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Oluwakemi Agunbiade reflects on the persistent inequalities in HIV testing and health outcomes for people living with HIV and the action needed to be taken for Black communities.

Oluwakemi Agunbiade reflects on the impact of the Timms Review and potential changes in disability benefits for people living with HIV.

To bring 2021 to a close, we've rounded up our highlights of the year. These successes wouldn't have been possible without your continued support, so we just want to say a big thank you to everyone who got involved with our work.

Dr Tristan Barber writes how last month, NICE approved the use of long-lasting injectable treatment for people living with HIV, the first alternative to daily oral pills. You can read our full blog on the announcement here.

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.

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.