In this series, Positive Life tells the story of the people involved in providing care for those living with and affected by HIV in Northern Ireland. This month we hear from Joan Anderson, a complimentary therapist who works at Positive Life one day a week, providing massages and other therapies to people living with HIV. “I try to create a …
Last month, Positive Life won a GSK Impact Award for our work with people affected by and living with HIV in Northern Ireland. They made a short video about us which is now on our homepage and which you can watch below:
The Science Museum in London has over 300,000 items, attracts 3.3 million visitors every year and on the 16 May it played host to the GSK IMPACT Awards. The awards are a national programme that recognise and reward the best small and medium sized charities that are doing excellent work to improve people’s health and wellbeing in communities across the …
In Northern Ireland we really struggle to talk openly about sex and sexual health. There is a culture of embarrassment and shame about it which makes it easier to just avoid talking about sex and sexual health altogether. I call it the Northern Ireland effect – it’s founded in our conservative and often faith based beliefs around all things sexy!. …
For the past 3 weeks we’ve had the pleasure of having James and Leah join the team at Positive Life to gain an understanding of what it’s really like to live with HIV in 2019. Having studied Medicine at Queen’s University for the past 3 years, they have been taught how to diagnose HIV and know the different treatment options …
We would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Below is our office opening hours over the holidays… We are closed from Monday 24th December and will re-open Thursday 3rd January at 10.00am. If you require general information during the holidays please contact the National AIDS Helpline on 0300 123 7123 or if you’re …
Few famous faces show their support…
This week, Lloyd Russell-Moyle made headlines across the country for having the courage to stand up in the House of Commons and tell the world that he is HIV positive. The representative for Brighton Kemptown is the first MP to reveal his HIV status in the House of Commons. In his speech he said “I finally wanted to be able …
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It’s great to be able to talk about the latest very positive news from the Department of Health – not only has a significant amount of the recent Health Transformation Fund been allocated to Sexual Health, but specifically it means that a new £450,000 HIV prevention pilot programme will be rolled out. As part of that pilot project, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis …
