Who we are

We are one of the world’s leading sources of independent, accurate and reliable information on HIV and AIDS.

Our team

We are a small team of eight staff members and several freelance consultants, with a broad range of skills, expertise and experience.

We are committed to bringing clear and accurate information on HIV and AIDS to those who need it and are passionate about listening to the people who use our materials to ensure they continue to be relevant, accessible and useful.

Please feel free to contact us if you have a query or would like any further information.

Staff team

Matthew Hodson Executive Director

Matthew joined NAM in 2016 as Executive Director. He is responsible for leading the organisation and ensuring it is effective in realising its mission. He works closely with the charity's trustees to shape NAM's strategic goals and oversee their implementation. He is also responsible for making sure NAM has the resources necessary to enable it to achieve its objectives. Previously Matthew was Chief Executive at GMFA, the gay men’s health charity. In 2017 Matthew was named overall winner of the Social CEO awards and in 2020 he was on the Pride Power List of the most influential LGBTQI people in the UK and won Best Twitter at the WEGO Health Awards. Twitter: @matthew_hodson

Roger Pebody Managing Editor

Roger joined NAM in 2008 as an Editor and became Managing Editor in 2018. He is responsible for co-ordinating the editorial content of aidsmap.com, including news coverage and patient information materials. His involvement in HIV work began at Gay Men Fighting AIDS in the mid-1990s. Twitter: @RogerPebody

Abbey Stanford HIV Information Editor

Abbey joined NAM as an HIV Information Editor in 2022. She helps to make sure that NAM’s information resources are up to date, including the About HIV pages and printed materials. Before joining NAM, Abbey worked as a Specialist Health Editor for Bupa creating and reviewing patient information, as well as leading on health literacy. She has a background in clinical nutrition and previously worked as a nutrition writer.

Amelia Jones Website Editorial Manager

Amelia joined NAM in July 2015 as Web Editor Intern and became Website Editor in 2016 then Website Editorial Manager in 2018. Her role involves managing the web content for aidsmap.com, email bulletins and social media. Amelia also manages the production process for NAM’s resources and works on the delivery of news reporting, bulletins and translations from conferences.

Susan Cole Community Engagement, Marketing and Membership Manager

Susan joined NAM in 2018. She leads our community engagement and broadcasting activities, including producing and hosting our award-winning series aidsmapLIVE. She helps empower people from diverse communities living with HIV with NAM's accurate and accessible information. She is also responsible for managing NAM's Patient Information Subscription Scheme. She has advocated for people with HIV for two decades through activism, writing and public speaking. She was awarded 'Woman of the Year' at the last NAZ nOSCARS ceremony for her work with people of colour with HIV and has been named as one of the top Black HIV activists in the UK. Twitter: @susancolehaley

Beth Tunnicliffe Head of Design

Beth joined NAM in 2018. Beth is responsible for the design of NAM's website aidsmap.com and all the printed and digital content NAM produces. In 2019, she redesigned the aidsmap website.

Jeremy Cohen Business Manager

Jeremy joined NAM in September 1998. He manages NAM’s internal systems including finance, IT and premises. Jeremy’s role is to make sure that the office runs smoothly and efficiently. Jeremy has recently conducted a major review exercise of all our income and expenditure to help inform our strategy planning cycle.

Laura Jardine Fundraising and Development Manager

Laura joined NAM in January 2023. She is responsible for securing and building income from new and existing donors and works with pharmaceutical companies, grant-making trusts and individual supporters. She is also establishing additional opportunities for funding and supports NAM’s activities by identifying and developing suitable sources of income.

Freelance consultants

Keith Alcorn

Keith joined NAM’s staff team in 1991 and was our Senior Editor until 2018. He currently contributes news and conference reporting to aidsmap.com and edits infohep.org, our website covering hepatitis treatment news.

Gus Cairns

Gus joined NAM's editorial team in 2009 and previously edited HIV Treatment Update and Preventing HIV. Twitter: @guscairns

Liz Highleyman

Liz is a medical writer and editor with interests in HIV, hepatitis and cancer. She has contributed conference news reporting for NAM since 2004. Twitter: @LizHighleyman

Tom Paterson Web Developer

Tom has worked with NAM since 2002. He is responsible for developing our websites and digital products, including aidsmap.com, infohep.org, and prepineurope.org. He also works with partner organisations to support and enhance their digital capacity.

