No. I do not want to test for HIV in the “comfort of my home.” Maybe it is just me, maybe that feeling is just personal, my experience anecdotal, maybe I am just an exception, a snowflake; but it’s my choice, my voice and it is
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
In a recent BMJ Blog Dr Rupert Whitaker cast a critical eye on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for the prevention of HIV infection, questioning its role as a public health intervention. The piece is challenging and although it rightly emphasises the need for a carefully planned
Today’s announcement that all participants in the PROUD pilot study, which investigates a number of questions surrounding the use of PrEP by gay men, will be offered PrEP is both a source of relief and concern. Relief, because we knew that PrEP works before the
In part 1 I put forward some reflexions triggered by my reading of Lord Fowlers’ new book AIDS Don’t Die of Prejudice and ended with a somewhat depressing view on our ability to quell the HIV epidemic without a major shift in how we respond to