Alan Spink, community services manager at local HIV charity the Sussex Beacon, is also a supporter of National AIDS Trust, the UK’s HIV rights charity. Alan answers a few questions ahead of this year’s World AIDS Day, which takes place Sunday, December 1. What do you do for a living? I work as a community […]
Since 2009, East London HIV charity Positive East has organised the World AIDS Day RED RUN on the last weekend of November – just before World AIDS Day on December 1. What began with a small gathering of 50 people is now one of the UK’s biggest annual HIV community events, raising over £1.1 million […]
After a delay caused by the General Election and change of Government, National AIDS Trust, the British HIV Association (BHIVA) and the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) are happy to see the removal of the “unjust, homophobic and unscientific” barrier that prevented both people living with HIV who are LGBTQ+, and anyone seeking […]
This autumn, Autograph gallery in London presents a new photography exhibition exploring a radical vision of culture, intimacy, desire and pain. Featuring never-before-seen works from artist Rotimi Fani-Kayode’s wider practice, Rotimi Fani-Kayode: The Studio – Staging Desire will be on show at Autograph’s gallery in East London from 31 October 2024 – 22 March 2025. […]
A new HIV Action Plan will be published by summer 2025, Andrew Gwynne MP, Minister for Public Health and Prevention, has announced. According to sexual health charity, Terrence Higgins Trust, an updated plan is “vital if we are to achieve the goal of ending new cases of HIV in England by 2030”. The Minister made […]
A special exhibition of the Terrence Higgins Memorial Quilt has been unveiled at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. This poignant and powerful memorial quilt is dedicated to Terrence Higgins, who served in the Royal Navy from 1963 – 1968 and was the first named person to die of an […]
Terrence Higgins Trust, Marie Curie, the Mary Stevens Hospice and University College London have launched a research study, approved by the UCL research ethics committee, to understand barriers and experiences of people living with HIV around planning for and receiving palliative and end of life care. The survey will ask about your experiences of accessing […]
The latest HIV surveillance data for 2023, published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) on October 1, shows that the number of heterosexual men and women newly diagnosed in England with HIV has increased by more than 30% since 2022. Diagnoses among heterosexual men rose by 36% (445 in 2022 to 605 in 2023) […]
Dr Sermed Mezher, a London GP, has posted a video on Tik Tok with misinformation that you can contract HIV and hepatitis from blood stained toilet roll, which has had over one million views. According to HIV charity Terrence Higgins Trust, this is “extremely worrying as no-one has ever contracted HIV from toilet roll”. The […]
Erica Hann from Legends, one of Brighton’s premier LGBTQ+ venues, will have her running shoes on this weekend, as she does The Lap around the stunning Lake Windemere, all 47 miles of it! This run is part of her fundraising on behalf of local HIV charity, the Sussex Beacon, which will culminate in Erica running […]
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