Sylvie Beaumont

Sylvie keeps our listings of HIV services up to date as well as providing our French translations.

Greta Hughson

Greta edits our quarterly EUROBulletin on sexual health and HIV policy in Europe and provides editorial support during major conferences. Twitter: @gretahughson

 

 

Carole Leach-Lemens

Carole is an editor and writer with over 25 years’ experience in the field of HIV/AIDS at the planning, management and direct service levels with experience in sub-Saharan Africa and a specialism in maternal and child health. She has consulted for Comic Relief, John Snow Inc., UNICEF and other organisations. Carole holds a Master of Public Health and has been writing news for aidsmap since 2009.

Krishen Samuel

Krishen is working on his PhD in Public Health in the US. He is originally from South Africa and obtained a Master's degree in Global Public Health and Policy in London. Krishen is passionate about advocating for the inclusion and equality of people living with HIV globally. He is particularly focused on the social determinants of health in relation to HIV. Twitter: @krishensamuel

Alain Volny-Anne

Alain has been an HIV/AIDS treatment activist since the 1990s. He contributed to the creation of the French Community Advisory Board, has developed treatment counselling programmes for members of key populations, and represented the community on expert committees, advisory boards and conference committees in France and internationally. He is a member of the European Community Advisory Board, also writes for Sidaction and is a scientific translator.

Bakita Kasadha

Bakita is an NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford. She previously worked on the HIV and infant study Nourish-UK led by the University of Oxford. Bakita is also a poet. She uses creative methods in health research and as a tool for advocacy. She first joined our Emerging Voices programme in 2019. Twitter: @Bakitakk

Mariah Wilberg

Mariah is a nationally recognised, award-winning writer, motivational speaker, and public health professional from the United States. Motivated by her lived experience with HIV and incarceration, she is passionate about bridging the gap between systems and those they serve through accessible education, research, governance, and policy and decision-making. Mariah’s current role focuses on increasing awareness of Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) in the US. Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/mariahwilberg/

Rosalie Hayes

Rosalie is a Research Assistant for the SHARE Collaborative based at Queen Mary University of London. Her current research is exploring the delivery of long-acting injectable HIV treatment, the experiences of healthcare workers and different communities during the 2022 MPOX outbreak, and optimal methods for community engagement. Rosalie previously worked as Senior Policy & Campaigns Officer at the National AIDS Trust, and is a strong believer in producing research that is useful for advocacy and activism. Rosalie first joined our Emerging Voices programme in 2020. Twitter: @rahayes92

Laura López González

Laura is an award-winning independent journalist who has covered HIV in sub-Saharan Africa for nearly 20 years. She has headed up more than half of South Africa's health news services. Previously, her research on global health financing for the Open Society Foundations helped shape processes at the Global Fund. Laura’s work often focuses on inequality and access to medicines. Twitter: @LLopezGonzalez

Edith Magak

Edith is a writer and journalist. Through her writings, she advocates for women, people with HIV, and other minoritised groups. Coming from the highest HIV prevalent community in Kenya, she is passionate about equitable access to HIV testing, prevention, and treatment in marginalised populations. Edith first joined our Emerging Voices programme in 2021. Twitter: @oedithknight

Andy Carstens

Andy is a freelance science journalist based in Denver in the United States with a master’s in science writing from Johns Hopkins University. In addition to his work at aidsmap.com, Andy’s writing has appeared at The Scientist, Audubon, Slate, and Them. Andy first joined our Emerging Voices programme in  2021. Twitter: @Andy_Carstens

Dr Dana Rosenfeld

Dana Rosenfeld, PhD, is a medical sociologist and social gerontologist specialising in ageing and the life course and in the lived experience of chronic illness. She has published widely on LGBTQ ageing and on ageing with HIV. She was Principal Investigator on the HIV and Later Life project, funded by the UK’s Medical Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council.

