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UK CONFERENCE FOR PLWHIV ANNOUNCED

11 August 2011

POSITIVELY UK have announced that the next conference for people living with HIV in the UK will take place on 24th September 2011. The one day conference titled ‘No Decision About Me without Me’ will be coordinated by Positively UK and run in partnership with HIV charities NAT and the THT. The conference objective is [...]

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From À la carte to set menu: A NEW prescribing regime for London by Nathan

09 May 2011

London HIV clinics are about to embark on a new approach to prescribing Antiretroviral drugs (ARV’s) that will last for at least two years The government has given NHS managers the job of saving a lot of money, fast! So they are doing what they can to comply, this process is euphemistically called making ‘efficiency [...]

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Backpacking in Australia January 2011

13 April 2011

Despite the devastating floods that affected Queensland and parts of northern New South Wales, Victoria and north-eastern Tasmania…I had a wonderful time on my trip to Australia. Of course…the flooding resulted in my having constantly to change plans…so I didn’t get to see the Great Barrier Reef, Melbourne or the Great Ocean Road. Good enough [...]

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Medicare and HIV support ‘down under’ an insight by Maurice Greenham

20 March 2011

PERHAPS the major difference between Australia and the UK is that patients have to pay for their HIV medication. Roughly, if you are unwaged and on Medicare you pay $5.40 (£3.40) per item and if you are in full time employment you have to pay up to $33.30 (about £21) per item. Medicare is Australia’s [...]

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ACET in funding crisis after government cuts

19 March 2011

ACET, Jersey’s only charity dedicated to HIV social care, prevention and education faces a service delivery crisis after the islands government announce budget cuts. HIV prevention and social care services will disappear, as the charity is forced to make staff redundant, putting a question mark over the charities ability to survive in the long-term, if [...]

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HIV conference ‘Positively Together’ Mark Platt reports

01 March 2011

LAST Wednesday saw probably the last local authority sponsored HIV conference, ‘Positively Together’. Organised by the Sheffield Centre for sexual Health, the overwhelming mood of the event was of the need to be positive in the face of an uncertain future. Unfortunately the headline speaker, Baroness Joyce Gould, was prevented from attending by illness, and [...]

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John…It’s time to make a stand and fight for our charities

28 February 2011

As councils across the country ratify budgets laden with cuts to services and jobs. Swathes of pensioners, mums and dads students and youngsters started to interrupt the process, making sure that those in power ‘NOW’ knew, in no uncertain terms, the outrage of the general populous. It was a good sight to see. But what [...]

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NAT’s MORI: reveals a decline in knowledge & understanding of HIV

28 February 2011

A NEW survey launched by NAT (National AIDS Trust) has found that large numbers of the British public are confused about HIV transmission and that misconceptions about the HIV still exist. But encouragingly 70% understand that someone becoming infected with HIV in the UK is unlikely to die within three years and 74% say that people [...]

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1000’s of HIV-positive people have Hep-C and don’t know it

27 February 2011

A REPORT published in the Journal of Viral Hepatitis says 13,000 people who are living with HIV in the UK may also have Hepatitis C but not realise it. This represents nearly 70% of the total estimate of people with HIV and Hep C in the UK. The report is based on a study by the [...]

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Max…Starting ARV’s: First Pills, First Night Part 2

27 February 2011

I am taking three types of drugs at the moment in two pill formats, one is Sustiva which is my Efavirenz and the other is Truvada which is a combination of both Emtricitabine and Tenofovir. They are not bad sized pills and quite easy to swallow so taking them is not a problem. Well, I [...]

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