Joint statement: We're calling for PrEP to be made more widely available
Joint statement: We're calling for PrEP to be made more widely available
Publication date
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Mental health services don’t have the necessary knowledge and understanding of HIV to support people living with HIV, 40 years after the first cases of HIV-related illnesses and deaths.
These are the findings of the new HIV and mental health report published today from the UK’s HIV rights charity National AIDS Trust[1].
Public Health England (PHE) has today released its latest report on HIV showing that the UK continues to make exceptional progress against the HIV epidemic.
NAT (National AIDS Trust) emphatically welcomes the Health and Social Care Select Committee report on drugs policy. The report highlights the current drugs-related deaths crisis, with 2,670 deaths in the UK last year – an increase of 16% from the previous year and the highest on record - and calls on the Government to implement radical and innovative solutions to prevent further avoidable deaths.
New data from PHE England released today shows continued falls in HIV diagnoses in 2018 but late diagnosis remains stubbornly high.
NAT (National AIDS Trust) welcomes the Health and Social Care Select Committee report on sexual health. The report highlights the ongoing funding crisis faced by sexual health services following public health cuts alongside unacceptable standards in service provision caused by a disjointed system.
The Committee has called for a new national strategy for sexual health and states that this must be backed up by clear quality standards and investment.
Deborah Gold, Chief Executive at NAT (National AIDS Trust) said:
NHS England announced today that whilst a doubling of places on the PrEP Impact Trial (proposed on January 23) will be implemented in all participating sexual health clinics outside London, local authority commissioners in London are still considering their response to the proposed additional places.
Injections, that could one day be an alternative to daily pills for people living with HIV, have been shown to be effective in maintaining viral supression, bringing them one step closer to market. Results from ATLAS and FLAIR studies were presented today at the 2019 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI).
The leaders of the main UK political parties have issued messages – mainly on video - of hope and solidarity for World AIDS Day, and outlined necessary steps for the future of fighting the HIV epidemic.
London, 28 November, 2018: A stunning video narrated by Stephen