Sexual & General Health

Guides for GPs and general practice staff

References and further reading

Alcorn K (1996) AIDS Reference Manual. The first volume of the regularly updated multiple volume National AIDS Manual, Nam Publications, London.

Beardsell S (1994) Should wider testing be encouraged on the grounds of HIV prevention? AIDS Care 6 (1): 5-19.

Brown-Peterside P, Sibbald B, and Freeling P (1991) AIDS: knowledge, skills and attitudes among vocational trainees and their trainers. British Journal of General Practice, 41(35):401-405.

Browning S and Levy L (eds.) (1995) HIV/AIDS and primary care in Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham. Report of a conference held at the Royal Festival Hall, London 9 November 1995. The HIV Project, London.

Burr C (1996) A Separate Creation: How Biology Makes us Gay. Bantam Press, London.

Coxon A (1996) Between the Sheets: Sexual Diaries and Gay Men's Sex in the Era of AIDS. Cassell, London.

Curtis H, Hoolaghan T and Jewitt C (eds.,) (1995) Sexual health promotion in General Practice. Radcliffe Medical Press, Oxford.

Davies P, Hickson F, Hunt A, and Weatherburn P (1993) Sex, Gay Men and AIDS. Falmer Press, London.

de Wit J and van Griensven G (1994) Time from safer to unsafe behaviour among homosexual men, AIDS 8: 123-126.

Evans J, Bingham J, Pratt K and Carne C (1993) Attitudes of medical students to HIV and AIDS. Genitourinary Medicine, 69:377-380.

Fitzpatrick R, Dawson J, Boulton M et al. (1994) Perceptions of general practice among homosexual men. British Journal of General Practice. 44: 80-2.

Gallagher M, Foy C, Rhodes T, Philips P, Setters J, Moore M, Naji S, Donaldson C and Bond J (1990) HIV infection and AIDS in England and Wales: general practitioners' workload and contact with patients. British Journal of General Practice, 40:154-7.

Gillespie F (1993) Health carers' attitudes to HIV infection and AIDS. British Journal of Nursing, pp516-523.

Gold R and Rosenthal D, (1995) Preventing unprotected anal intercourse in gay men: a comparison of two intervention techniques, International Journal of STD & AIDS, 6: 89-94.

Hamer D and Copeland P (1994) The Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior. Touchstone, New York.

Hoolaghan T, Blache G and Pidcock J (1993) The role of general practitioners in HIV prevention: findings from a questionnaire survey. The Health promotion in General Practice Project. Camden and Islington Health Promotion Service, London.

Jewitt C (1995) Sexual history taking in general practice. The HIV Project, London.

King E, Rooney M and Scott P (1992) HIV Prevention for Gay Men - A Survey of Initiatives in the UK. North West Thames Regional Health Authority, London.

King E (1993) Safety in Numbers. Cassell, London.

King E (1996) HIV prevention and the new virology in Oppenheimer J et al. (eds.) Acting on AIDS, (1997), Serpent's Tail, London.

King M (1988) AIDS and the General Practitioner: views of patients with HIV infection and AIDS. BMJ 297:182-184.

King M (1989) London general practitioners' involvement with HIV infection. Journal of the Royal college of General Practitioners 39:280-283.

Kippax S, Connell R, Dowsett G and Crawford J (1993) Sustaining Safe Sex: Gay Communities Respond to AIDS, The Falmer Press, London.

Mansfield S and Singh S (1989) The general practitioner and Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection: an insight into patients' attitudes. Journal of the Royal college of General Practitioners, 39: 104-5

McLean et al. (1994) Regular Partners and Risky Behaviour: Why do Gay Men Have Unprotected Intercourse?, AIDS Care, 6(3): 331-341

Mondimore F (1996) A natural history of homosexuality. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

Newberry D (1994) Survey of General Practitioners: perceptions of gay men. Salisbury Gay Men's Health Project.

PHLS (1997) AIDS/HIV Quarterly Surveillance Tables Public Health Laboratory Service AIDS Centre (HIV, STD Division, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre) and the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health, No. 34, data to the end of December 1996.

Rendell M (1994) Results of the Health Survey to Assess the Health Needs of Local Gay Men and Bisexual Men and to Identify Gaps in Local Service Provision, Winchester Health Promotion Department, Winchester.

Rendell M (1995) Survey of general practitioners' attitudes towards HIV/AIDS and homosexuality in the North and Mid Hampshire Health Commission Area. North and Mid Hampshire Gay Men's Health Initiative. For a copy of the report write to the Health Promotion Department, 63 Romsey Road, Winchester, Hants. SO22 5DE.

Roderick P, Victor C and Beardow R (1990) Developing care in the community: GPs and the HIV epidemic. AIDS Care 2(2): 127-132.

Rofes E (1996) Reviving the tribe: regenerating gay men's sexuality and culture in the ongoing epidemic. Haworth press, New York.

Salisbury D and Begg N (1996) The 1996 Immunisation against Infectious Diseases. HMSO.

Scott P (1995) A No-Nonsense Guide: Commissioning HIV Prevention Services for Gay and Bisexual Men, Health Education Authority, London.

Scott P and Woods L (1997) Critical Tolerance: a gay community led model of needs assessment. Local Government Management Board.

Stall R (1994) How to Lose The Fight Against AIDS in Gay Men , editorial, BMJ 309: 685-6.

Thornton P (1996) General Practitioner Reports for Insurance Companies. Coventry Health, Coventry.

Turner G (1994) The Health Needs of Gay and Bisexual Men in Southampton & South West Hampshire, Southampton Gay Men's Health Project, Southampton.

UK Health Departments (1995) HIV & AIDS Health Promotion: An Evolving Strategy, Department of Health, London.

Unlinked Anonymous HIV Survey Steering Group (1995) Unlinked Anonymous HIV Prevalence Monitoring Programme in England and Wales. Report to the Department of Health, London.

Wadsworth E and McCann K (1992) Attitudes towards and use of general practitioner services among homosexual men with HIV infection or AIDS. British Journal of General Practice, 42(356):107-110.

Watney S (1997) Policing desire: pornography AIDS and the media. (3rd Edition). Cassell, London.

Wellings K, Field J, Johnson A and Wadsworth J (1994) Sexual behaviour in Britain: The National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles. Penguin, London.

Zera D (1992) Coming of age in a heterosexist world: the development of gay and lesbian adolescents. Adolescence. 27: 849-54.