Category: Advocacy & News
Commentary on healthcare, public policy, equality, stigma and current events affecting people living with HIV, kidney disease, disability and other long-term conditions. These articles combine evidence, lived experience and a call for better practice.
Fourteen Years Later: Ireland Is Finally Rethinking the War on Drugs
HIV Is Not a Political Football. Treatment Works. Full Stop.
Patient Autonomy and Safety Matter—Even Between Patients
🛑 PrEP Access in Ireland: A Public Health Promise Unfulfilled
Enhancing Safety and Peace of Mind: The Role of Cameras in the Dialysis Waiting Room
UK Aids memorials to be linked by national memorial website. London memorial due to be in Tottenham Court Road.
Zero Discrimination Day 2021 marked by launch of Media Reporting Guidelines
Reprioritisation of dialysis patients for the COVID-19 vaccine
The NHS and coronavirus
Hate Speech Public Consultation – Ireland
HIV self tests now available in North thanks to legal change
We Can. I can. Supporting #WorldCancerDay
Time for Equal Marriage in Gibraltar
Misinformation on HIV transmission from Mirror, MEN, and GMP
HIV criminalisation? More harm than good.
Politicians sometimes surprise me…
A vote for #BetterTogether is not a vote for more devolution… #indyref
When you hear of a cure for HIV from a church… get worried.
A statement from the Combined NI LGBT Communities…
A question of conscience… and printing
Response to my letter to Minister on HIV and Poverty.
Posted elsewhere: Well done Gibraltar! “More British than Finchley.”
HIV and Poverty – What is being done in Northern Ireland?
Slavery in our own time – disturbing phenomenon
Belfast Judge Rules Gay Blood Ban “Irrational”
Welfare reform: how will it affect me?
15 years after Matthew Shepard: so much achieved for gay rights, but so much more to do
First Minister wants to ‘move Northern Ireland forward’ – pity his colleague in Health department is set to take us backwards
Standing together in solidarity with our Russian LBGT brothers and sisters.
Ruins: Chronicle of an HIV witch-hunt
240 hours community service for HIV cure fraudster
If “Heterophobia” Were Real – via Buzzfeed
Irish figures reveal sharp increase in HIV among young gay men
Getting the message to schools…
Is the PSNI involved in a gay witch-hunt alongside colleagues in Manchester and Northumbria?
Standing up to the bully boys – well done @Naomi_Long
If there is stigma and prejudice in US prisons, what’s happening in Northern Ireland?