Our translation partners include gTt (Grupo de Trabajo sobre Tratamientos del VIH, Spanish), GAT (Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos, Portuguese), LILA (Lega Italiana per la Lotta contro l'Aids, Italian), Stanislav Kazikin (Russian) and Sylvie Beaumont (French).

Our Emerging Voices

Our Emerging Voices programme gives new writers opportunities to develop their skills in a professional and supportive environment, enabling them to gain experience and access employment opportunities within the fields of journalism, public health or scientific reporting. Our Emerging Voices write, update and edit information and articles on aidsmap, including news articles, email bulletins, factsheets and other web pages while receiving coaching and support from NAM's editors.

Our current Emerging Voices are listed below.

Oğuzhan Nuh

Oğuzhan (Ozla) is a queer HIV activist and health services researcher from Turkey. As an openly gay man living with HIV, he works with and supports people from marginalised communities and those living with or affected by HIV. He holds an MSc in Health Sciences from the University of Luzern in Switzerland. Ozla is also a Youth Ambassador and an Advocacy for Cure fellow for the International AIDS Society. Instagram: @ozlanuh

Bobby Ramakant

Bobby is part of Citizen News Service (CNS), a citizen journalism initiative focused on health and science. He writes on HIV prevention research, TB science, HIV and TB related issues, non-communicable diseases and other related issues. He has a BSc from Lucknow University (India), dropped out from Master of Journalism and Mass Communications course, and completed a certificate course from the Academy of Literary Arts and Publishing (Singapore) in editing. He was earlier part of SEA-AIDS and Stop-TB eForum moderation teams and was Key Correspondent with Health and Development Networks (HDN) till 2008. Twitter: @bobbyramakant

Shobha Shukla

Shobha is the founding Managing Editor at Citizen News Service (CNS), a citizen journalism initiative focused on health and science, and Coordinator of APCAT Media (Asia Pacific Media Network to end TB & tobacco and prevent NCDs). She has written extensively on HIV, TB (including HIV and TB science), non-communicable diseases, ageing, and gender among other issues. She did her Masters in statistics at Lucknow University in India and certificate course in copy and structural editing from the Academy of Literacy Arts and Publishing in Singapore. She received IAS 2019 HIV Science Journalism Fellowship, HIV Prevention Research Journalism Fellowship 2018, and the AIDS Society of India’s Presidential Award 2019. Twitter: @shobha1shukla

 

 

Paul Clift

Paul has been an activist in HIV since the early 1990s. He has represented the community on many boards and committees with the British HIV Association and NHS England. He is an advisory board member of several research projects related to HIV and also to LGBT experiences of illness and bereavement. He is a long-standing member of the UK Community Advisory Board and an active member of the European AIDS Treatment Group.

Mercy Shibemba

Mercy is an award-winning activist and advocate for children and young people living with HIV. Sharing her story of growing up with HIV to educate, challenge and inspire. She works on youth engagement and participation across clinical trials, research and charities that support young people. She is also the Chair of The Social Innovation Partnership. Twitter: @mercyshibemba

Felicia Bamgbose

Felicia is a medical doctor working in East London with a special interest in HIV and Sexual Health. She has worked in Clinical Research for HIV prevention and volunteered with organisations like Africa Advocacy and Positive East to improve HIV knowledge and testing. Her particular focus is around trying to reduce the stigma associated with HIV through better education.

José Carlos Mejía Asserias

José is a researcher, facilitator and project manager working in HIV and mental health in London. His practice centres on peer support, lived experience and community development. Alongside public bodies and community organisations, José has developed and implemented projects with migrants, LGBT and indigenous communities in the UK, Brazil and Colombia. José has degrees in communication studies and innovation management. Twitter: @aliasCHEPE

Alasdair Sinclair

Alasdair qualified from medical school in 2015. Having spent time working in Australia, Uganda and Tanzania, he is now working as an Internal Medicine Trainee at University College London Hospital. His interest in HIV comes from lived experience both professionally and personally. He has an interest in making sure scientific and societal breakthroughs in HIV medicine are communicated in a relatable context to those affected.

