National AIDS Trust chief executive Deborah Gold is to stand down after nearly a decade leading the HIV rights charity.

She joined the charity in 2014 and had previously held interim leadership roles at Disability Action Islington and the London Voluntary Service Council.

Gold had also spent six years as chief executive at LGBT+ anti abuse charity Galop.

“Leading National AIDS Trust for close to ten years has been the greatest honour of my career,” she said.

“With the opportunity to meet and work with so many amazing people, inside and outside the organisation, every day in this job has been a pleasure. I am enormously proud of the achievements of our outstanding team who, alongside our partners, have made sure the HIV landscape in the UK is unrecognisable compared to a decade ago.

“This is now the right time for the organisation to flourish with new leadership. I know it will go on to have many more great successes in the future.”

National AIDS Trust is now advertising for a replacement for Gold.

The charity’s chair Jane Anderson added “Deborah has steadfastly steered National AIDS Trust through an unprecedented era which included significant changes to the funding landscape, huge developments in HIV, and COVID-19.

“Along with our colleagues in the wider sector who have benefitted from her expertise, passion and leadership, we will miss her enormously.”

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