As the theme of this year’s Sexual Health Week is ‘playing it safe’, Joseph and Nathaniel will use their social media platforms to help raise awareness of the four sure ways to prevent HIV and stay safe with regular HIV testing, use of condoms and PrEP, and being Undetectable = Untransmissible (U=U).
William Hampson, a London-based gay man in his forties living with HIV since March 2020, has launched a new campaign asking the government to end decades of HIV stigma by telling the public that U=U: Undetectable = Untransmittable.
In the New Year’s Honours, Ian Green, CEO of HIV/sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT), has received an OBE for services to charity and public health, while Lieutenant Commander Oliver Brown has been awarded an MBE in recognition of his work to overturn the outdated ban on HIV positive people joining the UK’s military.
The webinar is organised by Royal College of General Practitioners and sponsored by Terrence Higgins Trust
This year the theme of the charity’s parade group at Brighton Pride was tackling HIV stigma and the message that U=U. This means that someone with an undetectable HIV viral load (meaning they are on effective treatment that has completely suppressed the virus) cannot transmit the virus to their partner. Undetectable = Untransmittable!
