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8 May 2013
National AIDS Trust responds to Queen’s Speech by urging ministers to focus more on HIV 26 The National AIDS Trust has responded to the Queen’s Speech by urging the government to pay more attention to the needs of people living with HIV.
1 April 2013
Rugby star Ben Cohen: Elton John made me get a hearing aid and ‘changed my life’ 13 Former England rugby player Ben Cohen has said that Elton John "changed his life" by convincing him to get a hearing aid, and said that Sir Elton does more charity work than people realise.
27 March 2013
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust comes top in Stonewall’s Healthcare Equality Index 1 Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has been announced as the most lgbt-friendly healthcare organisation in England.
26 February 2013
Comment: The priorities of the LGBT community lie away from marriage 42 Writing for PinkNews.co.uk, LGBT activist and SNP member Nathan Sparling says the UK Government has been putting too much of its focus on equal marriage – when the issue of health inequality has a far greater impact on the LGBT community.
13 February 2013
Comment: How I abstained from gay sex for a year in order to give blood 61 Writing for PinkNews.co.uk, Calum McSwiggan tells the story of how he abstained from gay sex for a year in order to legally give blood.
11 January 2013
Comment: It’s time for the media to change the record on trans healthcare 25 In a comment piece for PinkNews, Sarah Brown says the media needs to make substantial improvements in the way it covers health stories involving the trans community.
24 December 2012
Scotland: LGBT counselling service to shut on New Years Day 5 Scotland’s only dedicated LGBT telephone counselling service is to close after 35 years as a result of funding cuts.
21 December 2012
Anti-gay ex-UKIP abortion row candidate defeated in By-election 20 A prospective UKIP candidate, who described same-sex marriage as an “abhorrence”, and was then suspended by the party for his outspoken views on abortion, has been defeated in a Kent council By-election.
26 November 2012
London: Free home HIV testing launched for gay and bisexual men 27 GMFA and the NHS have launched a trial lasting until March 2013 that will allow gay and bisexual men in London to have an HIV test without leaving the home.
22 November 2012
Video: David Cameron releases World AIDS Day message 3 David Cameron says more needs to be done to increase HIV testing and has paid tribute to HIV/AIDS care and prevention workers in his annual World AIDS Day message.
13 November 2012
Gay ‘cure’ therapy is harmful says UK government 29 Culture Secretary Maria Miller has responded to a parliamentary question on gay conversion therapy by instructing Health Minister Norman Lamb to outline the government’s official position.
17 October 2012
UK: National AIDS Trust criticises government over HIV strategy 89 The National AIDS Trust (NAT) has accused the Department of Health of failing to renew its sexual health and HIV strategy for England, two years after it came to an end.
6 September 2012
US medical body changes advice on circumcision 146 The American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) has changed its policy on the procedure and is no longer opposed to the routine circumcision of male new born babies.
10 June 2012
Medical body calls on NHS to extend HPV vaccination to gay men 8 A group of health professionals, men's health charities, and senior politicians are set to call on the NHS to extend vaccination against carcinogenic Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) to gay men, the Guardian reports.
22 May 2012
Gay couples and women over 40 to receive fertility treatment through NHS 11 Same-sex couples and women over 40 will be entitled to free in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment through the National Health Service (NHS), for the first time according to guidelines to be published today.
24 April 2012
Stonewall survey: NHS ‘failing gay and bisexual men’ 29 A large-scale health study in the UK has found that gay and bisexual men are neglected and discriminated against by the NHS, which, rather than focusing on their propensity for self-harm, suicide and severe depression, concentrates solely on their sexual health.
14 March 2012
Gays urged to ditch the cigarettes on No Smoking Day 18 Gay smokers have been urged to give up on the British Heart Foundation's 29th annual No Smoking Day.
27 October 2011
Government says it must do more to tackle HIV 128 Health secretary Andrew Lansley has admitted that the government can and should do more to tackle HIV rates.
26 September 2011
Transgender woman says she has been left ‘half man’ by NHS surgery refusal 81 A transgender woman from Burnley has accused the NHS of leaving her "half man, half woman" by refusing to pay for her breast surgery.
8 June 2011
London hospitals to offer routine HIV tests to A&E patients 40 Two hospitals in London are to offer routine HIV tests to Accident and Emergency (A&E) patients, making them the first in the UK to do so and aiming to save lives by reducing the number of cases of undiagnosed HIV.

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