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Jan 11, 2025 | 
sti.bmj.com | Drieda Zace |Marina Daskalopoulou |Rachel Herbert |Giovanni Villa
Viral suppression (VS) following initiation of long-acting cabotegravir/rilpivirine (LA-CAB/RPV) among people with HIV, adherence challenges and baseline viraemiaThe Ward 86 publicly funded San Francisco HIV clinic serves people experiencing socioeconomic, psychological and adherence challenges. This study examined the persistence of LA-CAB/RPV and durability of VS (HIV RNA <50 c/mL) at 48 weeks among 59 participants (53% unstable housing, 63% substance use and 49% CD4 <200 cells/mm3).
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
henleyherald.com | Rachel Herbert
Laurence Menswear owner, Laurence Morris, popped into The Chiltern Centre on Thursday to drop off a donation for £1000 to the Henley charity. £850 of the total came from local residents donations’ collected at the Christmas Festival evening held in the town centre. The amount was then rounded up to £1000 by Laurence himself.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
henleyherald.com | Rachel Herbert
Despite the weekend’s snowy conditions, Badgemore Golf Club’s AGM went ahead on Saturday and saw out going Men’s Club Captain, Melvyn Keen, present a cheque for £12,853.82 to Charlotte Dingley, who was representing the charity Cure Usher Syndrome. Every year, the club captain chooses a charity to fundraise for during their time in the post and Melvyn explained that he wanted to choose a charity that was smaller and less well known than some and something close to his heart.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
henleyherald.com | Rachel Herbert
Christmas celebrations were in full swing on Monday afternoon, when Bluebells Day Centre held their annual Christmas party. The charity, which provides day care two days a week for those living with dementia, invited friends, family and carers along to the Christ Church Centre in Henley, where the group meet.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
henleyherald.com | Rachel Herbert
This year’s Mayor’s Christmas card has been created by Clemmie O’Hanlon, Trinity School’s first winner of the annual competition. This year’s theme was ‘A Merry Christmas on the River in Henley’ and Clemmie, aged 7, beat off stiff competition from over 60 other entries. The Mayor, Councillor Rory Hunt and his consort and Mum Lindsay Hunt judged the competition last Wednesday and the lucky winners and runners up were then told. Clemmie said “I was so excited when I heard.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
henleyherald.com | Rachel Herbert
Young dancers, Lucy Herbert and her partner, James Seale have been competing together in Ballroom and Latin dancing for the last year and a half and recently won the U21 categories of both Latin and Ballroom, at The West of England Championships, held in Bristol. Lucy, who lives in Henley, began her dancing in a weekly after school club at Valley Road School, run by Miles School of Dancing owner, Richard Miles.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
henleyherald.com | Rachel Herbert
Greener Henley and their Schools Action Group, hosted the first ever Science Fair for local schools at Henley College on Wednesday. The theme ‘Pollution in its many forms’ saw stands and activities that delved into the themes of air, light, water, chemical and plastic pollution. In all, 120 children from 16 schools took part, with primary age pupils able to move around and enjoy the activity tables facilitated by students from local secondary schools and The Henley College.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
henleyherald.com | Rachel Herbert
Henley ladies 1s and 2s are both flying high in their respective hockey leagues, a refreshing change after both teams having had tricky seasons in 23/24. Both teams play in the South Central Women’s hockey league with the 1s being in Premier division 2 and the 2s being in South Division 3 North. The first XI, who currently sit level at the top of their table on points with Southampton, played 3rd in the table team, South Berks, at home on Saturday and scored 3 good goals to secure their top spot.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
sti.bmj.com | Rachel Herbert |Marina Daskalopoulou
Gender and ethnicity disparity in HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis use following routine commissioning in EnglandIn England, HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) was initially available through the Impact trial (2017–2020), which primarily comprised of men who have sex with men (MSM)1. This study compared changes in PrEP access following the roll-out of commissioned, routine HIV PrEP in 2021. Overall PrEP use increased threefold, with use in heterosexual men increasing from 1% to 13%.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
sti.bmj.com | Rachel Herbert |Nadja A. Vielot
Published in STI: Self-start HIV postexposure prophylaxis after sexual exposure to reduce time to first doseThe efficacy of HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) increases with a shorter time to treatment initiation.