Florence Riako Anam

Florence Riako Anam is Programme Manager for Love Alliance at GNP+ and leads GNP+ advocacy on paediatric HIV treatment and care, based in Nairobi, Kenya. She is a seasoned HIV and SRHR (Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights) advocate with over ten years’ experience in programme management, advocacy, policy and communication for health and social development. Florence has previously worked at Médecins Sans Frontières and the International Community of Women Living with HIV.

Zekerie Redzheb

Zekerie is a master’s student in virology, a researcher in antiviral treatment and immunotherapy at Sofia University, and tutors general and molecular biology. He has a vested interest in pandemic viruses and pathogen-host interactions. He is particularly interested in HIV cure research, treatment and management as well as environmental and socicultural influences on the wellbeing of people living with HIV. He holds a joint bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences and English Literature. Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/zekerie-redzheb

Beau Newham

Beau is an activist and advocate who works at the intersections of LGBTIQ+ activism and HIV advocacy and support with a focus on memory activism, community building and storytelling. He has worked in Australia, Malaysia and Indonesia, and is the co-founder of the Queer Indonesia Archive. He currently works at Living Positive Victoria and National Association of People with HIV in Australia.

Our trustees

NAM is one of the world’s foremost providers of information on HIV and AIDS. Our information is aimed at two main audiences: people living with HIV; and professionals working in the field such as doctors, other healthcare workers, community advocates and HIV organisation staff and volunteers.

NAM’s trustees play a crucial role in advancing the charity’s purposes, overseeing the organisation’s strategic direction and protecting its assets and interests.

NAM's board of trustees uses its wide range of experience, specialisms and interests to provide strategic leadership for the charity. The board includes individuals living with HIV and several trustees have considerable experience within the sector. The trustees intend that the board should collectively provide a mix of skills, experience, qualities and knowledge to enable NAM to respond effectively to the challenges and opportunities faced by the organisation and, in line with NAM's mission, to ensure the organisation remains rooted in the experience of those most affected by HIV and AIDS. The trustees receive no remuneration for their work with NAM.

Tom Abell Chair

Tom is Chief Executive of the East of England Ambulance Service and has worked in a variety of commissioning and provider roles across the NHS. He is particularly interested in NAM's information services for people living with HIV. Tom is a qualified accountant, and joined the Trustees in 2019, becoming Chair in 2022. Twitter: @heytomabell

Brian Cooper Vice Chair

Brian is a former International Editor at NAM and a trustee since 1998. His background is in commercial publishing, education, television and film, as Marketing Manager for Scholastic, a Creative Agent for The Royal Opera House and as an independent film producer. He also has many years' experience as a technical and creative consultant, as a translator with a medical specialisation and as a creative producer with youth projects. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Julia Reidy Treasurer

Julia has been a qualified accountant since 2001 and has over 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry. Julia has been involved in fundraising and charitable activities within her work environment and became trustee treasurer of NAM in 2019.

Dr Sanjay Bhagani

Sanjay is a consultant physician and senior lecturer in infectious diseases and HIV medicine at London’s Royal Free Hospital. He has a special focus on the management of complex HIV infection, including difficult opportunistic infections as well as on the management of viral hepatitis in people with HIV. He is chair of the British HIV Association’s Hepatitis Society. Sanjay is particularly interested in NAM’s new stream of work around viral hepatitis, which includes aidsmap’s sister website www.infohep.org.

Mark Lewis

Mark has been living with HIV since 2018. They are originally from west Wales and a native Welsh speaker. Mark is the Senior Policy Advisor for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on HIV & AIDS in Westminster. They are also Head of Creative Services for International Gay Rugby (IGR). They have 20 years of parliamentary and public affairs experience after working in the private, public and charity sector. Previously a Community Councillor in Carmarthenshire, they also worked for Terrence Higgins Trust as a Campaigns & Parliamentary Affairs Officer. Twitter: @CHARLIEBACH

Julianne Lwanga

Julianne trained in Uganda at a time before antiretroviral therapy (ART) was available there. She has since trained and worked in obstetrics and gynaecology, genitourinary medicine and contraception in the UK and is currently specialising in HIV care and research at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital. She is interested in HIV prevention and cure research and in the involvement of black and ethnic minority women in research as well as how to reach out more to them and other communities that may find it harder to access HIV care services. Other (future) interests are in education particularly of medical and nursing students in Africa.

