HIV fertility rights, explained

Just two months prior to World AIDS Day (December 1), people living with HIV in the UK won the right to donate their sperm or eggs to their partners.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act was approved by parliament in October, removing what the National AIDS Trust (NAT) said was an “unjust, homophobic, and unscientific barrier” that has “prevented both people living with HIV who are LGBT+, and anyone seeking to donate eggs to an HIV negative person, from becoming parents through fertility treatment”.

They now have the same access to fertility treatments as everyone else.

Adam Freedman, a Policy, Research, and Influencing manager at NAT, told Pink News that the updated law has made “people’s dreams come true”.

“People that thought when they were diagnosed with HIV that they

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