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Each of the four main local parties are sending two candidates to represent their party’s position at an LGBT hustings in the run up to the General Election on May 5th.
Nick Partridge, Chief Executive of Terrence Higgins Trust, commented on the Labour Party manifesto commitment to work for treatment for all the world's 40 million HIV/Aids cases by 2010: “We warmly welcome Labour's commitment to ensure global HIV treatment availability. However, they should start by ensuring HIV treatment is available to everyone who needs it in the UK now...
The mental, emotional and sexual health of people with learning difficulties who are gay, lesbian and bisexual is being jeopardised by the failure of many services to give the support needed in this area.
"We welcome the Government's commitment of £26 million for microbicides. The development of a microbicide would be a significant step forward in the fight against HIV, as would the discovery of an effective vaccine..."
A survey released today by sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust, BHIVA and PACT reveals England is still failing to adequately provide for the sexual health of its residents, and sexual health services remain a low priority for Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) despite sustained increases in sexual ill-health.
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