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Daron Oram, our Senior Programme Manager, on how the HIV Confident charter mark can to help organisations and institutions to tackle HIV stigma and discrimination.

Diagnosed with HIV in 2007 and describing himself as ‘unashamedly undetectable’, Ant Babajee is a former BBC journalist, award-winning activist, public health graduate and coaching professional apprentice.

We spoke to Charity Kase, from RuPaul’s Drag Race UK season three, about drag, HIV advocacy and where she gets her artistic inspiration.

To mark international HIV is Not a Crime Awareness Day (HINAC Day), Kat Smithson reflects on the many examples of the criminalisation of HIV that she has seen in the UK over the past decade, and the damage that this broken approach continues to do.

Annie Howard, our Policy and Research Manager, on how HIV stigma and discrimination remain major barriers to accessing services worldwide. Understanding and addressing stigma is critical to achieving zero discrimination and strategies to end HIV and AIDS by 2030.

Kat Smithson writes about how alongside Positively UK and NAM aidsmap, we’re partnering with Fast Track Cities London to create and deliver a new charter to break down prevailing misconceptions and stereotypes driving HIV stigma.

Kat Smithson on how forty years after the first cases of HIV-related illnesses and deaths, knowledge and understanding of HIV among the public is often patchy and confused and significant levels of stigma and discrimination remain.

Today the Government announced rule changes that will allow more gay and bisexual men to donate blood in the UK. Kat Smithson explains how these changes affect the assessment that donors complete when they give blood.

Channel 4’s ground-breaking drama “It’s a Sin” shone a harrowing light on the failings of public institutions in the early days HIV. The stark depictions of the police responses to HIV and AIDS, based on real experiences, are particularly pertinent.