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Jacqui Stevenson, Senior Policy, Research and Influencing Manager, reflects on prioritising people's quality of life in HIV policy.

Digital transformation holds real potential for strengthening the UK’s HIV response but only if the right safeguards, investment, and co-production with communities are put in place.

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. 

Daniel Fluskey, our Director of Policy, Research and Influencing, writes about how ensuring high quality, equitable, and sustainable HIV and sexual health services across the UK has to be the bedrock of public policy that aims to end HIV transmissions and support everyone to live well with HIV.

Rebecca Tallon de Havilland on the importance of trans visibility in the fight for HIV rights.

Alan O'Neill on what the fight for equal fertility rights for everyone living with HIV means to him and his future plans.

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.

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.

Chloe Orkin, the Professor of Infection and Inequities at the Queen Mary University of London, talks about her career working in HIV.

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.

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’.

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.