Iwan Roberts

Iwan is a chartered HR professional currently working in the sports and gaming industry. With over 15 years experience in human resources and operations, Iwan has held various senior HR roles with Global FTSE/NASDAQ organisations and is a Fellow of the UK, Hong Kong and Australian HR professional bodies. Iwan became a trustee with NAM in 2023.

Jason Schroen

Jason is a dual qualified solicitor (Australia/England & Wales) and an experienced data protection professional being initiated as a Fellow at the International Association of Privacy Professionals in 2022. Jason has served as a Trustee at NAM since 2017.

Our funders

NAM works hard to make sure it receives its income from a wide range of sources so it does not rely too heavily on any one funder. This includes individuals, trusts and foundations, companies, international agencies and government. This means we can be confident that our future will not be jeopardised by a funder unexpectedly withdrawing its support. It also affords us a great deal of scope to respond to needs rapidly as they arise or to undertake projects that could otherwise be restricted. But most importantly, it allows us to remain wholly independent and means that you can be confident that the information we produce will always be impartial, accurate and reliable.

For the same reason, we don’t accept any paid advertising on aidsmap.com or in any of NAM’s printed information materials. NAM receives no sponsorship for editorial content we provide about commercially available medical, scientific or other goods or services.

We are fortunate to receive some funds from the pharmaceutical industry, which has been generous in supporting community-based HIV treatment information work. Their support is long-standing and has provided security in a rapidly changing funding environment. However, we have strict funding guidelines in place to ensure the independence and impartiality of all our information. There is no question of their being able to interfere with our editorial stance or influence us in any other way that undermines our independence. The pharmaceutical companies understand and honour our position on this.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our donors, past and present, for their support. It is your commitment and generosity that underpins everything we achieve for people affected by HIV.

Download NAM's funding guidelines.

Donor

Work supported in 2021/2022

Charitable trusts & foundations

Wandsworth Oasis

aidsmapCHAT

National Lottery Awards for All

lottery

 

HIV and Healthy Living

Living Well With HIV

 

The Mercury Phoenix Trust aidsmap news and HIV update email bulletins
James Tudor Foundation aidsmapLIVE

UK statutory funders

 
Fast-Track Cities Improvement Fund

Positive Champions project (with Africa Advocacy Foundation): focusing on early diagnosis and testing in black African communities in south-east London.

The GROWS project, women living with HIV Growing Older, Wiser and Stronger (with Sophia Forum, Positively UK and UCL): supporting women with their health, wellbeing and social care needs.

Fast-Track Cities Initiative

Tackling HIV Stigma: Empowerment Programme

Partnership with 4M Mentor Mothers Network
Public Health England 'Tell me about it' project: podcast series sharing HIV and sexual and reproductive health information.

Conference organisers

European AIDS Clinical Society News coverage from the 18th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2021).

Non-governmental organisations

International AIDS Society IAS 2021 Knowledge Toolkit
Terrence Higgins Trust National HIV Prevention Programme

Pharmaceutical companies

Gilead Sciences

2021 news, bulletins and social media, and conference coverage

2022 news, bulletins and social media, and conference coverage

aidsmapLIVE and aidsmapWOMEN

infohep.org

HIV Lens

Inform, Equip, Empower: knowledge for longer, healthier and happier lives

Janssen-Cilag

Core funding to provide independent, clear and accurate information on HIV treatment and prevention to people living with and affected by HIV all over the world; to make sure people living with and affected by HIV have the reliable information and empowered representation that can guide them to better health choices.

MSD

PrEP and Prevention

Emerging Voices in Scientific Reporting programme

Positive Fitness – an online fitness class for people living with HIV, to get and stay active.

ViiV Healthcare

Family Matters project: short video series sharing the latest thinking on HIV and conception, pregnancy, childbirth and post-natal care.

