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UKHSA highlights further HIV progress needed among heterosexual women

Graham Robson March 8, 2024

More awareness is needed to encourage women to take up HIV testing amid slow progress in tackling transmission, the UK Health Security Agency’s (UKHSA) Chief Medical Adviser has warned today. Despite a significant fall in cases among gay and bisexual men between 2019 and 2022, heterosexual groups are not following the same trajectory. Since 2021, […]

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To mark National HIV Testing Week, Andrea Leadsom and Angela Rayner join 40 MPs testing for HIV

Graham Robson February 10, 2024

Health Minister Andrea Leadsom MP, Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner MP and 40 other MPs have tested for HIV to show how quick and easy it is and encourage others to do the same during National HIV Testing Week (until 11 February). A host of cross-party MPs got tested including Health Minister Andrew Stephenson, Equalities […]

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Heterosexual HIV testing still behind pre-Covid levels, as National HIV Testing Week starts in England

Graham Robson February 5, 2024

HIV testing rates among heterosexual men and women are down by a quarter compared to before the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the latest data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). This comes as National HIV Testing Week starts today (February 5) with free at-home test kits available to anyone in England as part of […]

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