At the meeting of Council held on 10^th December 2015, it was resolved to refer back the Cabinet’s initial response to the HIV notice of motion (the motion was originally submitted to Council on 22^nd October 2015). The Cabinet considered a report of the Director of Public Health setting out a revised suggested response to meet the general objectives of the motion.

Resolved:-

That the Southend-on-Sea Borough Council HIV Position Statement, as set out in Appendix 1 to the submitted report, be adopted in order to meet the general objectives of the motion.

Reason for Decision

A late HIV diagnosis can have adverse consequences on the individual including making it more likely the person will have frequent admissions to hospital due to illness and reducing their life expectancy and also increases the risk of transmission of the disease within the population

Other Options

That the original HIV motion is agreed or other measures are introduced to reduce the proportion of people diagnosed late with HIV in the Borough.

Note:- This is an Executive Function.

Eligible for call-in to People Scrutiny Committee

Executive Councillor:- Cllr Moyies