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What Pride means to us

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In this important month for the community, in a year that has seen increasing challenges and rollback of LGBT+ rights in the UK and around the world, we asked some colleagues, supporters and allies what Pride means to them in 2025. 

HIV, PrEP, and the Right to Health

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It is seven years since PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) was licensed for use in the USA, and three years since we successfully challenged NHS England in the courts on its refusal to consider making PrEP available.

Prevention: fund public health

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Eighty organisations from across the health sector have issued a consensus statement telling the Government to fund public health.

Why the infected blood enquiry matters

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"My name is Robert and I have HIV. My story is an old one that has come back into the news because of the infected blood inquiry."

Balance for Better: our work on women and HIV

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HIV is a women’s issue. Internationally, young women are the group facing the greatest risk of acquiring HIV and in the UK a third of people living with the virus are women.

Why Data Matters: HIV in Europe

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A new paper published in Eurosurveillance today finds that there has been substantial progress towards achieving the global UNAIDS targets across Europe and Central Asia. Despite this, an estimated 1.2 million people living with HIV still have transmissible levels of the virus because they have been unable to access prevention methods, testing or treatment for HIV. This paper is the first output of nearly two years’ work by NAT as part of the Dublin Declaration monitoring team.

M·A·C COSMETICS – 15 YEARS SUPPORTING NAT

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One of our strongest and most longstanding partnerships has been with M·A·C Cosmetics, who as well as stocking our red ribbons on every one of their counters in the UK, have funded much of our work over the last 15 years. To mark 15 years of our partnership, we’re looking back at how M·A·C have led the way in showing how businesses can make a real difference to the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS, tackle stigma and discrimination, and help to end new transmissions.