Julian Hows has been involved in LGBT activism since the 1970's, and HIV activism since the start of the epidemic in the UK. He currently works with the HIV Justice Network which is the leading community-based non-governmental organisation building a co-ordinated, effective global response to HIV criminalisation. He started working in HIV (rather than just volunteering) in the 1990s – a few years after his HIV diagnosis – realising that he was not going to die, unlike so many of his friends and lovers. From 2010 to 2017 he worked at the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) being responsible for several programmes and ground breaking initiatives such as the Global Criminalisation Scan, the People Living with HIV Stigma Index, and the mapping of the barriers to testing and treatment in Europe.
