PrEP has arrived… in France! Marisol Touraine, the French Health Minister announced today that the drug Truvada (manufactured by Gilead) is soon to be approved for the prevention of HIV infection (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) . “I welcome the publication a temporary recommendation of use of Truvada, a
Written in February 2015, an edited version of this blog was published in the Spring Issue of Baseline magazine. In the UK, 6,000 people were newly diagnosed with HIV in 2013, down from the 7,890 peak in 2005. This decrease masks an evolving epidemic with
This post has an update following the decision of the London LGBT pride organisers to cancelled UKIP presence during the event. We live in the most bizarre of times when a political organisation that has been involved in “a bewilderingly long list of homophobic scandals”
VANGARDIST, the “progressive men magazine” which “clustered a new Audience of fearless and adventurous but always style concious men of all ages” (sic) made the headline by printing its May issue using ink made of the blood of HIV positive people to allegedly fight social
Following the legalisation of HIV home testing in the UK, it will have taken just over a year for the first HIV self-testing kit to become available. The announcement came with the usual hopeful optimism and belief that self testing will make a key contribution