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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. 

General Election no obstacle for Equal HIV fertility rights

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Adam Freedman, our Policy, Research and Influencing Manager, shares our reaction when the Government announced the secondary legislation to allow people with HIV with an undetectable viral load to donate sperm or eggs to allow them to start families of their own.

People in Northern Ireland deserve equal protection from HIV discrimination

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Adam Freedman, Adam Freedman, our Policy, Research and Influencing Manager, writes about how people at risk of discrimination in Northern Ireland have been left behind the rest of the UK for far too long, with weaker discrimination laws - and people living with and at risk of acquiring HIV are one of many groups that are detrimentally affected.

Ten years of working on HIV criminalisation

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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.

New HIV training for Talking Therapies launches

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Oluwakemi Agunbiade, our Policy and Research Officer, writes how National AIDS Trust is proud to have collaborated with the NHS England team, alongside ViiV and many of the people who contributed to our original findings, on the development of an e-learning module: ‘Breaking barriers in HIV care’.

LGBT+ History Month Q&A with Dr Tristan Barber

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We spoke to Dr Barber, an HIV and Sexual Health Consultant at the Ian Charleson Day Centre, Royal Free Hospital, and Honorary Associate Professor at the Institute for Global Health at UCL, about his work.

LGBT+ History Month: HIV history #UnderTheScope

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Joe Parry, our Director of Communications and Engagement, write about the theme of LGBT+ History Month 2024, Medicine – #UnderTheScope, and the opportunity to reflect on the intertwined histories of HIV, as a medical and social issue, and LGBT+ community activism.