Martin Fisher Foundation
Working together TOWARDS ZERO HIV
Martin Fisher Foundation
Working together TOWARDS ZERO HIV
Towards Zero - Our Progress!
Great news! By the end of 2022 we helped achieve:
95% of people living with HIV in Brighton and Hove knowing their status
99% of people being on effective treatment
99% of people with HIV on treatment being unable to pass the infection on to others due to untraceable levels of virus in the blood stream
We are absolutely delighted that Dr Ranj Singh is narrating our newest release of our HIV animation
Ending new HIV transmissions in this city and the UK is now within our grasp!!
The Martin Fisher Foundation was founded in 2015 to take forward the work of Professor Martin Fisher. We continue to promote Martin’s ethos of treating people living with HIV with dignity, compassion and respect, and are developing new strategies for effective HIV prevention, treatment and care.
TOWARDS ZERO HIV
We are working together towards ZERO new HIV infections, ZERO HIV-related deaths, and ZERO HIV stigma in Brighton & Hove. We have a unique opportunity to eliminate new HIV cases within the next generation. We know around 1:20 people with HIV are unaware of their infection and may be unknowingly passing on the infection to others.
If we can increase HIV testing across the city and reach the undiagnosed proportion, then they can start effective treatment which will completely suppress the virus. Once suppressed, or undetectable, the virus is untransmittable.
Undetectable equals untransmittable U=U.
By simultaneously improving access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a tablet people at risk can take to prevent HIV acquisition (a bit like contraception to prevent pregnancy), we aim to move TOWARDS ZERO new infections.
And by improving knowledge around HIV and ensuring the whole population has up-to-date information we also hope to move TOWARDS Zero HIV-stigma.
News & Updates
Two valued Trustees standing down from the charity
Dr Rob James: We are sorry to lose Rob as a Trustee but immensely grateful for his support of the Charity over the last six years. He has been a … Read more
Martin Fisher Foundation researcher awarded grant to tackle HIV stigma
Sonia Raffe, a registrar doctor at the Lawson Unit in Brighton, successfully applied to the British HIV Association on behalf of the Martin Fisher Foundation to develop and implement an … Read more
2nd UK & Ireland Fast Track City Conference November 2020
This conference was brilliantly put together and hosted by IAPAC (International Association of Providers of AIDS Care) and made possible with sponsorship from Gilead.
World Aids Day 2020
For World AIDS Day 2020, being unable to meet together in person in light of the Coronavirus pandemic, local HIV organisations from across Brighton & Hove as well as key … Read more
Just released the HIV Commission Report
We welcome and embrace the important findings of the HIV Commission Report which supports so many of our own aims and objectives. From opt-out HIV testing in healthcare settings, to … Read more
Become a Co-op member and help us raise funds!
The Martin Fisher Foundation charity has been selected by the Coop Local Community Fund as one of three local charities that Coop members can raise money for from October 2020 … Read more