2021 and 2022 - 'Changing Lives' project (includes PrEP and Prevention, aidsmapLIVE, Emerging Voices, EUROBulletin and conference coverage; and COVID-19 vaccine resources).

Core funding from ViiV UK to deliver a range of up to date, useful and reliable HIV treatment and prevention information resources; for empowered, longer and healthier lives for people living with HIV.

ViiV Prevention Fund - increasing awareness of, and access to, biomedical prevention technologies.

Theratechnologies aidsmapCHAT
Corporate funders
Lloyds Pharmacy aidsmapCHAT

Our partners

NAM has a long tradition of working with a variety of other HIV organisations to respond to emerging challenges, expand our reach, and strengthen HIV information provision. We recognise that working together and sharing skills, experience and expertise means we can all use our resources effectively to better support people with HIV.

Current partnerships include:

European AIDS Clinical Society

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

International AIDS Society

Global Network of People living with HIV (GNP+)

Grupo Português de Activistas sobre Tratamentos de VIH/SIDA (GAT, Portugal) 

Grupo de Trabajo sobre Tratamientos del VIH (gTt, Spain)

Hepatitis C Trust

HIV Justice Worldwide

Terrence Higgins Trust

UNAIDS

The British HIV Association

World Hepatitis Alliance

We have also worked with, amongst others, the National AIDS Trust, the UK Government's Department for International Development, the World Health OrganizationLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Boston University Department of Family Medicine.

NAM works with a range of community-based organisations in other countries to make our materials available in other languages, including GAT; gTt; Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe (German); the Czech AIDS Help Society (Czech); Lega Italiana per la Lotta contro l'Aids (Italian); and Pozitif Yaşam Derneği (Turkish).

If you can help us translate our materials into other languages, we would love to hear from you.

NAM is not a grant-giving organisation and we regret we are unable to offer funding to other organisations.

Our review panels

Medical review panel

We work with a wide range of healthcare professionals to ensure our information materials are accurate and up to date. Here are just some of the people who have helped us with our materials over the years.

Professor Jane Anderson, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Tristan Barber, Consultant HIV Medicine, Ian Charleson Day Centre, Royal Free Hospital

Dr Laura Benjamin, Clinical Lecturer in Neurology, University College London

Dr Marta Boffito, Consultant Physician/Reader, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Imperial College, London

Professor Mark Bower, Consultant Medical Oncologist,  Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Darren Brown, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Fiona Burns, Senior Clinical Lecturer, Honorary Consultant Physician and Clinical Lead for HIV, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Pepe Catalan, Psychiatrist, CNWL NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Ian Cormack, Consultant GUM Physician, Croydon University Hospital

Jodie Crossman, Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Alessia Dalla Pria, Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust

Shema Doshi, Principal pharmacist sexual health, Caldecot Centre, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Ceri Evans, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Sarah Fidler, Consultant Physician in HIV and GUM, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Dr Stuart Flanagan, Clinical Research Fellow, Viral Hepatitis and HIV Medicine, Queen Mary University London

Dr Stuart Gibson, Barts Health NHS Trust

Susanna Gilmour-White, Specialist pharmacist, Caldecot Centre, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Tristan Griffiths, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Nadi Gupta, The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Rachael Jones, Lead clinician, 10 Hammersmith Broadway, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Saye Khoo, Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases, Royal Liverpool University Hospital

Dr Ranjababu Kulasegaram, Consultant Physician in HIV/GU Medicine, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Charles Lacey, Honorary Consultant Physician, GU/HIV Medicine, York Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

Dr Fiona Lampe, University College London

Dr Tom Levett, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Hermione Lyall, Consultant Paediatrician, St Mary's Hospital

Dr Nicola Mackie, Consultant in HIV/GUM, St Mary's Hospital

Dr Paddy Mallon, College Lecturer/Consultant (Infectious Diseases), Mater Hospital, Dublin 

Martin Murchie, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Dr Silvia Montoto, Consultant in Haematology Oncology, Barts Health NHS Trust

Dr Nneka Nwokolo, Consultant Physician in Sexual Health and HIV Medicine, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital

Zoe Rice, Dietitian, The Food Chain

Dr Frank Post, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Celesta Riddles, Directorate pharmacist – HIV services, Ealing Hospital

