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”
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
The following passage is from an interview given by Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence party, to Newsweek. It triggered a fierce response from both those who oppose Farage’s stance on immigration and healthcare, but also from those who supports it, revealing the depth of 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
The participation and contribution of healthy human volunteers in clinical research is key to the successful development of new approaches to HIV prevention. But what is a “healthy volunteer”? The successful development of a HIV vaccine or of a New HIV Prevention Technology (NPT, such