Changing Attitudes, Changing Actions Learning from CHAPS in England

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Changing Attitudes, Changing ActionsLearning
from CHAPS in England

• Nick Partridge
• Terrence Higgins Trust

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Changing attitudes, changing actions

• 1994 Conservative government
• National gay mens HIV prevention campaigns
  delivered by a government health agency (HEA)
• Conservative Ministers of Health continually
  asked about promoting homosexuality and
  obscenity
• Fragmented local, community-based work

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Changing attitudes, changing actions

• Civil servants needed to distance Ministers from
  gay campaigns
• THT determined to increase scope and scale of gay
  mens HIV prevention work
• Joint Department of Health and THT Secretariat
  for An Evolving Strategy

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Changing attitudes, changing actions

• Key point from An Evolving Strategy
• Vulnerable groups requiring targeted health
  promotion are gay men (in particular young gay
  men), bisexuals and other men who have sex with
  men, injecting drug users, men and women who
  travel to or have links with high-prevalence
  countries (presently those in sub-Saharan
  Africa), and women partners of men in these
  groups.
• November 1995

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Changing attitudes, changing actions

• Implementation of An Evolving Strategy
• Community-based and self-help voluntary
  organisations are well placed to develop targeted
  health promotion work. Some of this work, safer
  sex initiatives for example, may be better
  undertaken by these groups rather than by the
  Government or its agencies.
• November 1995

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Changing attitudes, changing actions

• CHAPS created in 1996
• Department of Health funded 1.2m (US 2.3m)
• The current CHAPS partners are
• GMFA,
• Lesbian and Gay Foundation - Manchester
• Sigma Research,
• THT Midlands, THT South, THT West
• Trade Leicester,
• Yorkshire MESMAC,
• Armistead Project Liverpool,
• Centre for HIV Sheffield,
• Eddystone Trust - Plymouth

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