11 August 2011
POSITIVELY UK have announced that the next conference for people living with HIV in the UK will take place on 24th September 2011. The one day conference titled ‘No Decision About Me without Me’ will be coordinated by Positively UK and run in partnership with HIV charities NAT and the THT. The conference objective is [...]
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13 April 2011
Despite the devastating floods that affected Queensland and parts of northern New South Wales, Victoria and north-eastern Tasmania…I had a wonderful time on my trip to Australia. Of course…the flooding resulted in my having constantly to change plans…so I didn’t get to see the Great Barrier Reef, Melbourne or the Great Ocean Road. Good enough [...]
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19 March 2011
ACET, Jersey’s only charity dedicated to HIV social care, prevention and education faces a service delivery crisis after the islands government announce budget cuts. HIV prevention and social care services will disappear, as the charity is forced to make staff redundant, putting a question mark over the charities ability to survive in the long-term, if [...]
01 March 2011
LAST Wednesday saw probably the last local authority sponsored HIV conference, ‘Positively Together’. Organised by the Sheffield Centre for sexual Health, the overwhelming mood of the event was of the need to be positive in the face of an uncertain future. Unfortunately the headline speaker, Baroness Joyce Gould, was prevented from attending by illness, and [...]
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28 February 2011
As councils across the country ratify budgets laden with cuts to services and jobs. Swathes of pensioners, mums and dads students and youngsters started to interrupt the process, making sure that those in power ‘NOW’ knew, in no uncertain terms, the outrage of the general populous. It was a good sight to see. But what [...]
28 February 2011
A NEW survey launched by NAT (National AIDS Trust) has found that large numbers of the British public are confused about HIV transmission and that misconceptions about the HIV still exist. But encouragingly 70% understand that someone becoming infected with HIV in the UK is unlikely to die within three years and 74% say that people [...]
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27 February 2011
A REPORT published in the Journal of Viral Hepatitis says 13,000 people who are living with HIV in the UK may also have Hepatitis C but not realise it. This represents nearly 70% of the total estimate of people with HIV and Hep C in the UK. The report is based on a study by the [...]
27 February 2011
I am taking three types of drugs at the moment in two pill formats, one is Sustiva which is my Efavirenz and the other is Truvada which is a combination of both Emtricitabine and Tenofovir. They are not bad sized pills and quite easy to swallow so taking them is not a problem. Well, I [...]
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21 January 2011
It has got to that stage now where I have time to think what is right for me in the way of antiretroviral medication ARV’s, also known as ‘combination therapy.’ I am looking at it from the view that if I leave it any longer, then I will not have the opportunity to look at [...]
21 January 2011
Here is the speech I gave at The Sophia Forum Round Table meeting, at the House of Lords yesterday. ” I would like to thank the Sophia Forum for inviting me to speak today, and for all of you for being here. I am a woman living with HIV and I work at Positively UK [...]
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