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World AIDS Day: What more can be done to change behavior in the fight against HIV?

We have come a long way since World AIDS day was introduced in 1988, largely as a day of remembrance for the many people who were losing their lives to this incurable illness. Thanks to medication advances HIV/AIDS is now a manageable chronic condition via a combination of drug treatment and lifestyle self-management techniques. And effective prevention awareness campaigns have seen numbers contracting the disease fall.

Despite this, each year in the UK alone around 5,000 people are diagnosed with HIV, as many people still do not know the facts about how to protect themselves and others, and stigma and discrimination remain a reality for many people living with the condition.