Here’s what caught my eye this month.

It is a hot and dry summer here in the UK.

The landmark Teenage Pregnancy Strategy was published in 1999, with the aim of addressing high rates of teenage pregnancy in England. The work it catalysed resulted in significant progress, with a 72%...

Here’s what caught my eye this month.

Here’s what caught my eye this month.

By Maia Shouksmith, Foundation year 1 resident doctor and Alhaji Bangura, PhD scholar, University of Wolverhampton When NHS England leaders warn that the health service is on “high alert” because of a...

Perhaps, like me and many of my top-half-lion, bottom-half-man centaur friends, you have been considering the potential health benefits of giving up alcohol.

Here’s what caught my eye this month.

It has been a dry spring here in Norfolk.

Drawing from their research, Q members Catherine Harrison and Bryan Jones explain how redressing the balance between transactional systems and relational…

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Here’s what caught my eye this month.

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WHO is seeking submissions of case examples, good practice documentation, and programme descriptions on the use of facility-based HIV self-testing to support optimization of HIV self-testing and to ga...

To assist the team with activities related to SDG 3.9.1 and 11.6.2 and other health statistics, to interact with WHO Global Air Pollution and Health – Technical Advisory Group, as well as to contribut...

Jake will explore pandemics as ecological events shaped by how we alter landscapes and interact with wildlife, highlighting the pathogens most likely to spill over and what truly works to prevent futu...

From talks to information sessions, GCHA organises several events throughout the year.

Here’s what caught my eye this month.

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Today is World Wildlife Day (3rd March) and the theme this year is ‘medicinal and aromatic plants’.

Nuala Hampson will demonstrate The Medicines Waste in Care Homes Project. Care homes dispose of £50 million worth of unused medicines every year, but the impact of medicines waste goes far beyond fina...

1 in 2 people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. This year two members of my Norfolk family have been diagnosed with cancer. Sam's stepmother, Jenny, was diagnosed with breast cancer. ...

Eight years after it started, the final results of a large French study that offered a choice of daily or event-driven oral PrEP (using tenofovir disoproxil/emtricitabine) were presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2026) in Denver, US yesterday.

Peter Staley’s talk at the opening session of the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2026) in Denver was a grim post-mortem of one of the most challenging years in recent HIV history – an ‘annus horribilis’ – a phrase Queen Elizabeth II used to describe 1992 and The Lancet applied to 2025.

Norfolk County Council worked with Hitch Marketing to increase PrEP awareness among women at heightened HIV risk who were under-served by mainstream health messaging.

From talks to information sessions, GCHA organises several events throughout the year.