CHAPS is a partnership of UK gay men's health promotion

Health promotion

Health promotion has been defined by the World Health Organization's 2005 Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized World as "the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health"...

 organisations. It is currently funded to operate in England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 and Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 by the Department of Health

Department of Health (United Kingdom)

The Department of Health is a department of the United Kingdom government with responsibility for government policy for health and social care matters and for the National Health Service in England along with a few elements of the same matters which are not otherwise devolved to the Scottish,...

 and is administered by Terrence Higgins Trust

Terrence Higgins Trust

Terrence Higgins Trust is a British charity that campaigns on various issues related to AIDS and HIV. In particular, the charity aims to reduce the spread of HIV and promote good sexual health ; to provide services on a national and local level to people with, affected by, or at risk of...

.

The partnership is primarily concerned with producing sexual health promotion campaigns, information booklets and web resources for use by homosexually active men and support material on sexual health topics for use by health professionals.

The partnership

There are varying levels of involvement for organisations in the partnership, the main two being 'partnership' and 'associate partnership'.

Partners (in alphabetical order)

• GMFA
  GMFA
  GMFA is a British health promotion charitable organization that campaigns to improve gay men’s health...
  
   (formerly Gay Men Fighting AIDS), London
• LGF
  The Lesbian & Gay Foundation
  The Lesbian and Gay Foundation is a charity based in Manchester. It was formed with the merger of Healthy Gay Manchester and Manchester Lesbian and Gay Switchboard Services in April 2000....
  
   (formerly Lesbian and Gay Foundation), Manchester
• Sigma Research, London
• Terrence Higgins Trust
  Terrence Higgins Trust
  Terrence Higgins Trust is a British charity that campaigns on various issues related to AIDS and HIV. In particular, the charity aims to reduce the spread of HIV and promote good sexual health ; to provide services on a national and local level to people with, affected by, or at risk of...
  
  (London, South, Midlands, West and Wales regional offices only)
• Trade, Leicester
• Yorkshire MESMAC, Leeds

Associate partners

• The Armistead Project, Liverpool
• Centre for HIV and Sexual Health, Sheffield
• The Eddystone Trust, Plymouth