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Conception
"How are we going to have a baby? I’m positive and you’re not"

Joanna Moss of the African Health Policy Network (AHPN) looks at conception and fertility guidelines and services for people living with HIV in the UK.

Published
22 October 2012
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HIV treatment update
HIV treatment
The generic generation

In the next few years, some of the most widely used HIV drugs will come off patent in the UK. Gus Cairns asks: what are the

Published
22 October 2012
From
HIV treatment update
Ageing and HIV
A healthy – and happy – old age with HIV

At least one–in-five people with HIV in the UK is now over 50.1 Gus Cairns asks: What’s the recipe for staying fit and happy as we age?

Published
22 October 2012
From
HIV treatment update
UK health services
Sexual healthcare 'at risk from NHS changes'

Many NHS services are being put out to tender - and private companies can bid. Dr Steve Taylor, a sexual health and HIV specialist from Birmingham Heartlands Hospital and Dan Hartland from the HIV awareness charity Saving Lives warn there are unique dangers in allowing them to run sexual healthcare.

Published
19 October 2012
From
BBC
Finding support
UK government ends funding for HIV-specific phone helplines

The Department of Health has ended its support for the telephone helplines operated by Terrence Higgins Trust, Black Health Agency, fpa and Brook, with funding

Published
04 October 2012
By
Roger Pebody
UK health services
Local authority commissioning public health services from primary care

Please find below a document to support your understanding of the Contract Transition process for public health services and some 'Frequently Asked Questions'. Please note this document does not provide mandatory guidance or set new policy but interprets existing guidance and David Flory communications into a hopefully understandable narrative for public health and Local Authorities.

Published
04 October 2012
From
Department of Health
UK health services
Hundreds of contracts signed in 'biggest ever act of NHS privatisation'

Contracts for almost 400 NHS services, worth a quarter of billion pounds, were signed this week resulting in the "biggest act of privatisation ever seen in the NHS", Labour's health spokesman Andy Burnham has said. Burnham pointed out that non-emergency ambulance services in the north-west would soon be run by the bus group Arriva and that Lancashire county council had awarded the contract to run patient advocacy groups to a private firm, Parkwood Healthcare.

Published
03 October 2012
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The Guardian
Health services and systems
New guidance to support organisations to deliver peer support for people with long term conditions

Organisations delivering or planning to deliver peer support for people with long term conditions will be able to find out more about its benefits and good practice thanks to a new guidance by the Mental Health Foundation Peer Support in Long Term Conditions: the Basics.

Published
01 October 2012
From
Mental Health Foundation
Access to medicines and treatment
From today, HIV treatment is free for all who need it in England

The removal of charges for undocumented migrants and non-UK citizens accessing HIV treatment and care in England comes into effect today. From now on, HIV treatment will be

Published
01 October 2012
By
Roger Pebody
UK health services
Public Health England national leadership and funding for drug and alcohol services

Removal of ‘ring-fencing’ from the drug budget, the shift of responsibilities from the National Treatment Agency (NTA) to the new public health structures and a more localised approach to service provision is likely to result in the long term disinvestment in drug and alcohol services.

Published
26 September 2012
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Blenheim CDP
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