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Mobile phone messaging to promote uptake of HIV testing among migrant African communities in the UK (2018)
Journal Article
Evans, C., Suggs, L. S., Turner, K., Occa, A., Juma, A., & Blake, H. (2018). Mobile phone messaging to promote uptake of HIV testing among migrant African communities in the UK. Health Education Journal, https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896918785928

Background: In the UK, African communities are a focus of public health efforts to increase uptake of HIV testing. Mobile phone interventions may be an innovative way of reaching migrant groups who are known to face multiple obstacles in accessing ma... Read More about Mobile phone messaging to promote uptake of HIV testing among migrant African communities in the UK.

Employers' views of the 'Healthy Hub Roadshow': a workplace HIV testing intervention in England (2018)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Hussain, B., Hand, J., Juma, A., & Evans, C. (2018). Employers' views of the 'Healthy Hub Roadshow': a workplace HIV testing intervention in England. AIDS Care, 31(2), 181-185. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2018.1500010

We explored employer uptake and perceptions of workplace HIV testing delivered to employees as part of Healthy Hub Roadshow, a multi-component general health check. Intervention included health checks with tailored advice delivered to 776 employees a... Read More about Employers' views of the 'Healthy Hub Roadshow': a workplace HIV testing intervention in England.

Employer attitudes towards general health checks and HIV testing in the workplace (2018)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Banerjee, A., & Evans, C. (2018). Employer attitudes towards general health checks and HIV testing in the workplace. Public Health, 156, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2017.12.004

Objective: There is a need to increase HIV testing rates in the UK. One approach is to increase access to testing through general health checks (GHCs) in the workplace. However, it is unclear whether GHCs are routinely offered by organisations, and e... Read More about Employer attitudes towards general health checks and HIV testing in the workplace.