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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...

Kat Smithson

Testing perpetrators of assault for diseases like HIV is pointless and harmful

02/02/2018

A new Private Member’s Bill is attracting widespread attention and support, including a moving feature on BBC’s The...

Rosalie

Calling all teachers! Schools resources for World AIDS Day 2017 now available.

10/10/2017

Our World AIDS Day resources are great tools to help you educate your students about HIV on December 1st....

Deborah Gold

Diana & HIV: we remember our patron 20 years on

31/08/2017

One year before she died, in the summer of 1996, Diana, Princess of Wales, resigned from almost 100 charities of...

Rosalie

Better, but not good enough: access to financial products for people with HIV

25/07/2017

From the 1980s up until the early 2000s, it was nearly impossible for someone living with HIV to access insurance...

Sarah Radcliffe

PIP: Promoting independence?

21/07/2017

Ever since the abolition of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) was announced, we at NAT have heard a lot of anxiety...

Chris Hicks

The new drugs strategy: does it go far enough?

21/07/2017

Last week the Government published the 2017 Drugs Strategy, the first national drugs strategy since 2010. The previous drug strategy...

Kat Smithson

Don’t quit while ahead but invest to build on HIV prevention successes

03/07/2017

In two years, investment in community based HIV prevention decreased by over a third in London. This coincided with significant...

Yusef Azad

The ‘HIV Panic’ Attack – from prosecution to persecution

20/06/2017

Last month newspapers reported the trial and conviction of a man who had gone berserk in a Manchester hotel, during...