Prestigious national award for sexual health work

Public Health Leeds commissioned charity, Yorkshire MESMAC has won a prestigious GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Award for its outstanding contribution to improving sexual health in Yorkshire, GSK and The King’s Fund announced yesterday evening at the award ceremony held at London’s Science Museum. Leeds based Yorkshire MESMAC provides sexual health services which include community-based rapid HIV testing, [...]

VERBENA SPA – luxury pampering

Verbena Spa is located forty minutes from York and Harrogate, and an hour from Leeds in the scenic market town of Helmsley. Verbena Spa is part of the Feversham Arms, a destination popular with shooting enthusiasts, married couples and urban types looking to escape the grime and bustle of the city. The hotel has a [...]

Study highlights needs of growing older population living with HIV

A University of Salford study with charity the George House Trust has highlighted the North West’s growing population of older people with HIV and the lack of services for older HIV-positive gay men. The development of antiretroviral medications has meant that people with HIV are living longer lives and many can expect to live well [...]

AKT and Outpost merge

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) youth homeless charities the Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT) and Outpost Housing are to merge to help meet rising demand and sustain vital services for young people. Outpost will continue to operate in the north east and offer support and accommodation to LGBT young people at risk of homelessness. They [...]

Birmingham LGBT opens sports and fitness studio

Birmingham LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans) has added a new sports and fitness studio to its thriving Health and Wellbeing Centre in Birmingham’s Southside district. The sports and fitness studio, named The Vault, opened to the public on recently and is located in the basement of the centre on Holloway Circus in Southside. It [...]

GMFA: into the future

With all the current cuts to help and support services many charities and organisations have had to do a major re-think on how they can restructure their costs to survive. Here, GMFA, tell us what their hopes are for the future. We just wanted to assure all of our supporters that we fully expect to [...]

Halt HIV within a generation

Gay men in England can halt     HIV within a generation,             says largest-scale prevention campaign targeting community to date Gay and bisexual men in England have the power to halt the spread of HIV in their community within a generation, according to a major new campaign launched today by HIV Prevention England (HPE). It Starts With [...]

Hep C Info

If you are familiar with NAM’s patient information materials, hopefully you already know about our popular series The basics. These illustrated leaflets explain key health messages in a straightforward, accessible way and are designed to support conversations between professionals and the people living with HIV in their care. Now we’re delighted to announce the publication [...]

Another’s hands – by G Alexander

The other morning I woke up not having had a particularly pleasant nights sleep. It had taken me ages to drop off and what sleep I did manage was quite fitful. I get tense and cranky when I don’t get my required number of hours in bed and that means that everyone around me suffers. [...]

Men in same-sex marriages are living longer, according to new study

The mortality rate for men in same-sex marriages has dropped markedly since the 1990s, according to a Danish study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology. However, same-sex married women have emerged as the group of women with the highest, and in recent years, even further increasing mortality. Denmark implemented the world’s first national law [...]

BEYONCE ENCOUNTERS . . . PEP (Post Exposure Prophylaxis)

  ‘Do you have any water?’ Pete asks in the A&E department. It’s a Sunday evening, and most of the people still queuing up here are casualties from Saturday-night revelries. We’re all being punished for our weekend excesses, it seems. There are people with bust lips and broken limbs. People in wheelchairs and on crutches. [...]

Pioneering new Health and Wellbeing centre set to open its doors to Birmingham’s LGBT community

The LGBT Health and Wellbeing Centre is set to address the problems of health inequalities that LGBT people face in the city of Birmingham. Isn’t it time that the NHS set out to do the same nationally? Research has identified important relational barriers between LGB patients and some healthcare professionals due to both homophobia and [...]