🚨The Scottish Parliament has voted against the ‘Nordic Model Bill’ in a win for sex workers' rights.

Jacqui Stevenson, Senior Policy, Research & Influencing Manager, congratulates Scotland for Decrim: "This victory would not have been achieved without their tireless campaigning."

The evidence is clear: criminalisation of sex work increases the risk of #HIV transmission.

Only when sex work is fully decriminalised will Scotland be able to achieve the 2030 goal to end new HIV transmission.

Sex work decriminalisation vital to ending HIV transmission in Scotland Scotland for Decrim, with support from National AIDS Trust, are calling for the decriminalisation of sex work.

📢Sex work decriminalisation is vital to ending #HIV transmission in Scotland.

Scotland for Decrim, with support from National AIDS Trust & academics, are calling for the full decriminalisation of sex work: https://nat.org.uk/publications/scotland-sex-work-decriminalisation/

It’s #WorldAIDSDay and the final day of our #5DaysOfAction

Today we ask you to enable our vital work to support people living with HIV by donating.

We will continue fighting for the rights of everybody living with, at risk of or affected by HIV!

Donate today: nat.org.uk/donate

Just four days until #WorldAIDSDay! How will you help end HIV stigma?

Reshare these 5 facts about #HIV to help us raise awareness and combat stigma for #WorldAIDSDay.

#5DaysOfAction

Share the facts: https://ow.ly/BZw350XyVnp

Our 2025 World AIDS Day campaign is live! Join us and @michellevisage.bsky.social, and order 100 red ribbons and a fundraising pack to get started with your plans for 1 December. You can end new HIV cases by 2030. www.worldaidsday.org. #WorldAIDSDay

National project co-produced with communities facing the greatest barriers to PrEP. Focus on racially
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Join the Sophia Forum Campaigner Panel – shape our campaigns and make change happen. Sophia Forum is recruiting ten women living with HIV to lead the development and delivery of the We Are Still Here campaign.
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I'm delighted to share this free online training course on Gender and HIV I had the pleasure of developing for the International AIDS Society. Please check out the course and share with anyone who might benefit from it.
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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...

🚨 Without urgent, continued investment, 4.2 million more people could die of AIDS by 2029.​

You can help change this. Donate to UNAIDS and help us end AIDS: www.unaids.org/en/donate%E2...

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.

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...

Great to see this important editorial in the Lancet HIV profiling a report I'm really proud of working on. We have to adapt to ensure the UK's HIV response is up to the task of achieving equity, or women will continue to be left behind.

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10 million potential new HIV infections by 2030; 3 million potential more deaths, including 120,000 children, due to HIV-related causes by 2030. This could be the impact of HIV funding cuts.

A decline in funding for the HIV response could result in millions of preventable new infections and deaths, with up to 120,000 of these deaths affecting children.

International cooperation is essential to sustain the advances we’ve made in HIV prevention, testing, and treatment.

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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...