Dr Damien Ridge, University of Westminster

Dr Iain Reeves, Consultant Physician in Sexual Health and HIV, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Dana Rosenfeld, Keele University

Professor Caroline Sabin, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, University College London

Silma Shah, Highly specialist pharmacist – HIV/GUM, Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Shema Tariq, Postdoctoral Clinical Research Fellow (UCL) & Honorary Consultant HIV Physician (Mortimer Market Centre)

Dr Jonathan Underwood, Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine Specialty Registrar, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Dr Andrew Ustianowski, Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Jaime Vera, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Karen Walker-Bone, Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Arthritis Research UK/MRC Centre for Musculoskeletal Health and Work, Southampton General Hospital NHS FT

Dr Chris Ward, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Shaun Watson, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Rosy Weston, Senior lead pharmacist for sexual health and HIV, St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Professor Alan Winston, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Dr Mike Youle, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Peer review panel

We work with people living with HIV and other HIV organisations who contribute their expertise and share their experiences when reviewing our patient information resources. Some of these people are:

Chris Birch

Clive Blowes, Terrence Higgins Trust

Garry Brough, Positively UK

Ben Cromarty, North Yorkshire AIDS Action

Jeremy

Robert James

Jo Josh, UK-CAB

Alastair Hudson, FPA

Bakita Kasadha

Christabel Kunda, NAZ

Belina Loftus, Spectrum Community Health

Irina Lut, FPA

Vincent Manning, Catholics for AIDS Prevention and Support

Jose Carlos Mejia, METRO

Niamh Miller

Angelina Namiba, Associate, Salamander Trust

Juddy Otti, Africa Advocacy Foundation

Mel Rattue, CEO Positively Mindful CIC

Chris Sandford, Bloomsbury Patient Network

Alex Sparrowhawk

Sophie Strachan

Aedan Wolton, TransPlus

Our vacancies

We are not currently recruiting for any positions at NAM, but do keep checking these pages as we advertise all our vacancies here.

We are a dynamic and energetic organisation, which achieves a great deal with a small but highly focused team. We are professional, yet informal and friendly, with a good level of autonomy within roles. We work in a rapidly changing environment, we listen to the views of users in order to ensure we are responsive to need and maximise opportunities as they arise.

Our history

NAM was founded by Peter Scott in 1987. Peter was working at the heart of the community affected by HIV – at the London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard. At that time there was extensive misinformation about HIV and AIDS, much of it confused and homophobic.

Peter and a group of committed volunteers set about creating a source of calm, authoritative and trustworthy information on which those living with HIV in the UK could rely. Thus, the National AIDS Manual was born. We were one of the first organisations to produce accurate information on HIV and we quickly became the UK’s primary source of HIV information.

Since then, NAM’s users have grown and diversified within the UK and worldwide, so we are constantly revising, rewriting and adapting our information to take account of new needs and developments. We currently publish a wide range of print, online and other digital materials for all communities affected by HIV and those working to support them.

Peter Scott's vision has been central to the development of NAM.

What does NAM stand for?

The initials NAM originally stood for National AIDS Manual.

As these pictures show, when the charity was founded in 1987, the 'Manual' was a huge ring binder containing the available information on HIV and AIDS. Produced at a time when there was lots of hysteria and little reliable information, it was an important, evidence-based, reference point for professionals as well as people diagnosed with HIV and AIDS.

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NAM's resources have developed and evolved over the years to reflect the changing epidemic, developments in treatment and care and the changing information needs of people living with and working in HIV all over the world. We now have a huge range of HIV information resources, including digital and print written information, videos, podcasts and live broadcasts. By providing information on a wide range of platforms, in different languages, we are able to reach larger and broader audiences globally.

As NAM now produces much more than just the ‘Manual’, we have become known simply as NAM.

Although those weighty ringbinders are now tucked away in the NAM archive, the Manuals are an important part of our charity's history. The 'essence' of this approach to delivering HIV and AIDS information is reflected through our day-to-day work, providing calm, reliable, authoritative, independent information to anyone who needs it.