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World AIDS Day: HIV data and the HIV Action Plan

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This year marks 40 years since the start of the HIV epidemic in the UK. As we remember and celebrate the lives of those lost, we also mark the progress made over this time.

Long-acting injectable HIV treatment

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Community guidance from UK-CAB (UK Community Advisory Board) and National AIDS Trust on the NICE decision on cabotegravir with riplivirine (long-acting injectibles)

HIV and mental health: why we must improve mental health services

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Today is World Mental Health Day and this year’s theme - 'Mental Health in an Unequal World’ - is a fitting one. Like HIV, poor mental health can affect us all. Yet we know that its impact on different groups is not equal, instead reflecting wider social, economic and health inequalities.

Black History Month and HIV

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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.

Why we must normalise HIV testing for all

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Dr Tristan Barber writes that when patients are asked if they’ve ever had an HIV test many respond their GP did blood tests and they’re sure HIV must’ve been checked then. Most often they are incorrect.

Home Office is failing people in Immigration Removal Centres

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People living with HIV that are held in immigration detention in the UK are entitled to the same level of healthcare and patient rights as those in wider society. Unfortunately, we know this does not always happen in practice.

2021: time for a fuller picture on HIV

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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.