By Calum Douglas Today is World Mental Health Day and this year’s theme - 'Mental Health in an Unequal World’ - is a fitting one. Like HIV, poor mental health can affect us all. Yet we know that its impact on different groups is...

By Cheryl Gowar In the UK, we are fast approaching the time when over half the population living with HIV will be over 50. The provision of care that responds to the needs of older people living with HIV will become an increasingly...

By Laura Waters During World Immunization Week one year ago, the question on everyone’s lips was when can we expect an effective COVID vaccine? Even the most optimistic of us could not have predicted that just 12 months later there...

By Kat Smithson, Director of Policy Beyond the number of people dying, COVID-19 compounds inequalities that lead to poorer health outcomes more widely. This week saw the publication of a PHE review that describes a disproportionate impact...

By Natasha Dhumma, Head of Policy & Campaigns, NAT On Friday it was revealed that Trevor Phillips had been appointed to a key role in the Government’s inquiry into BAME deaths as a result of COVID-19. The urgency of this inquiry cannot...

By Cheryl Gowar This is World Immunization Week. As the number of deaths worldwide from COVID-19 moves closer to 200,000 and it continues to upend all our lives the question on everyone’s mind is when will we have access to a vaccination that...

by Cheryl Gowar Last Friday, NAT launched a new policy briefing Providing coordinated care for people living with HIV . In my first blog I discussed some of the issues around integration and coordination of care for people living with HIV...

by Cheryl Gowar “People living with HIV aren't separating things into this is the diabetic doctor, this is the cardiologist... they have a series of issues and concerns and health problems and if there was a holistic ways of addressing...