Health

According to the British HIV Association in 2014 the ‘Quality of life for people with HIV in the UK remains poor, despite treatment successes.’

Education ministry officials in Seoul said this week that South Korea’s new national sex education curriculum, due to roll out in March, will not mention homosexuality.

In a key vote on gender equality in mental health, the European Parliament has urged for stronger action on trans and intersex people’s mental health.

A Carlow teenager battling a rare form of cancer has pleaded for help in raising €350,000 to cover the costs of her life-saving specialist treatment in Texas.

The New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) has set an ambitious, but achievable goal to end all new HIV transmissions by 2025 and it is calling on Kiwis to get on board and support its efforts through the new campaign - Ending HIV.

Irish Health Minister Simon Harris also stressed the importance of people offering blood.

Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) has filed a friend of the court brief in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota in support of Jakob Rumble, a transgender man who is suing a hospital and medical group in suburban Minneapolis for the discriminatory treatment he received during an emergency room visit and hospitalisation in June of 2013.

The Philippines is not doing enough to tackle soaring HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men by offering greater access to HIV testing and condoms, an international rights group said last Thursday.

Unusual Risks, the medical financial advisers are today announcing the results of their latest HIV Insurance Survey. After contacting all of the major Life Assurance providers in the UK, they can report that 75%* of insurers are now offering some form of HIV Life Assurance.

Young gay and transgender people fear a group which supports them could close after losing its council contract.