Please click the link below to see information about ‘The Hardest Hit Campaign’ which is currently campaigning to make sure positive changes to the Welfare Reform Bill are not over turned when it returns to the House of Commons.  They’re asking all of us to contact our MPs to ask them to support the changes that have been made by the Lords.  You can take action to aid in this cause and it only takes a minute to do.

http://www.hardesthit.org.uk/

Below is an article about the rise in repeat pregnancies among women who are living with HIV in the UK and Ireland. This emphasises that women who are HIV-positive can have families and, with the appropriate antiretroviral treatments, mother-to-child transmissions can be prevented in most circumstances.
Click on the link below to view the full article on AIDS Map.

http://www.aidsmap.com/Big-increase-in-repeat-pregnancy-rates-in-HIV-positive-women-in-UK-and-Ireland/page/2212493/

Below is an interesting article, written before World AIDS Day 2011, which emphasises the need to destigmatise HIV in Northern Ireland and push for greater funding for care and prevention.

HIV/AIDS Thirty Years On: Challenges and Hopes
By Ruari-Santiago McBride
23/11/2011
The AIDS virus was first discovered three decades ago in the United States. Since then, 30 million people have died from AIDS-related causes and 1.8 million people continue to die every year. According to the World Health Organisation there are currently 33.3 million people living across the world with the HIV virus, which causes AIDS. The impact that HIV/AIDS has had on our global community is internationally recognised on the 1st of December as ‘World AIDS Day’.

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