Role of primary care in the diagnosis of STIs in England

     Emma Beaumont

     Public Health England

A partner notification bureau in action: outcomes for centralised management of positive gonorrhoea and chlamydia results from primary care by a sexual health service

     Gill Bell

Are We Meeting the Needs of Young People?

     Justin Orme

     Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals

What effect do practice visits have upon opportunistic chlamydia screening test uptake and case detection in primary care? An audit of 81 general practices in Oxfordshire

     Omotayo Adebanji

     Oxford University Hospitals

Partnership working to achieve successful health board-wide Hepatitis B partner notification outcomes

Sam King

     Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Digital Ano-Rectal Examination (DARE) as anal cancer screening in HIV positive men who have sex with men (HMSM) - is it acceptable to patients?

     Tamara Lewis

     University of Southampton

Grindr© use by men who have sex with men (MSM) is associated with high rates of bacterial sexually transmitted infections

     Samuel Owen

     Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals

Are geosocial networking (GSN) apps associated with increased risk of STIs & HIV: A systematic review

     Matheus Almeida

     Barts and The London School of Medicine & Dentistry

Non-specific urethritis: can we be a little more specific?

     Genevieve Hirst

     Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals

SH:24 - User perspectives on an online sexual health testing service

     Harriet Pittaway

Confidentiality and GP disclosure in GUM clinics

     Qiang Lu

     University of Southampton

 

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Posters

Undergraduate Prizes

  1. UG1 - Digital Ano-Rectal Examination (DARE) as anal cancer screening in HIV positive Men who have Sex with Men (HMSM) – is it acceptable to patients?
    • Tamara Lewis, Selvavelu Samraj, Raj Patel, Sangeetha Sundaram
    • School of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, Dept. of Sexual Health, Solent NHS Trust, Royal South Hants Hospital, Southampton, UK
  2. UG5: SH:24 - User perspectives on an online sexual health service.
    • Harriet Pittaway, Sharmani Barnard, Emma Wilson, Paula Baraitser

    • King's Centre for Global Health, King's College London, London, UK, Department of Population Health, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

 

Poster Prizes

  1. P38 - HIV home/self-testing: a pilot project and service evaluation
    • William Gibson, Rachel Challenor, Zoe Warwick
    • Genitourinary Medicine Department, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK
  2. P73 - If HIV-PrEP is made available in England, what are the resource implications for GUM clinic service providers
    • Koh Jun Ong, Nigel Field, Holly Mitchell, Sarika Desai, O Noel Gill
    • Public Health England, London, UK
  3. P121 - Prospective comparison of charcoal swabs versus near-patient direct culture plate inoculation for the culture of gonorrhoea in high-risk patients.
    • Annabelle Harrison, Hannah Cheney-Lowe, John McSorley, Siobhan Murphy, Gary Brook
    • Central Middlesex Hospital, London, UK, Imperial College Medical School, London, UK
  4. P176 - Are sexually transmitted infections associated with child sexual exploitation in under 16 year olds attending Genitourinary Medicine clinics in the UK?
    • Chris Ward, Gwenda Hughes, Holly Mitchell, Karen Rogstad
    • Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK, Public Health England, London, UK, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK
  5. P226 - Reattendance, retesting and test positivity among patients initially treated for chlamydia or gonorrhoea in a large inner city clinic.
    • Sarah Bradley, John Saunders, Eva Jungmann
    • Mortimer Market Centre, CNWL, London, UK
  6. P247 - Can text messages increase safer sex behaviours in young people: intervention development and pilot randomised controlled trial.
    • Caroline Free, Ona McCarthy, Paula Baraitser, Rebecca French, Kaye Wellings, Karen Devries, Sujit Rathod, Susan Michie, Graham Hart, Julia Bailey

    • LSHTM, London, UK, UCL, London, UK, Kings College Hospital, London, UK

 

Clinical Cases Prizes

  1. CC6 - Warnings are not enough - A case series of ritonavir induced Cushing’s Syndrome and adreno-cortical failure.
    • Isabel Reicher, Daniel Richardson, Deborah Williams
    • Brighton & Sussex medical School, Brighton, UK Brighton & Sussex University NHS hospitals trust, Brighton, UK,
  2. CC4 - Ocular syphilis on the rise: a case series
    • Clare Wood, Jane Wells, Nick Jones, Ashish Sukthankar

    • Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester, UK

 

Oral Prizes

  1. O021 - A Question of Stability
    • Hemanti Patel, Gabriel Schembri, Binta Sultan, Catherine Ison
    • Public Health England, London; Manchester centre for sexual health, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation trust, Manchester; Mortimer Market Centre, London; Bacterial special interest group
  2. O032 - Implementing a test and treat pathway for Mycoplasma genitalium in men with urethritis attending a GUM clinic
    • John Reynolds-Wright, Fabienne Verrall, Mohammed Hassan-Ibrahim, Suneeta Soni

    • Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, UK

 

Cathy Harman Prize

Dr John McSorley, Central Middlesex Hospital, London, UK.

 

 

Annual Conference 2016

Thank you for attending the BASHH Conference 2016.

The next annual conference will be held 18th-20th June 2017 at the Europa Conference & Exhibition Centre, Belfast.