{"id":737543,"date":"2026-08-14T07:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737543\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:56:08","slug":"big-step-forward-in-hiv-treatment-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737543\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Big step forward&#8217; in HIV treatment celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new development in the treatment of HIV has been hailed as a &#8220;big step forward&#8221; by a London professor who was part of the research team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Currently, those taking a pill for HIV take the medication daily which is not always easy or practical and leaves some who have not made their diagnosis widely known worried that someone like a parent or housemate could find the pills. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now, an international clinical trial has found taking it weekly is just as effective.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/new-hiv-diagnoses-in-england-provisional-data\/report-on-new-hiv-diagnoses-in-england-provisional-data-2025\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest data from the UK Health Security Agency, external<\/a>, about 39,750 people in London are living with HIV, of which about 1,250 are undiagnosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stephen Hart from Brixton was diagnosed with HIV in 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Every time I took my medication, I was reminded that I was living with HIV, and it was something that I was ashamed of. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I knew other people had a stigma against it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So I think taking a tablet once a week instead of taking a tablet seven times a week will make a huge difference to people mentally.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new development in the treatment of HIV has been hailed as a &#8220;big step forward&#8221; by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-737543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}