Health News

Interested in Making an Impact on Services?

Posted on 23 Jun 2025 in Health

The Diversity Trust is leading a workshop for the NHS to find out how services can better accommodate the needs of minority groups, including LGBTQIA+ people. Here is the information:

The Diversity Trust is working with Diverse Connections to support them on a piece of work to improve mental health services for seldom heard groups.

Aus Lifts AIDS Era Bar on GBT Male Bloods

Posted on 19 Jun 2025 in Health

The long standing LGBTQIA Newspaper in Sydney reports that the organisation that controls stocks of blood and blood plasma donations in Australia, has announced changes to rules around donation. The paper reports "

Kiss FM and Channel Four Partner over Bodyism

Posted on 18 Jun 2025 in Health

Media website RCS Radio Today reports that the Channel Four network is to join forces with KISSFMs network of dance music themed radio stations to promote body acceptance and raise issues of body confidence in listeners and viewers. Simon Kilby, MD at Bauer Medi

Cautious Optimism at Final Cure for HIV

Posted on 15 Jun 2025 in Health

LGBTQ Nation and the Peter Tatchell Foundation are both reporting this week that researchers have used technology and techniques developed in the fight against Covid19 which may allow for an easier chemical tagging of HIV virus. If successful, the technique coul

Kiss FM and Channel 4 Unite Against Bullies

Posted on 27 May 2025 in Health

Kiss FM is running a series of commercials and promotions over the course of May to mark its status of Mental Health Awareness Month. In one of them, the breakfast presenters of the youth music network, which has national coverage, reference the fact that the e

May

"Mean Spirited" Attack on Medicaid, Abortion

Radical magazine Mother Jones is watching the breakneck speed with which Donald Trump's medical bill is passing through the US House of Representatives. The magazine notes "Trump'

Feb

ProChoice Groups Win the Day in Opposed Demos

Abortion Rights UK headed up a coalition of pro-choice reproductive charities and organisations on 31st August to counter the annual anti-choice march in London made up largely of highly conservat

Feb

Care Home Hope After Report Published

The BBC News Channel reports that New guidance has been written for care homes to support inclusive care practice for older LGBTQ+ people. Researchers from the University of Kent,

Jan

Ireland Rallies Over Access to Puberty Blocks

Several hundred people rallied in both Belfast and Dublin on 26th August to protest against a ban on prescribing puberty blockers to Northern Ireland. To the surprise of many people, Sinn Fein, a

Jan

Doctors for Minority Boost Health Confidence

South African LGBTQIA news network Mamba Online reports that a scheme called "Yellow Dot Doctors" allows people on the margins of the gay and trans communities, who perhaps are not