{"id":2635,"date":"2025-02-10T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-gaystarnewscouk.gmg-staging.link\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2025-02-27T08:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T08:40:22","slug":"keir-starmer-hiv-test-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev-gaystarnewscouk.gmg-staging.link\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/keir-starmer-hiv-test-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer On Why He Publicly Got Tested For HIV – Exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Keir Starmer has become the first serving Prime Minister and G7 leader to publicly get tested for HIV<\/a>, something he said would hopefully help tackle stigma around people knowing their status. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In support of National HIV Testing Week (which runs from 10-16 February), he did a rapid home test at Downing Street, an option that is available for free to the public during this period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to get the message out because I don\u2019t think people necessarily know who\u2019s most at risk,\u201d he told Gay Star News during an exclusive interview<\/a> shortly after doing the test. \u201cTherefore, they don\u2019t think they\u2019re at risk, [and] they wouldn\u2019t necessarily get tested.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Prime Minister added that he sees \u201ctwo problems\u201d surrounding HIV testing at present: \u201cOne is the stigma of, \u2018I don\u2019t want to know.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe other is the sort of complacency and, I suppose, \u2018I don’t need to know.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBoth of those need to be tackled at every level, and if that can be tackled on a preventative level, really good, but in any event, testing is needed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd that’s why, whoever you are, having a test is really simple, really easy, and everybody should get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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