Completed Drupal site or project URL: https://tht.org.uk

Terrence Higgins Trust are working towards a world where people living with HIV are empowered and supported to live healthy lives. We built a website that helps them access testing and counselling when they need it, and that campaigns for an end to discrimination.

To enhance interaction with audiences and represent the vast breadth and value of their work, we rebuilt the Terrence Higgins Trust’s core website and crucial online services, making them accessible to more, wherever.

The most recent estimate suggests there were 89,400 people living with HIV in England in 2016. Of these, around 10,400 are undiagnosed so do not know they are HIV positive.

However, diagnoses of HIV have been declining since their peak in 2005. This has come as a result of increased condom use, more regular testing, improved availability of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and quick response of medication to slow down virus growth, in turn slowing HIV.

The continuation of this positive decline depends on sustained prevention efforts from organisations like Terrence Higgins Trust - the largest voluntary sector provider of HIV and sexual health services in the UK.

Terrence Higgins Trust have ambitious goals. One of which is to contribute to the end of HIV transmissions, another to test 100,000 people per year for HIV. However, delivering on the strategy to achieve these goals requires a strong digital service available to all on any device.

The reality for the team at Terrence Higgins Trust was as follows:

- Parts of the corporate site spec were almost 10 years old
- A complex and expensive incumbent Content Management System making routine updates to website content time consuming and overall poor value for the cost of running the website
- Centralised editing meant that sharing out was made difficult
- Lack of responsiveness - only 36% of website traffic in 2016 was from desktop computers. 64% was from mobile or tablet but the site wasn’t optimised for it