Almost 2,000 people living with HIV and Hepatitis who were previously undiagnosed have been identified by the NHS over the last year, thanks to a new testing pilot. Under the NHS programme, people visiting an A&E who are having blood taken as part of their visit have an extra sample of blood taken, which is […]
1 December 2022 is World Aids Day. It is the perfect time for us to raise much needed awareness about HIV. Professor Juliet Wright, Founding Dean of the School of Medicine at The University of Surrey shares how the care of patients living with HIV has played a central part of her career and the […]
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People living with HIV have a significantly delayed internal body clock, consistent with the symptoms of jet lag, according to new findings reported by researchers from universities in South Africa and the UK. The findings, which have been published in the Journal of Pineal Research, may explain some of the health problems experienced by people […]
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New global alliance launched to end AIDS in children by 2030: Globally, only half (52%) of children living with HIV are on life-saving treatment, far behind adults where three quarters (76%) are receiving antiretrovirals, according to the data that has just been released in the UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2022. Concerned by the stalling of […]
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The first long-acting option to protect women from HIV, proven to reduce women’s HIV risk, has been recommended for use by the World Health Organization (WHO). For nearly two decades, researchers from the School of Pharmacy at Queen’s University Belfast have been supporting development of a new drug-releasing vaginal ring to protect women from infection […]
This World AIDS Day: End Inequalities, End AIDS, End Pandemics: “As if HIV itself were not enough, COVID-19 has brought more fear and insecurities to the communities. I felt the same things with the COVID-19 pandemic that I did when I heard I had the HIV virus—fear, anxiety, stress, and limitations. In the community, they say COVID-19 will be the end of the […]
Liam Beattie from Terrence Higgins Trust gives a short overview of the work of the charity. Terrence Higgins Trust was one of the first charities to be set up in response to the HIV epidemic and has been at the forefront of the fight against HIV, and improving the nation’s sexual health, ever since. Our […]
WHO’s latest HIV Drug Resistance Report gives an in-depth picture of the extent to which drug resistance is growing, and the steps that countries are taking to ensure people will receive effective medicine to treat and prevent HIV. The report reveals that in 2020, 64% of focus countries (countries with a high burden of HIV infection) had […]
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National AIDS Trust’s response to NHS Blood and Transplant’s changes to blood, plasma and platelet donations from 14 June 2021 Deborah Gold, Chief Executive of National AIDS Trust, said: “We welcome the changes made today (Monday 14 June) meaning more gay and bisexual men will be able to donate blood safely because of eligibility now […]
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Introducing the HIV Commission to mark World AIDS Day: Kat Smithson is director of policy at the National AIDS Trust which worked in partnership with the Terrence Higgins Trust and the Elton John AIDS Foundation to jointly establish the independent HIV Commission. To mark World AIDS Day, and the release of the HIV Commission’s first […]
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