A majority of men living with HIV say the condition is having no negative impact on their working life, although a significant minority are experiencing discrimination, according to a new report. The Working with HIV report, by the National AIDS Trust (NAT) and London’s City University, includes the first major survey of the workplace experiences [...]

The government is set to extend a scheme that provides extra support that allows mental health service-users to find and retain jobs. Early results from a pilot project in London, run with the mental health charity Mind, show that more than 90 per cent of those who took part are finding or retaining paid work. [...]

Many primary school pupils believe disabled people live tragic lives in which they cannot work and are unlikely to marry or have children, according to new research. The Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds, which conducted the research, found that many children at primary school have a poor understanding of disability and [...]

People with muscular dystrophy are living years longer in some parts of the country than in others because of an “unacceptable” variation in services, according to a report by MPs and peers. The Walton Report, by the all party parliamentary group for muscular dystrophy, concludes that specialist neuromuscular services in many areas fall “well below [...]

Leading campaigners say they are shocked and disappointed at the London Mayor’s failure to set a target around disability hate crime in his official equality document. Andrew Little, chief executive of Inclusion London, the capital’s new pan-disability organisation, said he was “shocked” that the equality document omits any mention of tackling disablist hate crime even [...]