Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website.
Skip to main content
This promotional website is developed and funded by Gilead Sciences Ltd and intended for healthcare professionals in Great Britain.
This promotional website is developed and funded by Gilead Sciences Ltd and intended for healthcare professionals in the UK and Ireland.
Report adverse events

Explore our podcast series providing practical advice and signposts to helpful resources.

HIV in Focus is an educational series aimed at healthcare professionals in the United Kingdom and Ireland, hosted by Dr Naomi Sutton, Consultant Physician of Integrated Sexual Health Services at Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust. Each episode features expert guest speakers providing insight into pressing issues faced by persons living with HIV, from menopause, metabolic syndrome and mental health to stigma and sex. The series also provides practical advice and signposts resources for clinicians to better support and engage with persons living with HIV to improve patient wellbeing and care.

 

 

Podcast host

Dr. Naomi Sutton

Dr. Naomi Sutton headshot

Dr. Naomi Sutton

Dr. Naomi Sutton is a Consultant HIV Physician in Rotherham who has spent her career raising awareness of sexual health for healthcare professionals and the general public through fun and accurate education. Naomi has made several TV appearances including E4’s ‘The Sex Clinic’ and is also a Trustee for Saving Lives UK and is an Ambassador for the Eve Appeal.

Menopause matters for women living with HIV too

In this two-part episode, Dr Naomi Sutton and Dr Shema Tariq have a rousing conversation on a topic rarely discussed in public: menopause in persons living with HIV. 

Is it okay to talk about your weight now?

Professor Donal O'Shea and Dr Ana Milinkovic take Dr Naomi Sutton deeper into the little understood world of metabolic syndrome, providing insight into the complex factors that can give rise to weight gain along an individual's life course.

Healthy ageing

Dr Tom Levett and Dr Naomi Sutton shift the conversation on ageing with HIV, urging a move away from 'frailty' towards a proactive, healthy ageing model.

Driving equity for all

In this episode Dr Vanessa Apea joins Dr Naomi Sutton for a frank discussion on health inequalities, their social and economic determinants, and how they are further compounded for persons living with HIV.

Just about coping

In this episode, Dr Naomi Sutton is joined by Dr Michelle Croston to discuss the mental health continuum and the exacerbated symptoms of depression and anxiety that people living with HIV are more likely to experience than the general population.

Let's talk about sex

Dr Shalini Andrews and Dr Naomi Sutton help listeners navigate their patients through issues of sexual pleasure and (dys)function, in the light of U=U.

Stigma

In the final episode of the series, Susan Cole and Dr Naomi Sutton tackle stigma faced by persons living with HIV (PLWH), the historical narratives of HIV and misinformation still negatively influencing how some clinicians and some of the public perceive HIV, and utilising the power of U=U against stigma and misinformation.

UK-UNB-3442 Date of Preparation March 2023