An MP has revealed he is living with HIV during a House of Commons debate. Kevin McKenna, Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP, became the third MP to share his HIV status as he spoke in a debate in Westminster Hall on Thursday. Mr McKenna said visiting friends with HIV in hospital as a young man helped him to consider getting into his former career as a nurse. Encouraging people to “just get tested”, he said: “It is just a little scratch on the finger and there should be no stigma.” The Labour MP, who was newly elected in the 2024 General Election, said: “You won’t pass this disease on when you’re treated. You won’t suffer. And honestly it’s boring and mundane.” Mr McKenna was the third MP to speak openly about his HIV status following Lord Chris Smith in 2005 and former Brighton Kemptown MP Lloyd Russell Moyle in 2018.
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