Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the (a) quality and (b) quantity of HIV research on trans men.
The Department commissions research through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), the largest public funder of health research in the United Kingdom. The NIHR funds a wide range of research on HIV. Transgender men are named as potential study participants and beneficiaries of the results of the research of several NIHR funded research projects across programmes including the Public Health Research Programme and Research for Patient Benefit Programme, with a combined value of just under £8.5 million. The NIHR continues to welcome funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including on HIV in transgender men.