A group of community organisations working on HIV prevention
have called for the NHS to speed up it processes and make pre-exposure
prophylaxis (PrEP) available to those at the highest risk of acquiring HIV. The
organisations point to the continued high rate of new infections and say there
is an urgent need to improve

The UK’s annual epidemiological report, released yesterday,
shows that the country already provides HIV treatment to 90% of people attending
clinical services and that 90% of those on treatment have an undetectable viral
load. But the country has a long way to go in ensuring that people with HIV
are aware of their HIV

Many young gay men consider ‘safer sex’ to be about more
than condom use, according to a qualitative study conducted in Scotland. Encouragingly,
many consider regular HIV testing to be a component of safer sex. More
problematically, condomless sex with a regular partner was described as being
relatively safe, even when there was little

While international rhetoric on HIV and AIDS frequently
invokes human rights, putting these ideas into practice in specific settings
remains challenging, according to a process evaluation of an intervention in
rural South Africa published in the October issue of Culture, Health and Sexuality. Although female health volunteers
understood gender inequalities to be a key

Men who have sex with men (MSM) living in London have
particularly poor sexual health and this is worsening, Public Health England
warn in a report published yesterday. The report calls on commissioners and
providers of sexual health services to focus on the needs of this group: “Improving
sexual health in MSM should be