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Recent achievements

NAT works tirelessly to bring about change through our policy and campaigning work. Here is just a snapshot of some of our recent successes.

  • After a seven year campaign we secured free HIV treatment in England for all who need it
  • We brought together a coalition of charities to end the use of pre-employment health questionnaires before the offer of a job is made, through the Equality Act 2010
  • We were instrumental in securing a review of the lifetime ban on gay men donating blood and sat on the SaBTO advisory committee which eventually announced a 12-month deferral period for gay men donating blood
  • We worked to make sure high standards of HIV care will be maintained in the new NHS system (with care commissioned nationally and late diagnosis included in the public health outcome framework)
  • We launched www.HIVaware.org.uk - the UK's most comprehensive website on HIV for the general public
  • We championed the rights of people living with HIV in the recent benefit reforms (bringing improvements to the forthcoming PIP assessment and currently working to improve the WCA assessment process)
  • We influenced UK Border Agency policy so that asylum seekers living with HIV who need help with accommodation will not routinely be ‘dispersed’ away from the area where they are attending an HIV clinic.
  • We successfully campaigned for a UK consensus statement from the two main HIV clinical bodies (BHIVA and EAGA) on HIV Treatment as Prevention - this at last provides an agreed basis for prescribing ARVs early to people with HIV in certain cases to reduce HIV transmission.  It also is key to removing some of the outdates and stigmatising barriers to people with HIV fully participating in work and social activity.

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