By Victoria Grandsoult 1 , Jenny Vaughan 2 , Kat Smithson 3 , Cristina Bernardo 1 , Ricardo Baptista Leite 1 The launching of the 2014 Paris Declaration on Fast-Track Cities (FTC) initiative [1] established a global network of more than...

This blog was originally published on HuffPost . It is seven years since PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) – the drug taken by HIV-negative people that prevents HIV acquisition – was licensed for use in the USA. It is three years since NAT...

80 organisations from across the health sector have issued a consensus statement telling the Government to fund public health (or #fundpublichealth if we’re on twitter). Since the publication of the Five Year Forward View, there has been fundamental...

In November Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, called the additional £20.5bn announced for the NHS a “unique opportunity to radically change the focus of health and social care onto prevention”. [1] But unfortunately,...

Do we have PrEP in England? Well, yes and no. We have the PrEP Impact trial which currently has 10,000 places available for PrEP in sexual health clinics across the country. The study is being paid for by NHS England, which is a great step forward...

Our World AIDS Day resources are great tools to help you educate your students about HIV on December 1st. And they’re completely free! 2017 has been a year of breakthroughs for HIV in the UK. Our victory in court helped pave the way for a game-...

In two years, investment in community based HIV prevention decreased by over a third in London. This coincided with significant Government cuts to the public health grant. In the same period, there has been reduction in HIV diagnoses amongst MSM in...

One argument you see amongst those critical or worried about the introduction of PrEP is that it will result in big increases in STIs as gay and bisexual men (and indeed others at risk of HIV) throw away their condoms. But does the evidence support...

HIV prevention strategies for women used to be as simple as ABC. Abstain. Be faithful. Condom use. Fortunately this retro paternalistic approach fell out of favour by the mid 2000s. It became apparent much more was needed than simplistic behavioural change messages. Jump forward 10 years and PrEP (Pre Exposure Prophylaxis) a highly effective “game changer” comes along. Women should get excited right? Well, perhaps not – it’s not yet clear if we’ll get our hands on it.

Last week nearly 1500 people wrote to the Minister for Public Health, Jane Ellison, successfully gaining a reversal of the decision to cut the national HIV prevention programme by 50%.