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To mark National HIV Testing Week, Andrea Leadsom and Angela Rayner join 40 MPs testing for HIV

Graham Robson February 10, 2024

Health Minister Andrea Leadsom MP, Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner MP and 40 other MPs have tested for HIV to show how quick and easy it is and encourage others to do the same during National HIV Testing Week (until 11 February). A host of cross-party MPs got tested including Health Minister Andrew Stephenson, Equalities […]

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Equalities Minister, Stuart Andrew MP, visits Brighton for National HIV Testing Week to show how quick and easy it is to get tested

Graham Robson February 6, 2024

Lead pic: Minister for Equalities, Stuart Andrew MP, visits Jubilee Library’s HIV and STI test vending machines Today (Tuesday, February 6), Minister for Equalities, Stuart Andrew MP, visited Terrence Higgins Trust in Brighton to show how easy it is to test for HIV and see the city’s world-leading HIV and sexual health services to mark […]

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Heterosexual HIV testing still behind pre-Covid levels, as National HIV Testing Week starts in England

Graham Robson February 5, 2024

HIV testing rates among heterosexual men and women are down by a quarter compared to before the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the latest data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). This comes as National HIV Testing Week starts today (February 5) with free at-home test kits available to anyone in England as part of […]

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National HIV Testing Week returns from Monday, February 5

Graham Robson January 11, 2024

National HIV Testing Week returns from Monday, February 5 and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) is calling on people across the country to test for HIV – and this year’s a special one as it marks a decade since it started. Testing, which is free and confidential, is the only way to know […]

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Features

I used to be terrified of HIV – now I can have sex with confidence

January 16, 2023

Growing up, HIV was an incredibly fearful subject for young gay men like me. It was portrayed as something that no-one could deal with, and something you should be incredibly scared of at all times.

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Health

Heterosexual HIV diagnoses overtake those in gay men for first time in a decade – signalling changing shape of epidemic as National HIV Testing Week launches

Graham Robson February 7, 2022

For the first time in a decade the number of new HIV diagnoses among heterosexuals are higher than in gay and bisexual men, according to new figures for England from the UK Health Security Agency as National HIV Testing Week launches today (February 7)

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General News

Study finds non-LGBTQ+ people less likely to get HIV test

Rachel Badham February 4, 2021

New research undertaken by the Terrence Higgins Trust found straight people are considerably less likely to get tested for the virus, despite making up 40% of recorded cases in 2019.

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