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Mental and emotional health
Help when you're troubled: getting the right psychological support

Gus Cairns looks at the new Standards for psychological support for adults living with HIV.

Published
13 October 2011
From
HIV treatment update
Social and legal issues
Is there life after death for HIV social care?

HIV specialist social care is in danger of vanishing altogether as a facet of social work in England. Despite improvements in health, changes in the make-up and

Published
17 June 2011
From
HIV treatment update
Ageing and HIV
Assisted Living with HIV: A New Reality as Treatments Improve

With HIV striking the aging population at an alarming rate and with survivors living beyond their expectancy, assisted living communities and skilled nursing facilities may begin to see an influx of HIV-positive residents.  Not only are these communities going to need to be prepared for the medical needs of such patients but also for the psycho-social needs of the aging survivors.

Published
06 June 2011
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Senior Homes
Money, benefits and housing
UK: Disabled people stage protest over spending cuts

Disabled people and their families have held a protest in central London against government spending cuts.

Published
12 May 2011
From
BBC
Mental and emotional health
A winter of discontent?

New year can be difficult, with pressure to keep resolutions, the cold return to work and, this year, warnings about austerity ahead. But midwinter can be the

Published
09 February 2011
From
HIV treatment update
Finding support
The beginning of change: the 2010 CHIVA summer camp

Following on from our issue looking at young people, in October, guest writer Bakita Kasadha talks to the organisers and participants in the UK’s summer camp for teenagers

Published
02 December 2010
From
HIV treatment update
Finding support
New UK government plans for social care

Speaking in Parliament yesterday the Secretary of State for Health (Mr Andrew Lansley) announced that he has laid before Parliament the Government's response to the Health Select Committee's report on social care.

Published
15 July 2010
From
Disability Alliance
Ageing and HIV
Will a long life be a good one?

People with HIV are now living into old age – an old age many regard with fear, as Lisa Power from the Terrence Higgins Trust finds

Published
01 July 2010
From
HIV treatment update
Finding support
The best of friends

Gus Cairns explores how friends can be good (and sometimes bad) for your health.

Published
03 December 2009
From
HIV treatment update
Religion and faith
Faith in the community

Religious faith is important to many Africans in the UK. Kerri Wells looks at the role religion plays in the lives of HIV-positive African people and the

Published
01 October 2009
From
HIV treatment update
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