Sexual Health Clinics in Birmingham are seeing an increasing number of older adults with sexually transmitted diseases (STI) and HIV. Many of those seeking help have become newly single through divorce, separation, or the death of their partners and have started new sexual relationships without…

Heartlands HIV Service, and our colleagues from the Sixth People’s Hospital in Zhengzhou City, featured yesterday on BBC Midlands today. It was great exposure for what we think is a really exciting collaborative project. You can read the story here, or watch the TV coverage…

Access to contraception for under-16s may be extended to your local pharmacy, should the recommendations of an NHS reportbe taken forward. Produced by NHS South East London, the report, which was uncovered by a GP magazine, emphasises the potential benefits – following a pilot in the…

Dr Steve Welch, a consultant paediatrician here at Hawthorn House is quoted in this Guardian article about teenagers with HIV: “Adolescent survivors of HIV are a new and challenging population,” says Dr Steven Welch, a consultant paediatrician at Birmingham Heartlands hospital. “The challenge is that, having got…

Dr Steve Taylor, of the Heartlands HIV Service, appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live on World AIDS Day, along with one of his patients from here at Hawthorn House, Daniel. You can hear their segment on Victoria Derbyshire’s show, which featured several other contributions, too,…