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Yusef Azad

National HIV prevention - grateful for small mercies?

22/07/2016

Some readers will recall the campaign NAT led at the end of 2014 to prevent national HIV prevention spending being...

Yusef Azad

PrEP: Further delay, further HIV transmissions

10/06/2016

NAT responds to the Government announcement of a NICE Evidence review on PrEP

Kat Smithson

LGBT young people are saying #WeExist in sex education

21/04/2016

In early 2015 we wrote to David Cameron ahead of the General Election to ask his party to support statutory...

Sarah Radcliffe

What does the PrEP decision mean for heterosexuals?

01/04/2016

In March, NHS England announced it was pulling the plug on an 18 month process to decide whether or not...

Yusef Azad

PrEP - What went wrong? What should happen?

22/03/2016

Rarely has a u-turn, rarely has a breach of trust, been so misleadingly announced. Reading NHS England’s press release, ‘Update...

Daniel

A ‘formula for success’ to support mothers living with HIV

08/03/2016

Reducing new HIV infections has been a priority in the UK ever since the epidemic’s outbreak. It’s taken so seriously...

Suzi Price

Setback in the battle for SRE

23/02/2016

Yesterday, Nicky Morgan, the Secretary of State for Education, wrote a letter to fellow conservative MP, Neil Carmichael, outlining why...

Yusef Azad

Part 2: National HIV Prevention: Where's the £1.2m?

18/01/2016

In my last blog I welcomed PHE’s new tender for a national HIV prevention programme. The annual value of the...

Yusef Azad

National HIV Prevention: Hurray for the £1.2 million

14/01/2016

Part One. Just before the Christmas holidays Public Health England (PHE) released their tender documentation for a new national HIV...

Ben Lineberger

World-leading on treatment, trailing on prevention – what the new HIV stats tell us

05/11/2015

Recently-released official statistics show that last year, there were just over 85,000 people accessing HIV treatment and care in the...