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On Thursday, 12 June 2025, Waverley Care hosted a parliamentary roundtable event, The Road to 2030 – Progress Towards Ending HIV Transmission in Scotland, in partnership with Terrence Higgins Trust and kindly sponsored by Gilead Sciences.

Public Health Scotland has published its ‘Progress Towards Ending HIV Transmission in Scotland by 2030 Mid Plan Report.

We are thrilled and honoured to be the charity partner of Gilded Balloon's 'Pink Wednesday' 2025!

In partnership with Terrence Higgins Trust, we have today [31 July 2025] published: "Progress towards ending HIV transmission in Scotland: Assessing the HIV Transmission Elimination Delivery Plan."

We spoke with Wendy Cooper, Development Manager, who leads Waverley Care’s Prison Link Project, supporting people in prison or connected to the justice system who are living with a blood borne virus, helping them stay safe, healthy, and supported inside and beyond prison.

We spoke with Talal Ahmed, Community Engagement Officer at Waverley Care. Talal works with Minority Ethnic communities in Scotland, helping people access information, HIV testing, PrEP, and support in a way that feels safe and respectful. 

A Fond Farewell to Milestone House: A New Chapter for Waverley Care For over three decades, Milestone House has been a sanctuary of care, compassion and community for people living with HIV. It was the UK’s first purpose-built AIDS hospice, and it holds an important place in both Waverley Care’s history and the lives of countless individuals and families. But as the landscape of HIV care has changed, so must we.

HIV organisations have come together to call for the EHRC draft guidelines to be withdrawn.

This year, we spoke with Iain, Waverley Care’s Peer Support and Volunteering Coordinator (East), to learn more about how peer volunteers are transforming lives and what they mean to the wider work of Waverley Care. Our volunteers play a vital role in everything we do; from fundraising and events to trustees on our board and direct peer support.

For this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week, which focuses on the theme of ‘community’ we spoke to Thomas, Peer Support and Volunteer Coordinator at Waverley Care about how volunteers and community support can make a real difference to people’s mental health that are living with or affected by blood-borne viruses (BBVs).

Scotland is often praised for having some of the best HIV health outcomes in the world. Yet, for many people living with HIV, accessing mental health support remains a real challenge. People living with HIV in the UK are 63% more likely to be diagnosed with a mental illness compared to people without HIV . Likewise, two in five people living with HIV currently have a diagnosis of at least one mental health condition – substantially higher that the population average .

This Transgender Day of Visibility, we’re shining a light on a vital new sexual health clinic in Edinburgh for trans and nonbinary people in partnership with LGBT Health & Wellbeing, LGBT Youth Scotland, and NHS Lothian.