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958Rebecca Tallon de Havilland reports on Project BootCamp and their Christmas Party at Ku Leicester Sq this week
Our new Transgender Affairs Editor Rebecca Tallon de Havilland also runs Project BootCamp out of 56 Dean Street and this week the...
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3.2KJonathan diagnosed in 1982: “It’s a terminal diagnosis, there is nothing that they can do for me and there will be palliative care. And I’m 33.”
Jonathan Blake is one of the country’s oldest surviving people with HIV. Jonathan, who is 70 this year, was the basis for...
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4.1KMatthew diagnosed in 1998: “When people say ‘How did you get HIV?’, the honest answer is I don’t know.”
Matthew Hodson is 52 and the executive director of NAM aidsmap, the charity which changes lives by sharing news and treatment information about...
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3.4KBack from the brink: Rebecca Tallon de Havilland on her life with HIV
Rebecca de Havilland has been living with HIV since the mid-1980s, including near-death experiences when she took herself off medication and sunk...
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2.7KIan diagnosed in 1998: “It has affected relationships – if you say you’re HIV positive they kind of run away…”
Ian Fincher is 44 and works in theatreland in the West End – and has a number of transdermal implants and piercings. “I was...
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695How METRO is keeping us healthy in every way
We caught up with METRO Charity’s José Mejía to find out how you can still get support across their sexual health, community,...
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2.8KFilippo diagnosed in 2011: “I was 20 years old and it felt like the world was crumbling beneath my feet.”
Filippo Gafaro Barrera is 28 and from Italy. He appears on Sky News as a guest commentator where he recently discussed being HIV positive and...
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2.9KNeil diagnosed in 2005: “I’d sort of written off a long-term partner as something that probably wouldn’t happen to me.”
Neil Currie is 45 and from Sheffield and works in computer technology. “After a one-night stand in 2005 I went to get...
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2.7KDavid Bridle diagnosed in 1994: “I realised, for the first time, that these drugs were actually working.”
David Bridle is managing editor of Boyz and has had HIV for over 25 years. Here he describes going on to combination...
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515forum+ invites you online to commemorate World AIDS Day 2020 on Tuesday 1st December
forum+ is proudly presenting an online event to commemorate World AIDS Day on Tuesday 1st December at 6.30 pm. The Camden and Islington...
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741Win Molly & Tommy’s red briefs and swimsuit plus an HIV Self Test from BioSure for World AIDS Day
To commemorate World AIDS Day 2020, Molly & Tommy men’s underwear brand have partnered with BioSure – the experts in HIV Self...
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1.3KPlease help UCL researchers and complete the ‘Your sex life since lockdown’ online survey
COVID-19, lockdown and social distancing have affected us all in so many ways, including our sex lives. Now health researchers are asking...
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1.4KNow is the perfect time to start PrEP, says Dr Alan McOwan from 56 Dean Street
Lockdown has provided us with a fantastic opportunity to beat HIV. In the last few months there’s been a lot less hooking...
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2.3KCoronavirus: Boyz Doc special by Dr Laura Waters from Mortimer Market Centre
The coronavirus pandemic is global news so is the focus for this month’s Boyz Doc column. Dr Laura Waters says please bear...
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2.4KBig fall in new cases of HIV in the UK for gay and bi men
Each month in Boyz the team from NAM aidsmap report the latest news on HIV and sexual health. Keep up to date...
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2.3KDr Laura Waters from Mortimer Market Centre on ‘Further drops reported in new HIV diagnoses’
The Boyz Doc, Dr Laura Waters from Mortimer Market Centre, reports this month on the latest good news on HIV diagnoses. We...
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6.1KWhy do gay men do chemsex?
Each month in Boyz the team from NAM aidsmap report the latest news on HIV and sexual health. Keep up to date...
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Dr Laura Waters from Mortimer Market Centre on ‘I’m finding myself quite depressed these days’
Dear Dr Laura, I’m 33 and I’ve got a good job and close friends but I’m increasingly finding myself quite depressed these...
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2.6KThe World AIDS Day Red Run hosted by Positive East: Saturday 30th November
Over £150,000 was raised for 35 HIV charities across the UK at the 10th annual World AIDS Day Red Run in Victoria...
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2.5KKu Bar Lisle Street – World AIDS Day Auction: Sunday 1st December
The team at Ku Bar on Lisle Street always make sure World AIDS Day is something special and this year’s auction was...
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Opening Times: Community responds to 56 Dean Street’s appeal
Christmas came early to 56 Dean Street. The clinic’s appeal to help young gay men who are unable to afford PrEP, and...
