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Sigma Research is a social research group specialising in the social, behavioural and policy aspects of HIV and sexual health. It is part of the Faculty of Public Health and Policy at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

ARVs for prevention

The translation of efficacy to everyday effectiveness is the biggest challenge for the roll-out of ARVs for prevention. During the IAPAC summit recently, Catherine Dodds delivered a plenary talk representing the views of a collaboration of social scientists on the research agenda to inform ARV prevention research and policy. From the views of potential users and providers to policy analyses of government planning and cost effectiveness, the importance of social science is clear.
See the full text here. Listen to speech here.

African Health & Sex Survey
We have just launched the African Health & Sex Survey, a re-branded update of BASS Line to inform HIV Prevention England. Do it now!

Learn more about the survey

Chemsex in south London study
We are currently recruiting gay men who live in Lambeth, Southwark or Lewisham to focus groups on Chemsex - the next group is on Tuesday 10th December,

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London HIV Patient Survey
Available now in print or PDF, our report on the experiences of people with diagnosed HIV using NHS HIV out-patients services across London.

More about the project

Criminalisation study reports
Summary reports and videos from the launch event of a new qualitative study of provider perspectives on HIV and the criminal law.

Access reports and launch videos.

Biomedical HIV prevention
Learn about our workshop where 40 medical sociologists considered how new HIV prevention technologies might affect HIV prevention research.

Access videos of workshop

EMIS European Final Report
The final report of the pan-European EMIS survey has now been published by ECDC describing 174,000 MSM resident in 38 countries.

See all 13 EMIS journal articles