{"id":238690,"date":"2025-07-04T23:53:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T23:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238690\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T23:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T23:53:19","slug":"london-pride-update-on-londons-sexual-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238690\/","title":{"rendered":"London Pride update on London\u2019s sexual health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/doitlondon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Do It London<\/a>, the Lambeth-led, London-wide campaign to end new HIV infections by 2030 launches a new campaign to get Londoners of all ages, genders and cultures working together to end HIV, the London HIV Prevention Programme and other healthcare specialists are working to make sex safer for all London\u2019s diverse communities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Word From the Cabinet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cllr David Bridson, Lambeth\u2019s Cabinet Lead for Health, said: \u201cKnowledge is power, and with Lambeth-led information campaigns from Do It London sharing the knowledge about the four sure ways to control HIV, London is consistently meeting UNAIDS targets. It\u2019s part of the great work that is going into meeting our ambitious aim of zero new transmissions by 2030. And with the new Find Sexual Health website, Lambeth is working with our partners across South London to give all kinds of diverse communities the power to take control of their health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>HIV Action Plan update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2021 the government\u2019s first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/towards-zero-the-hiv-action-plan-for-england-2022-to-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HIV\u00a0Action Plan for England<\/a> set out the UK\u2019s targets for 2025 to meet the long-term commitment to end\u00a0HIV\u00a0transmission by 2030, reducing the numbers of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>people diagnosed with\u00a0HIV\u00a0in England by 80%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>people diagnosed with an\u00a0AIDS-defining condition within 3 months of an\u00a0HIV\u00a0diagnosis by 50%<\/li>\n<li>HIV-related deaths in England by 50%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And ending HIV-related stigma.<\/p>\n<p>The Action Plan update report published in February finds substantial reductions in new\u00a0HIV\u00a0diagnoses (especially among men having sex with men) but health inequalities are still an issue for some communities. An estimated 104,000 adults in England are living with\u00a0HIV\u00a0\u2013 with many asking for mental health support.\u00a0 98% of people on HIV treatment are undetectable and can\u2019t pass on the virus. More people tested for HIV at sexual health clinics (up by 8% between 2021 and 2023) and there\u2019s an 11% rise in people from all cultures taking PrEP to prevent infection \u2013 but again, gender identity, sexuality and ethnicity are still barriers to take-up of that medicine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New vaccine for sexual health<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This August, a new anti-gonorrhoea vaccine becomes widely available to help protect Londoners\u2019 sexual health and save the NHS time and money on treating sexually transmitted infections.\u00a0 Two doses of MenB could protect against gonorrhoea for at least three years. MenB is expected to be most useful in the communities who are most likely to test positive for gonorrhoea \u2013\u00a0 including gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM), some transgender women, Black Caribbean communities, Latin American communities, and young people aged between 15 and 24. MenB will also be available to buy from pharmacies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Find information and advice on new sexual health website<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lambeth has worked with Southwark, Lewisham, Bexley and Bromley to launch a new website called Find Sexual Health which connects people with free local and online services including sections on services for young people and LGBTQ+ people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Do It London, the Lambeth-led, London-wide campaign to end new HIV infections by 2030 launches a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[92875,748,89202,393,92876,880,4884,19164,257,40719,92877,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-238690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-al-health","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-do-it-london","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-find-sexual-health","13":"tag-gonorrhoea","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-hiv","16":"tag-london","17":"tag-pride-month","18":"tag-safe-sex","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114797661591125670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}