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The Home Office is failing people living with HIV in Immigration Removal Centre

04/08/2021


By Tamara Manuel

People held in immigration detention in the UK are entitled to the same level of healthcare...

Why migrants living with HIV must be part of the solution to improving HIV health outcomes among those born abroad

29/06/2021


By Charity Nyirenda

Migrants living with HIV must be involved in research and initiatives wanting to understand and...

Migrants living with HIV during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

09/04/2020

By Tamara Manuel

At National AIDS Trust we have long drawn attention to the barriers that migrants...

Tackling the shortfalls in HIV care in immigration detention

22/03/2019

NAT and BHIVA have today published new guidance to support HIV care in Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs).

This follows...

Chris Hicks

On World Health Day 2018 we demand that migrants have equal access to the NHS

06/04/2018

World Health Day, organised by the World Health Organisation, is a global awareness day celebrated on 7th April each year...

Yusef Azad

Our data isn't safe with the NHS - NHS Digital must be rebuilt

02/03/2018

Confidentiality of patient information is one of the most ancient and important principles of medicine. If doctors tell other people...

Sarah Radcliffe

The humanitarian crisis within our borders

23/09/2015

The plight of refugees has been a high profile issue in the news, on social media and in the streets...

Sarah Radcliffe

3 ways the UK asylum system fails people living with HIV

18/06/2015

In a special blog for Refugee Week, we reflect on how UK asylum policy has shaped – and sometimes undermined...

Sarah Radcliffe

Why NAT will still be walking at Pride

04/06/2015

Since the news that UKIP LGBT will be part of this year’s Pride parade, NAT has been asked whether we...

Sarah Radcliffe

Three reasons why Nigel Farage is wrong on HIV and immigration

10/10/2014

Like many people I was alarmed this morning to hear Nigel Farage’s comments to Newsweek and on the radio about...