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A Letter to HIV on the 16th Anniversary of My Diagnosis

I know that thanks to you I had to take a very good look at myself, and the world. I had to look straight in the eyes of death and illness. Thanks to you I stopped taking my life for granted. I had to ask difficult questions to myself. Recognise my fragilities, and my responsibilities. What was most painful: I had to question the possibility of love and intimacy.

Published
04 February 2013
From
Speaking Up! blog
Health services and systems
New guidance to support organisations to deliver peer support for people with long term conditions

Organisations delivering or planning to deliver peer support for people with long term conditions will be able to find out more about its benefits and good practice thanks to a new guidance by the Mental Health Foundation Peer Support in Long Term Conditions: the Basics.

Published
01 October 2012
From
Mental Health Foundation
Money, benefits and housing
NAT launches new report on HIV social care spending and services

NAT today launches ‘HIV social care in England – a survey of local council funding’, looking into how HIV social care spending and services have changed over time.  This report compares results with a similar survey from NAT in 2008.  

Published
09 August 2012
From
NAT press release
Finding support
Pets help women manage HIV/AIDS: Study

A spoonful of medicine goes down a lot easier if there is a dog or cat around. Having pets is helpful for women living with HIV/AIDS and managing their chronic illness, according to a new study from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University.

Published
24 January 2012
From
Moreover.com HIV/AIDS feed
Finding support
Public Service award winner - myhiv.org.uk

The website myhiv.org.uk is part of Terrence Higgins Trust's (THT) LifePlus package of services, which is helping to transform the lives of people living with HIV in the UK.

Published
23 November 2011
From
The Guardian
Taking an HIV test
Dead scared of taking the HIV/AIDS test

It is a well- known fact that more women than men know their HIV status and that it would be great if more men went for testing. What is not so well known, and I speak from personal experience, are the inner struggles that men have to confront before going for testing.

Published
05 November 2011
From
The Zimbabwean
New Technologies May Increase Adherence to HIV Drugs

New technologies may help HIV-positive people adhere to their pill regimens, The Minnesota Daily reports. Keith Horvath, a University of Minnesota researcher, built a “Facebook-like” website last spring that allowed participants to network with other people with HIV.

Published
05 November 2011
From
AIDSMeds.com
Ageing and HIV
Assisted Living with HIV: A New Reality as Treatments Improve

With HIV striking the aging population at an alarming rate and with survivors living beyond their expectancy, assisted living communities and skilled nursing facilities may begin to see an influx of HIV-positive residents.  Not only are these communities going to need to be prepared for the medical needs of such patients but also for the psycho-social needs of the aging survivors.

Published
06 June 2011
From
Senior Homes
Money, benefits and housing
UK: Disabled people stage protest over spending cuts

Disabled people and their families have held a protest in central London against government spending cuts.

Published
12 May 2011
From
BBC
Finding support
New UK government plans for social care

Speaking in Parliament yesterday the Secretary of State for Health (Mr Andrew Lansley) announced that he has laid before Parliament the Government's response to the Health Select Committee's report on social care.

Published
15 July 2010
From
Disability Alliance
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