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This Is What Could Happen To People With HIV If There’s A No-Deal Brexit

The supply of drugs, access to new treatments, and staffing levels at clinics could all be affected, warn experts. “This is a basic public health issue,” said Stephen Doughty MP.

Published
25 September 2018
From
BuzzFeed News
PrEP
PrEP drug patent overturned in UK - NAT respond

The High Court has today overturned Gilead's patent extension on Truvada, the HIV drug also used in PrEP.

Published
18 September 2018
From
National AIDS Trust
PrEP
Do-it-yourself HIV prevention: who do men buying PrEP online get support from?

Gay men in London who source their own supply of generic pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs, usually from overseas internet pharmacies, most often learnt about this possibility from

Published
18 September 2018
By
Roger Pebody
Finding support
Peer support is crucial for many people living with HIV

Social support from peers living with HIV is of a different nature to the support received from people who do not have that direct, lived experience of

Published
07 September 2018
By
Roger Pebody
UK health services
Minister's empty words on HIV will not fill financial void

Public health minister Steve Brine, perhaps rather optimistically, claims the figures show the country is well on its way to eradicating HIV “once and for all”. But the scale of the cuts to public health funding raises questions over what more could have been done up until now and whether the current encouraging performance can be maintained.

Published
04 September 2018
From
Local Government Chronicle
Epidemiology
HIV diagnoses in gay men in the UK decreased by a third in two years

New HIV diagnoses in the UK have fallen again, with the greatest reduction seen in gay and bisexual men. Previously diagnoses in this group increased

Published
04 September 2018
By
Roger Pebody
UK health services
Sexual health clinics in England see record demand amid budget cuts

Councils say they could struggle to respond to unforeseen STI outbreaks if cuts aren’t reversed

Published
03 September 2018
From
The Guardian
UK health services
Syphilis diagnoses are booming - it's clear sexual health needs an overhaul

Moving sexual health services to local government was a good idea. It encourages the embedding of those services in their communities and offers the prospect of better support for groups that can be hard for the NHS to reach, such as young people. But the relentless cuts to local government funding are putting people’s physical and mental health at risk, while the blurred accountability is undermining the importance of sexual health as a political priority.

Published
28 August 2018
From
The Guardian
HIV prevention policy
Greater Manchester set to join world's leading cities in tackling HIV

Historic signing of Paris Declaration at Manchester Pride launches city-region’s bid to become a Fast Track City. Over £1 million committed to end the 300 new HIV transmissions in Greater Manchester every year.

Published
28 August 2018
From
Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Behaviour change interventions
Huge geographical inequity in access to PrEP health promotion activity, new mapping exercise shows

Large parts of England are not being reached with PrEP health promotion activity according to a new mapping exercise undertaken by Public Health England, in partnership with PrEPster.

Published
22 August 2018
From
Prepster
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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