HIV prevention news: England

Since 2012, the Department of Health has been funding a national programme of HIV prevention for gay men, other men who have sex with men and African communities in England. It is called HIV Prevention England (HPE). For more information, visit the dedicated website: www.hivpreventionengland.org.uk

From 2012 to early 2016, as part of the programme, NAM offered a regular update on the evolving evidence, news and policy of interest to people working in HIV prevention in England. An archive of the email bulletin, HIV prevention news: England, is available below.

Visit the resources pages for briefing papers, produced by NAM for HIV Prevention England, on Undiagnosed HIV infection, HIV treatment as prevention and HIV testing technologies.

Archive

Issue #16 - December 2013

  • What do you think of this bulletin?
  • New diagnoses in gay men
  • New diagnoses in heterosexual men and women
  • Rise in HIV testing
  • Changing sexual behaviour
  • Partner notification is highly effective
  • Harm reduction works
  • Other recent news headlines
  • Editors' picks from other sources
  • HIV prevention conference
  • New briefing: Undiagnosed infection
  • Videos
  • HIV prevention bulletin
  • HIV Prevention England

Issue #15 - November 2013

  • Expanded HIV testing
  • Pre-test counselling
  • Sexually transmitted infections
  • Hepatitis C reinfection
  • Case study: faith work
  • Other recent news headlines
  • Editors' picks from other sources
  • What do you think of this bulletin?
  • New briefing: Undiagnosed infection
  • HIV testing week
  • African health and sex survey
  • HIV prevention bulletin
  • HIV Prevention England

Issue #14 - October 2013

  • Preparing for National HIV Testing Week
  • Who will take PrEP?
  • Vaccine research
  • Diagnosing acute HIV infection
  • Female condoms
  • Vaginal rings
  • Gay men’s risk profiles
  • Attitudes to treatment
  • Other recent news headlines
  • Case studies
  • PrEP community statement
  • African Health Promotion Summit
  • IAPAC evidence summit
  • African health and sex survey
  • HIV prevention bulletin
  • HIV Prevention England
  • Editors' picks from other sources

Issue #13 - September 2013

  • Testing in relationships
  • Assessing the impact of mass media
  • Partner violence and condom use
  • Sexual roles
  • Willingness to take early treatment
  • Case study: condom campaign
  • Other recent news headlines
  • PrEP community statement
  • HIV testing week
  • African Health Promotion Summit
  • PrEP videos
  • IAPAC evidence summit
  • HIV prevention bulletin
  • HIV Prevention England
  • Editors' picks from other sources

Issue #12 - August 2013

  • Important changes to HIV-related rules announced by Department of Health
  • Rectal STIs predict HIV infection
  • What will it take for treatment to work as prevention?
  • We should provide HPV vaccine to young gay men, UK experts say
  • European women with HIV having unnecessary caesareans
  • Hepatitis C uncommon in HIV-negative gay men – unless they also have syphilis
  • Other recent news headlines
  • Editors' picks from other sources
  • African Health Promotion Summit
  • HIV testing week
  • Webinar: rectal microbicides
  • New prevention bulletin
  • HIV Prevention England

Issue #11 - July 2013

  • High HIV prevalence among migrant gay men
  • Viral loads of people in and out of healthcare
  • Community testing and linkage to care
  • Hepatitis C reinfection
  • Intervening during acute HIV infection
  • Bareback pornography
  • Other recent news headlines
  • Editors' picks from other sources
  • Webinar: condoms
  • HIV and injecting drug use
  • New prevention bulletin
  • HIV Prevention England

Issue #10 - June 2013

  • New diagnoses of HIV and STIs
  • Improving HIV testing
  • PrEP works for injecting drug users
  • Deciding what’s risky
  • Sexual health promotion on Facebook
  • Community viral load
  • Other recent news headlines
  • Editors' picks from other sources
  • Statement on treatment as prevention
  • Public Health Outcomes Framework – LGBT companion document
  • It Starts With Me
  • New prevention bulletin
  • HIV Prevention England

Issue #9 - May 2013

  • Health and wellbeing boards' priorities
  • GPs and HIV testing
  • Drugs and risky sex
  • Vaccine research
  • Viral load and unprotected sex
  • Herpes viruses and detectable viral load
  • Other recent news headlines
  • Editors' picks from other sources
  • It Starts With Me
  • New prevention bulletin
  • HIV Prevention England

Issue #8 - April 2013

  • Gay couples’ sexual agreements
  • Gay men’s risk behaviour
  • Sexual health framework for England
  • HIV testing interventions
  • Motivations to take an HIV test
  • Other recent news headlines
  • Editors' picks from other sources
  • Commissioning HIV testing services
  • It Starts with Me
  • Hepatitis C basics
  • New prevention bulletin
  • HIV Prevention England

Issue #7 - March 2013

  • How effective are condoms?
  • Disappointing PrEP and microbicide results
  • Treatment as prevention
  • Menstrual cycle and HIV transmission
  • People with HIV not disclosing at GUM clinics
  • Prosecutions for transmission of HIV
  • Terrence Higgins Trust’s role in HIV Prevention England
  • Next HPE campaign
  • Other recent news headlines
  • Editors' picks from other sources
  • Sexual health commissioning
  • Briefings on Health and Wellbeing Boards working with the voluntary and community sector
  • IQhiv
  • New prevention bulletin
  • HIV Prevention England

Issue #6 - February 2013

  • UK position statement on HIV treatment as prevention
  • Incidence in gay men: the impact of condom use, testing and treatment
  • Crystal meth in London
  • Limited impact of acute infection campaign
  • Circumcision in UK gay men
  • African epidemic fuelled by high viral loads
  • NAM’s role in HIV Prevention England
  • Other recent news headlines
  • National HIV Testing Week (NHTW) survey
  • Keeping Confidence
  • Local authority data
  • New prevention bulletin
  • HIV Prevention England
  • Editors' picks from other sources

Issue #5 - January 2013

  • Low uptake of behavioural interventions in GUM
  • Young people’s safer sex knowledge
  • Communications about PEP
  • Sigma Research's role in HIV Prevention England
  • Local delivery partners
  • HIV prevention webinars
  • Sexual health conference
  • New prevention bulletin
  • HIV Prevention England
  • Editors' picks from other sources
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