We want access for all who need PrEP – Equitable access to PrEP Now A community statement October 2020 PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) prevents people getting HIV and is almost 100% effective when taken as prescribed. It provides protection to the many people who continue to be vulnerable to HIV, both…

About HIV Scotland Since our formation in 1994, we have achieved a great deal. One historic breakthrough came in 2017 thanks to our campaign, when Scotland became the first UK nation to provide PrEP on the NHS; a drug proven to prevent HIV transmission. What We Do We work for…

Talking About HIV: The aim of this project is to educate the general public and increase awareness of HIV in Bristol and surrounding areas. The level of awareness of HIV has regressed in recent years and this means that people living with HIV continue to face stigma and discrimination which…

Enhanced Food & Nutrition Services for People Living with HIV in Crisis It was on Christmas Day in 1988 that The Food Chain delivered its first meal for people living with HIV – a home cooked Christmas dinner, with all the trimmings, made by volunteers in a borrowed kitchen and…

The Grass Is Always Grindr – Season 2: ‘The Grass Is Always Grindr’ is a web series developed to reinforce PRIME’s key risk reduction messages. It represents a new way of spreading education to our patients, and any men who have sex with men, about HIV,PrEP/PEP, apps, STIs, loneliness and…

Joyful Noise Choir is an inclusive, peer support group made up entirely of people living with HIV. It not only serves as a community for HIV-positive individuals, but as an uplifting and inspiring tool to help end the stigma associated with HIV. Joyful Noise Choir is open to anyone living…

“The MAD Trust has really made a difference for the Crescent. It has enabled us to supply a consistent counselling service to people who greatly need that service.” “Thanks to the MAD Trust, we at the Crescent can guarantee our vital counselling service for the whole of the next year.”…

Make a Difference Trust are supporting the costs of Waverley Care’s Financial Benefits Support Project (a part of Waverley Care’s Community Project). The Project helps people living with HIV and Hepatitis C in Edinburgh and the Lothians, and provides service users with finance and benefits advice and support from the…

CHIVA (Children’s HIV Association)

CHIVA is the Children’s HIV association of the UK and Ireland. It has been a UK registered charity since 2008. CHIVA works to address the affects of HIV on children and their families. Ensuring every child with HIV in the UK not only has the optimum health care provision, but…

The Positive? Awareness of and Attitudes to HIV in the UK project is the third phase of a three-part programme that sees the development and dissemination of a multi-media educational resource and campaign package for schools to promote HIV awareness and stigma reduction. The kit will be used as a…

Re:Assure Women’s Programme Re:Assure Women’s Project is a specialists programme that is targeted to, and tailored for, HIV positive women who are in crisis and have experienced, or are living in, environments of domestic violence, are survivors of abuse and severe trauma, e.g. rape and forced marriage and those who…

The Cara Trust was founded in 1988 by Father David Randall, following a sabbatical trip to San Francisco encouraged by his bishop at the time. As well as offering care to those directly affected, through its AIDS Ministry courses Cara helped to work out the radical implications of HIV for…

NAT is the UK’s leading charity dedicated to transforming society’s response to HIV. They provide fresh thinking, expertise and practical resources. They champion the rights of people living with HIV and campaign for change. Shaping Attitudes – Challenging Injustice – Changing Lives The case for HIV Support Services project is…

Africa Advocacy Foundation was established in 1996 to address increasing health inequality gaps within African communities in the UK and particularly to tackle increasing HIV/AIDS prevalence levels among Africans at a time of very low awareness levels, limited HIV treatment opportunities and widespread HIV stigma and discrimination. This is achieved…

NLTSG provides support to people in the UK who have been living with HIV and AIDS for five or more years. Founded in 1992 and incorporated as a charity in 1994, at a time when reaching five years with an HIV diagnosis was a significant milestone, the organisation remains as…

New app created by experts at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to support people living with HIV BeYou+ is an innovative new mobile app providing specific, reliable and accessible information for people living with HIV, to support self-management, quality of life and well-being. BeYou+ enables users to focus…

Liverpool Community Collaborative: Make a Difference Trust enables the creation of an innovative partnership project in Liverpool. The Make a Difference Trust has contributed to the funding of an incredibly exciting new project to take collaboration between specialist HIV community nurses and the voluntary sector to a new level. In…

The Food Chain exists to ensure that people living with HIV in London can access the nutrition they need to get well, stay well and lead healthy independent lives. They reduce barriers to good nutrition and they address broader issues of poverty, ill-health and social isolation experienced by many people…

ADDINGTON AFRO-ETHNIC HEALTH PROMOTION GROUP (AAEGRO) We are an independent community-focused HIV group that builds awareness of HIV and provides support services for people living with HIV. We provide information and support services to African Refugees and Asylum Seekers. Our services include information on health, referrals to social services and…