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“Have you heard of PrEP?” – This is how the public answered

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With just 20 per cent of people in the UK having heard of PrEP, GAY TIMES took to the streets of London to find out what the public knows about the HIV prevention drug. WORDS BY CONOR CLARK PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) is one of the most effective ways to prevent the spread of HIV, but knowledge of it still remains scarce outside of the LGBTQIA+ community. The drug reduces the risk of getting the virus from sex by 99 per cent when taken correctly, though findings from a YouGov poll last…

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UN’s Winnie Byanyima: ‘When countries criminalise LGBTQ+ people, they slow their progress against HIV’

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Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS, speaks to GAY TIMES about bringing the HIV/AIDS epidemic to an end by 2030. WORDS BY CONOR CLARK Governments all over the world have committed to bringing the HIV/AIDS epidemic to an end by 2030, something that would have seemed impossible mere decades ago. Now, the goal is within reach, but Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), tells GAY TIMES that “work still needs to be done” to make it a reality in the next seven years. “We…

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Baroness Liz Barker: ‘Why we can never rest on our laurels in the fight against HIV’

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This World AIDS Day, Baroness Liz Barker is pressuring the government to “fund” HIV/AIDS research and development “internationally”. WORDS BY PHILIP BALDWIN Baroness Liz Barker has been a member of the House of Lords since 1999. She is Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on HIV/AIDS and has been a longstanding campaigner for people living with HIV in the UK and globally. What are your thoughts on the majority of new HIV diagnoses now occurring within the straight population? The LGBTQIA+ community has been targeted with messaging for so…

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What impact has 20 years of US funding had on HIV/AIDS?

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In the 20 years since U.S. President George W. Bush launched the world’s biggest investment to fight HIV/AIDS, the fund has had a “dramatic and life-saving impact”, UNAIDS U.S. liaison office director Vinay Saldhana told Openly. The U.S. government says it has invested more than $110 billion through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and saved 25 million lives and prevented millions of HIV infections. But the programme is now under threat after Congress in October renewed its…

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HIV testing increased in “hugely significant” step towards finding undiagnosed cases

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The government has announced opt-out blood tests for HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C will be rolled out to a further 46 accident and emergency departments (A&E) across England. This is part of its pledge to eradicate new HIV cases in England by 2030. Ahead of a speech by Sir Elton John at an event in Parliament on 29 November, Victoria Atkins, Health Secretary, announced that the new £20 million programme would lead to earlier diagnosis and treatment. Opt-out blood testing has been trialled for 18 months within 34 A&Es…

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HIV diagnoses in heterosexuals overtake those in gay and bi men in Scotland

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New HIV diagnoses in heterosexual people are higher than in gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) in Scotland for the first time since 2007. According to Public Health Scotland, 42 per cent of all new HIV diagnoses were in heterosexual people last year, while 29 per cent were in GBMSM. “Levels of late diagnosis were also slightly elevated in heterosexuals, meaning damage to the immune system may have already begun 27% of those who acquired HIV through heterosexual sexual intercourse were diagnosed at a late/very…

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UK’s first named person to die from AIDS-related illness honoured with memorial quilt

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Terry Higgins, the UK’s first named person to die from AIDS-related illnesses, has been honoured with a memorial quilt four decades on from his death. He passed away at the age of 37 on 4 July 1982, sparking the creation of Terrence Higgins Trust which is now the country’s leading sexual health and HIV charity. Now, on 3 August, a memorial quilt paying tribute to him is to be revealed for the first time at The Festival of Quilts in Birmingham’s NEC. Making quilts to honour those lost to the…

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Kylie Minogue and Stephen Fry mark £1,000,000 raised for HIV advocacy with special donations

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Kylie Minogue and Stephen Fry have helped Terrence Higgins Trust mark a milestone £1,000,000 worth of donations raised via its charity shop. The UK’s largest HIV and sexual health charity has been raising money via Boutique in Pimlico, London for almost two decades to help it fight stigma surrounding the virus and support those living with it. To mark the momentous amount of money raised via the shop, Kylie has donated a limited edition watch, as well as a signed print of her ‘Step Back In Time’ album artwork to…

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