A free and confidential online HIV testing service is set to be expanded.<\/p>\n
More than \u00a39 million is being invested in the HIV Action Plan over the next two years as part of a plan to eliminate new transmissions in Wales.<\/p>\n
It includes almost \u00a34 million a year to expand access to testing services.<\/p>\n
The online testing service currently provides 40,000 at-home HIV tests every year and almost 16,000 community testing kits across Wales.<\/p>\n
The new funding will support the expansion of this service.<\/p>\n
Other measures to be supported include improving access and uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), which reduces the risk of contracting HIV through sex by 99 per cent when taken as prescribed.<\/p>\n
Wales already provides PrEP through the NHS, and now an alternative form of the medicine will be routinely available for those who cannot take the current form.<\/p>\n
The funding will also be used to strengthen support services to ensure people with HIV live well and receive the right treatment when they need it.<\/p>\n
Health Secretary Jeremy Miles said: “We want people who are living with HIV in Wales to live their best possible lives.<\/p>\n
“We will raise awareness of the importance of testing and expanding our successful online testing services, making it easier for people to access a test.<\/p>\n
“We will also make it easier for people to access PrEP and reinforce the key message that people who are on effective treatment cannot pass HIV onto others.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A free and confidential online HIV testing service is set to be expanded. More than \u00a39 million is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,45272,45275,45276,45273,45274,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-96831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-hiv-testing","11":"tag-people-with-hiv","12":"tag-support-services","13":"tag-testing-service","14":"tag-testing-services","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114498038884342652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96831","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=96831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}