{"id":75637,"date":"2016-11-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ab24656fbeea113f0c0b09e8b78e0fcf"},"modified":"2016-11-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T12:00:00","slug":"news-story-innovative-hiv-prevention-projects-awarded-600000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=75637","title":{"rendered":"News story: Innovative HIV prevention projects awarded \u00a3600,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The National <abbr title=\"Human immunodeficiency virus\">HIV<\/abbr> Prevention Innovation Fund is awarded to projects that offer new and innovative ways of delivering <abbr title=\"Human immunodeficiency virus\">HIV<\/abbr> prevention, in an effort to turn around the ever increasing numbers of new <abbr title=\"Human immunodeficiency virus\">HIV<\/abbr> diagnoses. The successful projects all target groups at high risk and are supported by their local authority. <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> will provide a total of almost \u00a3600,000 between the 13 successful projects, selected from 102 applications.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Black African communities and gay and bisexual men, the winning projects for 2016 to 2017 will bring new interventions into isolated rural communities, as well as targeting deaf people, trans people and men involved in chemsex. The winners were announced today by the Public Health and Innovations Minister, Nicola Blackwood, at an <abbr title=\"Human immunodeficiency virus\">HIV<\/abbr> and AIDS All Party Parliamentary Group (<abbr title=\"All Party Parliamentary Group\">APPG<\/abbr>) event at Westminster.<\/p>\n<p>The winning projects are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SignHealth &#8211; Wandsworth<\/li>\n<li>NAZ &#8211; Waltham Forest<\/li>\n<li>Terrence Higgins Trust &#8211; Hackney<\/li>\n<li>Yorkshire MESMAC &#8211; Wakefield<\/li>\n<li>OutREACH Cumbria  &#8211; Cumbria<\/li>\n<li>Addaction &#8211; St Helens and Liverpool<\/li>\n<li>Lifeline Project &#8211; Stoke-on-Trent<\/li>\n<li>Positive Action &#8211; Hampshire, Southampton<\/li>\n<li>KwaAfrica &#8211; Wandsworth<\/li>\n<li>ClinicQ \u2013 Westminster<\/li>\n<li>National Prison Radio<\/li>\n<li>Martin Fisher Foundation &#8211; Brighton and Hove<\/li>\n<li>Catholics for AIDS Prevention and Support &#8211; Hertfordshire and London<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are an estimated 103,700 people living with <abbr title=\"Human immunodeficiency virus\">HIV<\/abbr> in the UK, with around a fifth (18,100) undiagnosed and unaware they have the virus and at risk of unknowingly passing the virus onto their sexual partners.<\/p>\n<p>New diagnoses of <abbr title=\"Human immunodeficiency virus\">HIV<\/abbr> remain high among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men with around 3,000 new cases every year. Getting diagnosed early is essential in helping to reduce transmission, as once diagnosed people will usually start treatment with anti-retroviral drugs, which are highly effective in reducing the virus to undetectable levels. This means people on treatment can be considered non-infectious.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Human immunodeficiency virus\">HIV<\/abbr> testing also reduces late diagnoses, which carries a tenfold risk of death within a year compared to those diagnosed promptly.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Kevin Fenton, National Director of Health and Wellbeing at <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile <abbr title=\"Human immunodeficiency virus\">HIV<\/abbr> rates are declining in the general population, we are still seeing <abbr title=\"Human immunodeficiency virus\">HIV<\/abbr> impact far too hard on certain communities. That\u2019s why I\u2019m very excited to see twice the number of projects winning funding this year with some excellent bold new creative approaches to help boost local action to reduce <abbr title=\"Human immunodeficiency virus\">HIV<\/abbr> among high-risk groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Health England (PHE) awards \u00a3600,000 to support 13 innovative voluntary-led HIV prevention projects across England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}