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Annie Howard, HIV Confident Programme Manager, shares how HIV Confident is helping organisations turn awareness into action for Zero HIV Stigma Day.

James Cole, Senior Policy, Research and Influencing Manager, shares why the UN Political Declaration on HIV must reinforce UK action at home and abroad.

Reflections on the proposed social media ban and the role of social media for young people living with HIV.

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.

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

"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."

NAT and BHIVA have today published new guidance to support HIV care in Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs).

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.

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.

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.

This is a guest blog for NAT from Silvia Petretti, joint CEO at Positively UK. Visit the Changing Perceptions website here.

NAT hit Amsterdam 23-27 July 2018 for AIDS2018. This was my first foray into the hotpot of activism and energy that is the International AIDS Conference. It did not disappoint and I’m still absorbing much of it, but here are some of my key take-aways…