HIV in Brighton & Hove

Find out what a Fast Track City is and how this can help us achieve our goal to end new cases of HIV and AIDS by 2030.

About HIV

In the last 10 years there’s been huge advances in HIV testing and treatment.

Watch this short animation to find out about HIV.

The film aims to increase HIV testing and tackle HIV related stigma and discrimination.

Good news about HIV

In Brighton & Hove 99% of people living with HIV are on effective treatment and unable to ‘Pass It On’.

Find out more about the Can't Pass It On campaign.

We sometimes call this Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U). This means that a person living with HIV who is on treatment and has an undetectable viral load cannot sexually transmit HIV. 

Go to the Prevention Access Campaign website for more information

Fast Track Cities (FTC)

Brighton & Hove became the first UK Fast Track City in 2017. This means we're committed to ending new cases of HIV and AIDS by 2030 by working in partnership with NHS services and Voluntary Sector Organisations. 

We're collaborating with a national and global network of other Fast Track Cities, as well as our local communities. 

We have a Local HIV Action Plan based on the National HIV Action Plan which was published in 2022. 

The aim is to ensure that everyone in Brighton & Hove can access free world class HIV prevention, and the support they need. 

By 2030, our goal is to achieve: 

  • ZERO-HIV stigma
  • ZERO-new HIV infections 
  • ZERO-deaths from HIV 

This is called “getting to zero”.

Increasing testing

The first step towards zero new HIV infections is to increase HIV testing so that it becomes routine and normalised. 

Find out where to get an HIV test.

Get more support with HIV on our support with your sexual health page.

Getting To Zero in Brighton & Hove

By the end of 2023, our progress in Getting To Zero for Brighton & Hove was: 

  • 95% of people living with HIV are aware of their diagnosis
  • 99% of those diagnosed are taking treatment
  • 99% of those on treatment have achieved undetectable virus in their blood stream. 

New HIV infections have been falling yearly, however in 2023 more Brighton & Hove residents were newly diagnosed due to the success of opt-out screening in the hospital's emergency department.  

We now estimate that the number of people living in Brighton & Hove with undiagnosed HIV is around 100.

HIV Stigma

Go to the Martin Fisher Foundation to find out about HIV Stigma.

Get involved

You can:

  • get tested for HIV and get your friends to test for HIV
  • use condoms
  • use PrEP if you're at risk
  • talk openly about HIV
  • treat people living with HIV the same as anyone else
  • call out stigmatising behaviours if you see or hear them
  • become an HIV Ally - keep up to date with HIV Stigma events and what you can do to help

Sign up to be an HIV ally

More information on Fast Track Cities

The FTC Toward Zero Taskforce is a group of people and organisations already working to tackle HIV with a focus on intensifying HIV prevention and treatment work.

The Taskforce encourages and supports collaboration across a wide range of multi-partner groups including clinicians, community providers, academics and service-users who have worked together across many co-designed projects.

These projects include: