{"id":30041,"date":"2016-06-01T09:24:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T09:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=30041"},"modified":"2016-06-07T17:03:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T17:03:29","slug":"increasing-demand-for-community-treatment-information-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/30041","title":{"rendered":"Increasing demand for community treatment information services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/bhiva-manchester-2016.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30037\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/bhiva-manchester-2016.png\" alt=\"BHIVA Manchester 2016\" width=\"207\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a>Gareth Hardy, HIV i-Base<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The treatment information services provided by HIV i-Base and their use over the last year, were covered in a presentation Robin Jakob.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>i-Base aims to enable HIV positive people to take an active role in their health care by providing up to date information, in non-technical language, using various formats.<\/p>\n<p>Jakob reviewed the ways in which HIV positive people can contact i-Base with specific treatment and health related questions. These include a free-to-call phone line, an email service and an online Q&amp;A forum on the i-Base website. Comments on this forum by other users are also answered individually.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, from 2014-2015 there has been a substantial increase in the demand for these services. Over the last year, use\u00a0across all services rose by 30%, with email enquiries increasing by 52% and phone line enquiries increasing by 22%.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of enquiries were from men, who made of 82% of enquiries. Enquiries from the London area made up 60%. There was an even distribution of age range (mainly between 30 and 60 years old) among those using the services. The vast majority of enquiries, 98%, were from HIV positive people calling for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest proportion of calls were in relation to side effects, 17%, followed by concerns about transmission, 13%, and then treatment access, 12%. Enquiries by phone often included secondary topics.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation emphasised the adaptability of the services provided by i-Base for new and rapidly changing topics of concern from callers. This was underscored by the number of calls i-Base has taken regarding PrEP. In summary these numbers demonstrate the continued need for community treatment support services, such as i-Base.<\/p>\n<p>Reference:<\/p>\n<p>Jakob R et al. HIV treatment information and advocacy 2014\/15: continued demand for community support services. 22nd Annual BHIVA Conference, 19-22 April 2016, Manchester. Oral abstract 05.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhiva.org\/documents\/Conferences\/2016Manchester\/Presentations\/160420\/RobinJakob.pdf\">http:\/\/www.bhiva.org\/documents\/Conferences\/2016Manchester\/Presentations\/160420\/RobinJakob.pdf<\/a>\u00a0(PDF slides)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhiva.org\/160420RobinJakob.aspx\">http:\/\/www.bhiva.org\/160420RobinJakob.aspx<\/a>\u00a0(webcast)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth Hardy, HIV i-Base The treatment information services provided by HIV i-Base and their use over the last year, were covered in a presentation Robin Jakob. i-Base aims to enable HIV positive people to take an active role in their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[223],"class_list":["post-30041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference-reports","tag-bhiva-22nd-manchester-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}