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Press releases December, 2008

Dec 24 2008

NAT Welcomes Lancet Report Calling for Needle Programs in Prison

NAT (National AIDS Trust) welcomes the report Interventions to Reduce HIV Transmission Related to Injecting Drug Use in Prison by Dr Ralf Jürgens, an HIV consultant based in Quebec, Canada, and colleagues on behalf of WHO and published in the January edition of Lancet Infectious Diseases.
 
The report concludes prisons should have needle and syringe programs and other preventive measures in place to prevent HIV transmission between inmates.
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Dec 10 2008

On Human Rights Day HIV Charities Speak Out About Deportation

AHPN and NAT say UK Government's policy is putting lives at risk

Two key UK HIV charities, AHPN (African HIV Policy Network) and NAT (National AIDS Trust), are calling on the Government to use Human Rights Day as an opportunity to review the UK's policy of deporting people diagnosed with HIV in the UK to countries where treatment is not readily available or affordable. 
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Dec 05 2008

NAT welcomes new Northern Ireland Sexual Health Promotion Strategy

On 1 December, World AIDS Day, the first ever Sexual Health Promotion Strategy and Action Plan for Northern Ireland was published1. This Strategy document is long overdue as in recent years there have been increasing numbers of sexually transmitted infections and high levels of teenage pregnancy in Northern Ireland. 

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