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Who we are

Our vision is to be a provider of education and training in the field of sexual health and the reduction of sexually transmitted diseases, predominantly in resource poor countries, and to promote the attainment and maintenance of sexual health for all persons.

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Objectives

Through all its activities, TASH promotes a positive and respectful approach to sexual health and relationships, taking into account the cultural and social realities facing those that it seeks to help.

The types of activities TASH undertakes include:

  • Designing and providing organisation-specific training courses for health professionals.
  • Facilitating seminars and workshops at international health, and AIDS conferences.
  • Undertaking of evidence-based advocacy to international health organisations on issues raised and/or researched by TASH on the link between public health gain and motivating people to practise safer sex.
  • Undertaking or organizing the undertaking of research into areas of sexual health and the reduction of sexually transmitted infections.
  • Providing an information hub and network to share lesson learned and resources on sexual health and the reduction of sexually transmitted infection.
  • Organising conferences and seminars to bring together those working in the entertainment industries with health care providers, to discuss ways of promoting safer sex through art, cinema, literature and the media.
  • Providing information on initiatives to promote safer sex to the general public.
  • Hosting a website that allows the sharing of information on sexual health and the reduction of sexually transmitted infections by a wide range of organisations.


Trustees

Anne Philpott, UK Department for International Development (DFID)

Wendy Knerr, The Write Effect communications consultancy

Susan Jolly, Sexuality and Development Programme, Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex

Sophie Garner, Barrister, St Philips Chambers

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