The Hull and East Riding Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Partnership recently launched an innovative, online sexual health clinic service. This new online service is the first of its kind for the region and is designed to offer the people of Hull new options for contacting clinic staff and gaining access to timely and accurate sexual healthcare information. Service users can get fast and accurate information, arrange to attend the clinic, or arrange to have information or testing kits sent directly to their home.
This “Virtual Clinic” complements the excellent in-house clinic …

In 2007 when I first heard the words “you’re HIV positive” the only thing that was going through my mind was not the prospect of dealing with HIV but the thought that I couldn’t try for another baby: that devastated me more than the positive HIV test result. At that time, I had been with my partner for 2 years and we had been trying for a baby.  Unfortunately I had had 3 early miscarriages but we didn’t give up trying until the day I heard those words from the …

A new analysis of research evidence suggests that one of the AIDS drug regimens increasingly used in developing countries and recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), may have an unacceptably high risk of failure and rate of drug resistance in patients. The study, led by the Stanford University School of Medicine, appears in the March 15 print issue of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. In an editorial, eminent researchers call for a clinical trial of the tenofovir/lamivudine/nevirapine combination to decide whether it should stay on the WHO recommended list.
In 2010, the …

Those of you who follow us here at Body Positive Hull and East Riding (BPHER) will know that
we’re committed to educating those living with HIV on ways to improve their quality of life. Our pages covering, Diet and HIV, and HIV and Minimizing Treatment Side Effects are examples of two of our more popular site pages.
To follow on from that, Baseline recently shared links to their videos that we felt our local site users might find of interest. The following is a series of videos covering various aspects of Diet …

Physical violence, sexual abuse and other forms of childhood and adult trauma are major factors fueling the epidemic of HIV/AIDS among American women. Scientists have known for years that traumatized women are at greater risk of becoming infected.
Now, two new studies from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Harvard Medical School demonstrate that a high rate of trauma among women already infected with HIV also plays a role in the epidemic.
Described in back-to-back papers in the journal AIDS and Behavior, the new work demonstrates that women with HIV …