Jamie Wareham, Contributor

You have to be careful when comparing any infectious disease to another. But with HIV and Monkeypox, there are lessons to learn.

‘Anxious bisexual’ Charlotte Fountaine struggled with her identity and panic attacks in school – so she created Kalda to stop others feeling the same

Experts have been racing to work out why the virus has been spreading between people in a way not recognised by previous definitions and paremeters.

Honorary assistant professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said the response to monkeypox had been “incompetent and frustrating.”

The misinformation around monkeypox has felt all too familiar for many in the LGBTQ community.

A new report has identified the extent of how the loss of spaces, lockdowns and loneliness has detrimentally hit the community’s lives in the UK.

The UK’s first ever National Conversion Therapy Helpline launched this week to support victims and survivors of so-called LGBTQ “conversion therapy”.

TransActual UK says it’s more evidence of the high levels of daily discrimination faced by trans and non-binary people in the UK.

There are key lessons from the way we have tackled HIV, particularily in the LGBTQ community has learned to talk about sexual health, that can guide all of us and our path out of the pandemic.