# Charities unite in opposition to cuts in HIV support services

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/02/26/charities-unite-opposition-cuts-hiv-support-services/
- Published: 2016-02-26T07:51:43+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**HIV charities have partnered with health professional bodies, British Association
for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH), and British HIV Association to launch a national
campaign opposing cuts to HIV services across the country.**

Support People with HIV: Stop the Cuts has launched in response to the number of
local authorities pulling funding from HIV support services. Charities involved 
include [Terrence Higgins Trust](http://www.tht.org.uk/), National AIDS Trust, British
HIV Association, and METRO.

The campaign has written to Secretary of State for Health, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt. calling
for a meeting to discuss the impact of these cuts, demand effective commissioning,
adequate funding, and access to support services for all people living with HIV.
It also appeals to members of the public to take an e-action to show their support
by writing to their local council leader to ask what the council is doing to support
local people living with HIV.

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Yusef Azad, director of strategy, National Aids Trust said:

> “HIV support services can be the only place where people are open about their 
> status, the only places they can find advice and support, the only place they 
> can talk to other people with HIV. They are an essential component of the long-
> term care of people with HIV. To remove them would leave a lot of vulnerable people
> stranded.”

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