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Health service provision: activities will consist of the provision of information and awareness on available serves access to culturally available services. For instance information and advice on registration with registration with GP dentist; accessing service on sexually Transmitted disease in particular HIV/AIDS. Approach will include workshops and seminars; one to support; referrals to specialist service providers; outreach work, one to one advice social events where which ahs proved to be a very successful form of disseminating information on STD.; working with religious and peer leaders of the communities. Holding special sessions and workshops for African refugee Muslims women with cultural and religious restrictions.
Service users also point to other unmet needs for basic information and access to service, regarding NHS services such as GP and Dentist registration. There are also complains that that mainstream services are seen to act as barriers to health services. For instance some GP do not consider registering refugees and asylum seekers within their surgeries. There are no basic information regarding TB CHD and HIV and culturally appropriate information on available services (testing and treatment) and transmission; the need to address stigma. A concern which is also addressed in the Department of Health (DH) policy document for HIV prevention and Health Promotion” for African Communities in London (Sept 2001)Lack of information on statutory service were one the problems face by refugees in accessing services particularly new for arrivals; lack of language and communication for people whom English were not their first or second language.