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Jane Anderson

In the 1990s an HIV diagnosis was likely a death sentence. Today, this is not the case. If diagnosed early and treated appropriately, HIV positive people can live as fulfilled and long a life as anybody else. However despite this, there remains one important feature which has not yet been tackled. Stigma.

Getting to zero

Jane Anderson is a consultant physician in HIV medicine at Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Hackney, East London, and has honorary academic appointments at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, and at University College London. Jane has spent her working life in London, qualifying from St Mary’s Hospital, and becoming senior lecturer at St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College. She established the first dedicated HIV service in East London before transferring to Homerton Hospital to setup and direct the Centre for the Study of Sexual Health and HIV. Between 2013 and 2016 Jane undertook a part time secondment to Public Health England, and in 2016 became a Visiting Fellow at The King’s Fund. Jane is chair of the National AIDS Trust, a past chair of the British HIV Association and an Assistant of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries.