Philip Baldwin reflects on ‘exciting’ advances in HIV/AIDS medicine and how the UK can achieve its goal of ending new cases of HIV by 2030.
WORDS BY PHILIP BALDWIN I was diagnosed with HIV on 18 January 2010, 14 years ago. I was one of 6,000 people diagnosed that year, the majority gay or bi men.
In 2023, 3,805 people were diagnosed, the majority within the straight community. This shift in the changing pattern of HIV diagnoses happened several years ago.
While gay and bi men are still more impacted relative to population size and HIV diagnoses in this group each year are still in the high hundreds, the LGBTQIA+ population also lead in utilising testing, earlier access to treatment and PrEP.