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Pilot study to explore the characteristics of Chagossian people living with HIV in Crawley, UK
  1. Fionnuala Finnerty1,2,3,
  2. Marie Tessa Simmy Ramrajsingh4,
  3. Eva Bangova5,
  4. Lena Abdu5,
  5. Sibusisiwe Mutambara6,
  6. Emily Hunter7,
  7. Daniel Richardson1,3
  1. 1University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, Brighton, England, UK
  2. 2University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, Crawley, UK
  3. 3Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, UK
  4. 4Sussex, Citizens Advice Bureau, London, England, UK
  5. 5Alliance for Better Care Health Equity, Crawley, Sussex, UK
  6. 6Community HIV Specialist Service, Crawley, UK
  7. 7Crawley Open House, Crawley, UK
  1. Correspondence to Professor Daniel Richardson; daniel.richardson7{at}nhs.net

https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2025-056583

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    The people of the Chagos islands (figure 1) were forcibly displaced by the British between 1967 and 1973.1 2 Locally, in Crawley, close to Gatwick Airport, is the largest Chagossian diaspora globally (~3500). As part of a service improvement project, this evaluation aimed to describe the characteristics of Chagossian people living with HIV.

    Figure 1

    A map of the Chagos Islands, and the characteristics of Chagossian people living with HIV …

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    Footnotes

    • Handling editor Anna Maria Geretti

    • Contributors FF and DR produced the study concept. FF collected and analysed the data. DR wrote the first draft of the manuscript and created the figure. FF, MTSR, EB, LA, SM, EH and DR all contributed to the final manuscript. FF is acting as the guarantor.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

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    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.