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Consultation Responses
Policy Responses Positively UK champions the rights of people living with HIV. To help achieve this we submit evidence and responses to public consultations.
House of Lords Select Committee on HIV and AIDS in the UK
Recently Positively UK gave evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on HIV and AIDS in the UK.
To download this response click here.
Positively UK gave evidence at the committee meeting recorded on 8 March. You can watch Silvia Petretti, Community Development Manager, giving her expert testimony from 11.40am by clicking below:
For background see the parliamentary website by clicking here.
Evidence to the UK Border Agency on Healthcare Needs Dispersal Guidance was submitted October 2010. To download this response click here.
BHIVA Infant feeding
The British HIV Association recently sought views on guidelines for the feeding for infants of mothers living with HIV. Positively UK welcomes the review and made a joint statement with the UKCab.
We would like to add weight to the concern on the potential for child protection and duty of care issues to come into play with regard to transmission if an HIV positive mother breastfeeds. It is a paradox to take HIV treatment, but to then put your baby at risk of transmission. In our experience of client work it is commonly the mother's protection of her own status that is the motivating factor for breastfeeding, not the wellbeing of the baby. The number of HIV positive mothers in the UK are women in difficult and complex and unstable circumstances makes this understandable, but we caution against a mixed message being given by BHIVA. Being a failed asylum seeker, facing deportation, living in poverty is not conducive to good adherence; that is our current reality. In ideal circumstances and based on individual ability to adhere it may be a realistic to give the message that in certain instances breastfeeding is acceptable, but this is unlikely in our experience.