Author Armistead Maupin is a pioneer – writing about AIDS and HIV for a mass audience and daring to include gay, lesbian, trans and queer lives when few others were. His ‘Tales of the City’ series, which started as a newspaper column in 1974, became worldwide best-selling novels and a Netflix series. It chronicles the…
When the first cases of HIV broke out in the early eighties it was deemed a death sentence. Today life expectancy can be the same as the general population, and those on effective treatment can’t pass on the virus through sex. But the stigma remains, and older people can be particularly vulnerable. The Terrence Higgins…
An inquiry is to be held into the contaminated blood scandal that left at least 2,400 people dead. Theresa May said it would establish the causes of what she said was an “appalling injustice” that led to thousands of NHS patients given blood products infected with HIV and hepatitis C in the 70s and 80s.
Labour MP Diana Johnson, who has long campaigned for an inquiry into the blood contamination scandal, and Andy Evans, who was infected with HIV after being given contaminated blood when he was just five, discuss Theresa May’s announcement of an inquiry. He says full compensation would make survivors’ lives easier.
Addicts in Bucharest shoot up as many as 30 times a day. Paraic O’Brien went to meet the death metal drummer who is trying to stem Romania’s drugs and HIV epidemic.
Victoria Macdonald
There is talk at Melbourne’s International Aids Conference of ending Aids by 2030. But this requires the political will to help drug users and sex workers, rather than criminalising them.
Victoria Macdonald
Kick and kill is a rather brutal phrase for a scientific endeavour but it precisely describes attempts to seek out HIV and then destroy it.
Victoria Macdonald
There was a time when the word ‘cure’ was never used in relation to HIV. It was thought to be too elusive, too unachievable. But something changed in the past decade.
Victoria Macdonald
The president of the International Aids Society delivered a heartfelt statement on the loss of six delegates in the destruction of Flight MH17, writes Victoria Macdonald.
Victoria Macdonald
After years of disappointments and failures, scientists are again talking not just about vaccines but even a cure.
Victoria Macdonald
India manufactures one-fifth of the world’s generic drugs with about half sent abroad, largely to poorer countries. But a court case could threaten this supply of affordable medication to the developing world to treat conditions such as HIV and Aids.
Victoria Macdonald
Channel 4 News Health and Social Care Correspondent, Victoria Macdonald, blogs on Hillary Clinton’s pledge that the government is working towards an “Aids-free generation”.
Victoria Macdonald
The discussion is not necessarily of ‘total cure’ but a functional cure. That means finding a way that people can live still with the virus but no longer have to take anti-retrovirals drugs.
Victoria Macdonald
As President Obama pulls out of a major Aids conference in the US, Health and Social Care Correspondent Victoria Macdonald considers the impact.
Jon Snow
An overnight flight to Zambia. Haven’t been here in 20 years. Bigger, but still verdant green boulevards into town. Early morning bicycles laden with vast bags of charcoal struggle along the dust tracks at the roadside. I’m here for a conference, of which more in the next blog.