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Sexual Health In the over ForTy-fives (SHIFT) is part of the Interreg VA 2Seas programme and will run from 1 March 2019 to 30 September 2022. The 香港六合论坛’s Institute of Sport was awarded funding for the project from the European Regional Development Fund of over \u20ac4 million.<\/p>\n
SHIFT is led by the Institute of Sport together with the Department of Psychology of the Institute of Education Health and Social Sciences, and also involves partners from the UK, the Netherlands, France and Belgium. This project constitutes a demonstration of the excellent cross-disciplinary and collaborative work fostered and developed by the 香港六合论坛.<\/p>\n
Thank you all for attending our SHIFT Project Final Conference a couple of weeks ago, whether you joined us in person or online, we were really happy to have you there and we hope you enjoyed the conference.<\/p>\n
Hear from SHIFT partners and guest speakers that include:<\/p>\n
Discussions includeed:<\/p>\n
The presentations from the day are being uploaded to our website: shift-sexual-health.eu<\/a> so make sure to check back there very soon for updates.<\/p>\nWishing you all a wonderful end to 2022, Studies in\/beyond Europe (eg WHO’s Sexual Health Throughout Life) highlight the need for older people to have betteraccess to sexual health support\/care. These identify that older age groups are rarely a focus in European & domestic policies across the 2Seas area. The correlation is clear between this gap in services & the rise in Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) rates. The over-45s at risk are generally those entering new sexual relationships after a period of monogamy, often post-menopause (removing the issue of pregnancy, without thought to STIs). Our engagement with relevant services suggests lack of knowledge\/tools for health services approaching the issue and offering information\/treatment. Within this target group, partner research has shown that groups with one or more socio-economic disadvantages (homeless people\/sex workers\/non-native language speakers\/migrants) are at even greater risk of being unaware of their sexual health and unable to access the appropriate services.<\/p>\n The objective of the project is to empower people aged over 45 to participate in sexual health services & improve their sexual health & wellbeing, with an additional and specifically adapted focus on socio-economically disadvantaged groups across the 2Seas area. The empowerment will avoid assumption by using insight gathering & testing existing evidence. In co-creating a service redesign, the healthcare systems currently in place will be adapted to provide services that are properly suited to these groups. Consequently, SHIFT will improve awareness in the target groups and access to sexual health services, therefore increasing wellbeing, testing for STIs and HIV & avoidance of undiagnosed communicable STIs & HIV amongst the over 45s and socio-economically disadvantaged groups. This will lead to improving the quality of life of people aged over 45 (with specific focus on vulnerable groups) & a decrease in health inequalities.<\/p>\n The SHIFT Project Partnership includes Kent County Council, East Sussex County Council, Medway Council (all UK), and Kent Community Hospitals Trust (KCHFT) and Metro Charity (UK), SoSAIDS Charity (Netherlands), and University of Antwerp (Belgium) and Odisee University (Belgium).<\/p>\n
\nThe SHIFT Project Team\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRewatch the conference\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\tReports\n\t<\/h2>\n
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\n\t\tProject Challenge\n\t<\/h2>\n
\n\t\tAbout SHIFT\n\t<\/h3>\n
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\n\t\tOur goals\n\t<\/h3>\n
\n\t\tProject Partnership\n\t<\/h2>\n
\n\t\tMeet the Team\n\t<\/h3>\n