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Let’s reframe risk and focus on informed choices that reflect our desires and respect our lives. Find them here 👉  Risk to Reasons UK Website

Great to see our recent Systematically excluded and ignored report mentioned in this article sophiaforum.net/women-and-hi...

Ending the HIV epidemic by 2030

New modelling by Gilead Sciences shows we're off-track to meet current targets - but hope is not lost.

National project co-produced with communities facing the greatest barriers to PrEP. Focus on racially
minoritised women & men, queer men of color, trans/non-binary people, sex workers, drug users,
homeless, and recent migrants. LINK:
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National project co-produced with communities facing the greatest barriers to PrEP. Focus on racially
minoritised women & men, queer men of color, trans/non-binary people, sex workers, drug users,
homeless, and recent migrants. LINK:
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Sophia Forum is excited to launch a new series of blogs platforming women living with HIV to share their experiences. The first in the series is by Rebecca Mbewe & explores her journey from diagnosis to living well with HIV - please read,Share widely: sophiaforum.net/2025/07/17/a...

Florence Anam (GNP+) reminds us at #IAS2025: “We’re in a difficult time for science in the HIV response, but these new WHO guidelines show we’re still moving forward, for women, for children, for all of us.”

@linkedin.com I have been hacked and trying to contact someone at LinkedIn to speak to v unsuccessfully for over 10 days. Who can I speak to please. I cannot access my account which ever way I try

Logos of the H.I.V. organisations calling for the E.H.R.C. guidelines to be withdrawn

#HIV organisations have come together to call for the guidelines to be withdrawn.
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We believe they will not reduce inequality or protect everyone’s right to fairness, dignity, and respect.

Read the full statement on our website:

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The 2024 Sophia Forum WISE-UP+ workshop on HIV and bone health was designed and led by women living with HIV and allies with the primary aim to improve knowledge about bone health for women ageing with HIV. sophiaforum.net/wise-up/wise... for more information and links to the report and poetry book.

Eating Together isn’t just about food — it’s about connection, conversation, and community 💛
And it wouldn’t happen without our wonderful volunteers.
Thank you 🙏🏼

#VolunteersWeek #TheFoodChain #CommunityMatters #HIVSupport

Adapting the UK's HIV response to a changing epidemic 2025 could be a pivotal year for HIV in the UK. The national HIV Action Plan, published in 2021, will conclude, and a new Action Plan will be launched later this year. The UK has a smaller HIV epidemi...

important editorial from @thelancet.com HIV:

'Adapting the UK's HIV response to a changing epidemic'

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

@bhiva.bsky.social @sophiaforum.bsky.social @nat.org.uk

Have your say to improve the care of people aged over 50 living with HIV in the UK

Are you living with #HIV & aged over 50 in the UK or a carer for someone who is?

What are your health and care concerns about HIV and ageing?

Please help to create a "bank" of research questions to improve the health and care of older adults with HIV

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/socs/have-...

Juddy Otti, reflecting on the work of Africa Advocacy Foundation, @sophiaforum.bsky.social‬ and @onevoicenetwork.bsky.social, highlighted the urgent need to partner and sustainably fund community-led organisations to tackle inequalities faced by women and Black communities.

I wrote this while at the @bhiva.bsky.social conference so suitably inspired! #BHIVA25
@bashhuk.bsky.social @iasociety.bsky.social @tht.org.uk @nationalaidstrust.bsky.social @eltonjohnaidsfoundation.org @unaids.org @appghiv.bsky.social @sophiaforum.bsky.social @hiv-i-base.bsky.social

Trans Femme Futures 'A brilliant, useful, and immensely moving book that deals a critical blow to the epistemic austerity of our times' - Jordy Rosenberg 'Femme' describes a ...

Today the UK supreme court ruled that trans women aren't women. I strongly disagree. Gender like most aspects of the self and society is a construct.

Trans Femme Futures by Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift has been made free to access by Pluto Press.

www.plutobooks.com/978074534941...

Image of Justice for the 97. Never forgotten.

Today we remember the 97, their families & survivors.

Along with other Merseyside MPs I will be doing all I can to get a Hillsborough Law delivered. Anything less is unacceptable.

#JFT97 #YNWA

Our GROWS peer support project supports women living and ageing with HIV. We have just trained 16 new peer mentors who are available to provide 1-1 or remote peer support. If you’re an HIV clinic, Advocate, Peer Mentor, Caseworker, Allied Health Professional, pharmacist etc please email Juddy below

❤️ Much needed recognition of women's contribution to the #HIV movement @sophiaforum.bsky.social @positivelyuk.bsky.social @icwglobal.bsky.social

2 years ago, for Women's History Month, Tim Murphy wrote about 15 women who were #HIV activists.

I have a lot of faves from my time leading coverage at TheBody. This piece is one of the top 10 articles I commissioned. Say their names & fight to preserve their work.

www.thebody.com/article/wome...

Very excited to be in parliament this morning to launch our new Womens HIV Policy report with Gilead and @appghiv.bsky.social 18 months of essential work to ensure women are centered in the HIV response
@stracs.bsky.social

i-Base graphic. The main text in red and dark blue, on a light blue blue background, reads: CROI 2025. RIO study early results. Viral load remains undetectable off-ART, plus possible vaccine-like HIV cure. Below, in white on a burnt orange background, text reads, San Francisco, California. 9th to 12th March. On top of this is a faint image of the Golden Gate Bridge. In the top left corner is a URL: I hyphen base dot info. In the top right corner is a box made of blue, yellow and red blocks. White text on it reads, HTB news. 2025.

Exciting early riotrial.bsky.social‬ results at #CROI2025:i-base.info/htb/50530

New #bNABs so far successful in keeping viral load undetectable in some participants off #HIVtreatment.

Also the first time we’ve seen bNABs cause vaccine-like immune response.

#RIOtrial #teropavimab #zinlirvimab

We’re joining the RCOG and 48 other organisations in a joint letter calling for concrete commitment to ensure women receive the quality healthcare they need throughout their lives.

Read and share the letter: buff.ly/Ao9PazF

#PrioritiseWomensHealth

On International Women's Day, join us in celebrating women living with HIV. Watch this space as we soon relaunch our We Are Still Here campaign, share new research, policy reports & poetry! please support us with a donation www.paypal.com/donate/?host...

Thanks for a moving & inspiring evening in these difficult times. #HIV decriminalisation NOW! @hivjustice.net @sophiaforum.bsky.social @nationalaidstrust.bsky.social @appghiv.bsky.social @frontlineaids.bsky.social @thtorguk.bsky.social

Case conference submission closed now but it would be great to see you at our BHIVA conference in my (other) home town of Brighton @bhiva.bsky.social @tristanjbarber.bsky.social @hivmedicine.bsky.social @thtorguk.bsky.social @sophiaforum.bsky.social @drlaurajwaters.bsky.social

20 years of UK Black Pride. 20 years of joy, resilience, and community. 🖤🏳️‍🌈

Mark your calendars: 10th August 2025 at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, this will be our biggest celebration yet. A space for us, by us. 🌍🏳️‍⚧️

I can’t wait to see you all there. #UKBlackPride

The Moral Injuries of Witnessing Genocide in Gaza | Common Dreams To see what is being done to the people of Gaza is to witness the kind of genocidal action we have said must never be allowed to happen again.

The Moral Injuries of Witnessing Genocide in Gaza | “Activism is also necessary to keep moral injuries from becoming disabling”.