Health Volunteers needed at Lunch Positive Lunch Positive, the HIV charity is looking for volunteers to help provide the Friday lunch club for people with HIV. The lunch club provides a safe and supportive space for people to share lunch, make friendships and find peer support. Volunteers are needed to help on Friday afternoons in the dining By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Lord Fowler to make exclusive appearance at Prowler Soho Lord Fowler will appear at Prowler Soho, 5-7 Brewer Street, London, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday, August 28 to promote his new book, AIDS: Don’t Die of Prejudice. Norman Fowler (Lord Fowler since 2001), author of the book AIDS: Don’t Die of Prejudice, has recently returned from the Internationa By Besi • 2 min read
General News September 10: World Suicide Prevention Day Chief Constable of Sussex Police Giles York to speak at Grassroots Suicide Prevention event on September 10. The event to mark World Suicide Prevention Day will be staged at The Brighthelm Centre starting from 9.30am. Order of events: 9.30 am – 1.00 pm: Free suicide alertness training for community By Besi • 2 min read
General News FOI reveals thousands face long waits in ambulances outside of A&E Thousands of patients across the South East were caught in queues of ambulances outside of A&E last year. Some patients waited over four hours to be admitted with over 39,500 patients in ambulances waited too long to enter A&E in the South East last year. A Freedom of Information request by the Labo By Besi • 2 min read
General News Launch event for people with eating disorders The Brighton and Hove Eating Disorders Peer Support Service (BHEDS Peer 2 Peer) will be holding a launch event on October 7, from 2.30 to 4 p.m. at Community Base in Central Brighton. BHEDS Peer 2 Peer is a partnership including Men Get Eating Disorders Too, As You Are Centre, Brighton and Hove Care By Besi • 3 min read
Health ME conference planned for October The Sussex ME Society in partnership with national charity Action for ME will be holding a medical conference at Hove Town Hall on October 7. Caroline Lucas MP for Brighton Pavilion, will be opening the event and main speakers will include Dr Gabrielle Murphy, lead clinician of the ME service at Lon By Besi • 1 min read
Health Green MP calls for renewed push against ‘unscientific’ discriminatory blood donor rules This Brighton Pride weekend, Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, will call for a ban on discrimination preventing gay men from giving blood. Caroline, who will be attending the annual festival on Saturday, said: “I am incredibly proud to be an MP for a city that is known for being on By Besi • 2 min read
General News World Hepatitis Day: Progess made on Hep C, but much more to do New figures from Public Health England (PHE) reveal hospital admissions, liver transplants and deaths from hepatitis C (HCV) have all risen in the UK. Hospital admissions from hepatitis C-related end stage liver disease have risen from 608 in 1998 to 2,390 in 2012, while deaths have risen from 98 in By Besi • 4 min read
Features & Longread Anorexia, bulimia and eating disorder treatment for men Laura Chapman highlights the best treatment available for men with eating disorders. Eating disorders in men aren’t often spoken about as such disorders are widely seen as a female problem. However, a third of those who do suffer from eating disorders are male and the mentality that they shouldn’t s By Contributor • 4 min read
Health Brighton Pavilion MP pushes for a Gender Identity Clinic in Brighton Caroline Lucas, MP posed two written Parliamentary questions last week about the provision of Gender Identity Clinics in the UK. She asked the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on: • The current waiting time following referral for a first appointment at Charing Cro By Besi • 2 min read
Health ‘Time to Change’ starts conversations about mental health The topic of mental health will be on the agenda at various Pride events this summer. Time to Change, England’s biggest programme to challenge mental health stigma and discrimination have already visited Blackpool Pride and Bristol Pride last weekend to get the conversation started about mental heal By Besi • 2 min read
Health GMFA seek full time health campaigns and website manager Are you passionate about improving gay men’s health? Do you have the imagination to develop campaigns that will engage a wide variety of gay men, helping to prevent ongoing HIV infection? Are you smart with technology and up to date with media and social media? Do you have the wit, the will and the By Besi • 1 min read
