A new campaign has been launched to secure funding for HIV research after it was revealed that youth infection rates were rising.

The It Ain't Over campaign, run by Restless Development and Youth Stop Aids, aims to increase funding and education surrounding HIV and Aids.

Aids is still one of the biggest killers of adolescents in the world, with 64,000 people dying from the disease in 2017.

And in young people, 1.8m new adolescents were diagnosed with HIV in 2016, making them the only age group to see an increase in the number of infections.

Michael, 33, is a gay man living with HIV from Glasgow.

He was diagnosed in 2016 after taking a home testing kit and is now classed as HIV Positive - Undetectable, meaning traces of the disease are so low in his system that as long as he continues to take medication it will never affect his health and he will never be able to pass it on.

But when he was first diagnosed, Michael said that he thought it was a "death sentence" due to his lack of education about the disease.

"When the test came back positive, I was devastated", Michael said.

"I didn't know that there were any treatments. The only thing I could relate back to was the film Philadelphia.

"In high school, we were never educated on sexual health so the only thing I was ever told about HIV was 'stay away from it, it's a deadly disease'.

"In society, we don't discuss HIV because of the stigma that still surrounds it. People just ignore it.

"Even with myself, when I was diagnosed I was 31, and I considered HIV to be the disease of the older generation, something that was over and done with."

Michael is campaigning for more education in schools surrounding HIV and Aids, saying that with good sexual health, it would be possible to eradicate the disease.

Education in young people is also one of the campaign goals of It Ain't Over.

A statement said: "The UK has traditionally been seen as a world leader in the HIV and Aids response, but in recent years its political leadership seems to have dropped off.

"In July 2018, the International Aids conference will be held in Amsterdam. This crucial forum is held every two years, but UK politicians haven't turned up for years.

"We are therefore urging the UK Government to proudly and publicly demonstrate its commitment to ending Aids by 2030 and to ensure that a minister attends the conference with a youth delegate."