2010s

2010

• A man in Scotland is sentenced to jail for 10 years for infecting his girlfriend with HIV, later reduced to eight years. Twenty-two people were prosecuted for reckless HIV transmission in the previous decade.
• President Barack Obama’s administration’s official lifting of the HIV travel ban to the USA is finally implemented.
• The Equality Act comes into effect in the UK making indirect discrimination unlawful and ending employers asking pre-employment health-related questions to people living with HIV.
• Terrence Higgins Trust launches a free sex and relationships guide book for young people, schools and colleges, 'Everything you need to know about... Relationships'.
• Crusaid, one of the UK’s best known HIV and AIDS charities, merges with Terrence Higgins Trust, preserving the Hardship Fund - a much-needed safety net for people with HIV living in poverty.
• A new Terrence Higgins Trust campaign highlights a new study showing that one in seven men on the gay scene in London has HIV.
• ’50 plus’, a new Terrence Higgins Trust study about HIV and ageing, is launched with findings showing that older people with HIV face multiple disadvantages in terms of health and finances.
• A new report on poverty and HIV by NAT (National AIDS Trust) and Terrence Higgins Trust reveals at least one in six people diagnosed with HIV in the UK experienced severe poverty between 2006 and 2009.

2011

• In January Terrence Higgins Trust launches the myHIV website with support from EJAF. Within its first month more than 650 people had registered for full access to the website, 500 of whom joined its online myHIV forum.
• The first patient cured of HIV, Timothy Ray Brown, was confirmed as having a negative HIV status, years after a bone marrow transplant for leukemia resulted in him becoming resistant to the virus.
• 5 June marks the 30th anniversary of the first AIDS cases, then called GRID, being reported.
• Lisa Power, Policy Director for Terrence Higgins Trust, receives an MBE from Prince Charles for services to sexual health and to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.
• Terrence Higgins Trust runs its first ‘Walk for Life’ fundraiser after the merger with Crusaid, raising £100,000 pounds for people living with HIV in poverty.
• The lifetime ban on gay men donating blood in the UK is lifted after a review by the blood authority involving Terrence Higgins Trust and other HIV and LGBT organisations.

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