HIV Scotland is a registered charitable organisation based in Edinburgh, Scotland, established in 1995 as Scottish Voluntary HIV & AIDS Forum, that works...
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HIV/AIDS was first diagnosed in 1981. As of year-end 2018, 160,493 people have been diagnosed with HIV in the United Kingdom and an estimated 7,500 people...
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Alex Cole-Hamilton (category Members of the Scottish Parliament 2016–2021)
persuaded the Scottish Government to reverse a planned funding cut to HIV Scotland that would have sunk that organisation. In 2020, during parliamentary...
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HIV virus and about 40.1 million [33.6–48.6 million] people have died of HIV. Globally, 38.4 million [33.9–43.8 million] people were living with HIV at...
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Criminal transmission of HIV is the intentional or reckless infection of a person with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This is often conflated...
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Scottish AIDS Monitor (SAM) was a Scottish HIV and AIDS awareness organisation that was active between 1983 and 1996. In 1983, after becoming aware of...
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Contaminated blood scandal in the United Kingdom (category HIV/AIDS in the United Kingdom)
scandal in which a large number of people were infected with hepatitis C and HIV, as a result of receiving contaminated blood or contaminated clotting factor...
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PHACE West (redirect from Project for HIV and Aids Care and Education (PHACE) West)
Project for HIV and AIDS Care and Education (PHACE) West was Scottish HIV and AIDS awareness organisation that was active in the West of Scotland between...
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Terrence Higgins Trust (category HIV/AIDS organisations in the United Kingdom)
to HIV and sexual health. In particular, the charity aims to end the transmission of HIV in the UK; to support and empower people living with HIV, to...
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started the Lakshya Trust, of which he is chairman, a group dedicated to HIV/AIDS education and prevention, LGBTQ+ issues and running of India's first...
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Emtricitabine/tenofovir (category Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention)
fixed-dose combination antiretroviral medication used to treat and prevent HIV/AIDS. It contains the antiretroviral medications emtricitabine and tenofovir...
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by Outright Scotland. At the time, the magazine was an important source of information for LGBT readers across Scotland. Through the HIV/AIDS epidemic...
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suggests one in 50 people in Scotland have had lasting ill-effects after contracting COVID-19. 25 March – HIV Scotland announces it will close due to...
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include chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis. Viral STIs include genital herpes, HIV/AIDS, and genital warts. Parasitic STIs include trichomoniasis. STI diagnostic...
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The HIV trial in Libya (or Bulgarian nurses affair) concerns the trials, appeals and eventual release of six foreign medical workers charged with conspiring...
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The Sunday Times (redirect from Sunday Times Scotland)
that AIDS was spreading in Africa, claimed that tests for HIV were invalid, described the HIV/AIDS treatment drug AZT as harmful, and characterized the...
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Andrew Stimpson (category People with HIV/AIDS)
1980 in Largs, Scotland) is a former glamour model, who was once cover boy and centrefold of Euroboy magazine. He tested negative for HIV fourteen months...
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potentially stop the spread of HIV from used and shared needles. This policy proposal has been opposed by the UK government and Scottish Conservatives who believe...
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Wilson Carswell (category 20th-century Scottish medical doctors)
Carswell OBE FRCS (born 1937) is a Scottish physician who was one of the first medical researchers to identify HIV/AIDS in Uganda. He graduated from the...
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Gareth Thomas (rugby) (category People with HIV/AIDS)
captain Gareth Thomas reveals he has HIV". BBC News. Retrieved 14 September 2019. "Gareth Thomas forced to reveal HIV diagnosis having kept it secret for...
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Ken Cowan (activist) (category British HIV/AIDS activists)
November 1995) was a Scottish AIDS activist and founder/director of PHACE West, the project for HIV and Aids education in the West of Scotland. Cowan was a left...
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Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury (category People with HIV/AIDS)
000 ft "Munros" in Scotland; in April 2004, he was elected President of the Ramblers' Association. He is a patron of London-based HIV charity The Food Chain...
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Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal (category Documentary films about HIV/AIDS)
from selling blood plasma from inmates infected with viral hepatitis and HIV. The documentary contends that thousands of victims who received transfusions...
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Ruchill Hospital (category HIV/AIDS in the United Kingdom)
cases of HIV, the cause of AIDS, after the emergence of this virus in the early 1980s, and also took patients from elsewhere in the West of Scotland. The...
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Maureen Moore (activist) (category HIV/AIDS activism)
director of Scottish AIDS Monitor from its inception in 1983. After leaving SAM, Moore went on to chair the Scottish voluntary sector's HIV and AIDS forum...
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Derek Ogg (category British HIV/AIDS activists)
offences that are no longer illegal in Scotland. In 1983 Ogg established the Scottish HIV and AIDS awareness charity Scottish AIDS Monitor. Ogg's activism started...
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as Tommy Gunn. He retired from boxing in 1996 after testing positive for HIV. Morrison made a brief comeback to boxing from 2007 to 2008 when the Nevada...
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ACT UP (category HIV/AIDS activism)
regions with the most people with HIV. Edinburgh ACT UP's biggest protest blocked traffic outside of the Scottish Office. It attracted MPs and received...
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Penrose Inquiry (category HIV/AIDS in the United Kingdom)
Penrose Inquiry was the public inquiry into hepatitis C and HIV infections from NHS Scotland treatment with blood and blood products such as factor VIII...
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Lloyd Russell-Moyle (category People with HIV/AIDS)
Russell-Moyle: MP announces in Commons he is HIV positive". BBC News Online. 29 November 2018. Retrieved 29 November 2018. "HIV and World AIDS Day: 29 November 2018"...
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