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Marc Thompson is Director of The Love Tank; co-founder of PrEPster, and creator of the podcast We Were Always Here. He has been living with HIV since 1986.

A guest blog by Michelle Ross to mark Transgender Awareness Week, celebrating the role trans people play in HIV activism.

Rebecca Mbewe shares that as a black migrant woman from Africa, I would like to delve a little deeper into the conversations around sexual health and perhaps what this means to black women like me living in the UK, this Black History Month.

Deborah Gold on the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities' rejection of the existence and impacts of institutional and structural racism in the UK ignores evidence, real experiences, and defies logic.

National AIDS Trust works to protect and defend human rights for everyone at risk of or living with HIV. We believe, alongside the WHO, that: “The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being”.

The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year has brought much uncertainty but if this period has offered some clarity on one thing it’s that structural racism is alive and well in the UK.

This week saw the publication of a PHE review that describes a disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on BAME people in England, linked to wider socio-economic and health inequalities. HIV is one health issue driven by inequality.

The urgency of this inquiry cannot be questioned considering the disproportionate suffering of people of colour from the pandemic.

Prevent, part of the Government’s counter-terrorism strategy, is highly contested, with concerns it is more akin to surveillance, with individuals viewed as potential criminals rather than those with care and support needs.