Taslima Rashid is a specialist trainee in HIV and sexual health at Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare NHS Fdn Trust. She trained at Imperial College School of Medicine and qualified in 2010 with an MBBS and Bachelor of Science in Endocrinological Sciences. She started her specialist training programme in HIV and Sexual Health in 2015 and currently works in the John Hunter Clinic at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Her specialist clinics have involved genital dermatology, HIV antenatal clinics, Over50s HIV clinic and sexual and reproductive health procedure clinics (implants, coils).
Taslima provides lecture based teaching to the undergraduate 5th year Imperial medical students on Hepatitis, STIs and HIV, as well as organising the induction programme and training sessions every four months for all new doctors rotating into the specialty. Taslima is involved in post graduate medical education programmes such as facilitating in group sessions with school children from local schools who are interested in medicine, providing teaching for non-HIV specialties such as Emergency medicine trainees and paediatricians and facilitating on the Faculty for Sexual and Reproductive health courses/diplomas.
She is currently working on projects around anti-retroviral safety and working to improve services to underserved populations such as the South East Asian community, trans people and women of colour. She will complete her training in January 2020.
She currently volunteers for Medical Justice – a UK based charity providing free specialist medical examinations on behalf of immigration detainees in the UK and hopes to help out in other third sector organisations such as the Naz Project and the Sophia Forum.
