The Naz Project, which provides sexual health information and support to people from Asian and Latin American communities, celebrated its 10th birthday last month. Pictured at the party after their AGM are director Bryan Teixeira (left) and one of the project's sexual health workers.
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Unfair
funding for gay men
Gay Men Fighting Aids reports that HIV spending for gay men from the capital's
16 health authorities represents only 8.6 per cent of London's HIV prevention
budget - £1.7M out of a total £19.2 million. Biggest spenders
are Camden and Islington and Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham who spend
over £400,000 annually. Four authorities - Redbridge and Waltham
Forest, Bromley, Barking and Havering, and Hillingdon - only spent £2,000
each on gay men's HIV work each year.
Walsall
youth at risk
Figures show a tenfold increase in sexually transmitted infection among
teenagers in
Walsall over the last five years. Teenage cases of gonorrhoea shot up by 1,050 per cent and chlamydia by 466 per cent. "Safe sex messages are not
