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”
Latest UNAIDS report shows that 35 million people are living with HIV in 2013. Since the start of the epidemic, around 78 million people have been infected with the virus that causes AIDS and 39 million people have died of AIDS-related illnesses. In the UK alone,
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
A reflexion on Lord Fowlers’ AIDS Don’t Die of Prejudice. Whilst looking for an opening sentence for this musing, I wondered who could be interested in Lord Fowler’s book on Aids in the year 2014. I checked the Amazon website and found that Fowler’s travelogue was ranked