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Dr Tristan Barber, Chair of the British HIV Association, shares his professional and personal reflections for LGBT+ History Month on the theme of science and innovation.

It’s time to get lenacapavir approved by NHS England and out to people who need it.

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

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

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

Dr Alexander Margetts writes that although not everyone who’s living with HIV needs mental health support, services must be improved for those that need them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Last year we welcomed the publication of the first report of Dame Carole Black’s independent review of drugs. Part two of the review, looking at prevention, treatment and recovery, was published last week.