Positive Prevention Conference

posted: 23/05/2011

We are delighted to invite people and organisations already involved in 'Positive Prevention' activities to our free Positive Prevention Conference, in Manchester, Friday 1st July, 10.30 - 4.30pm

The booking form can be downloaded if you Read More below.

Positive Prevention means meeting the support and sexual health needs of people diagnosed with HIV and so reduce the risk of onward HIV transmission.

This conference is only for people and organisations already doing Positive Prevention activities. This might include campaigns against HIV stigma and discrimination.

George House Trust's positive prevention work, for example, provides one to one support, group 'peer support' spaces, five-session courses for newly diagnosed people, and reflective facilitated residential weekends for people who have been diagnosed longer than 12 months. This work and this conference is funded by the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

Share Best Practice and discuss Minimum Standards

This Conference is to share the experience and best practice of organisations and individuals already providing Positive Prevention support to gay men, women, and Africans, and to consider developing minimum standards for Positive Prevention.

Positive Prevention Conference
Friday 1st July 2011, at Ardwick Green North, Manchester M12 6FZ: 5 - 10 minutes walk from Manchester Piccadilly Rail
 

Programme

10.00 Registration & coffee
10.30 Welcomes and Introduction
 

10.45 Involving people living with HIV in positive prevention

• Presentations describing various ways people living with HIV are involved
• Discussion: enabling people living with HIV to challenge providers and commissioners about meeting sexual health needs when people are living with HIV and improving involvement

11.30 Tea & Coffee break
 

11.45 Recipes for positive prevention – what’s needed?
Presentations providing an overview and meeting the specific needs of 3 groups – gay men, women and Africans

• Small Group discussions on the needs of people living with HIV and how best these can be met
• Debate the key elements and the minimum provision of positive prevention that HIV+ people should expect

1pm LUNCH and networking : lunch provided
 

1.45pm Workshops - How do you do it?

• Small groups identify the critical ingredients for effective positive prevention for the three groups - gay men, women and Africans

2.45pm Tea & Coffee break
 

3pm Evidencing & Measuring

Gathering evidence and measuring effectiveness of Positive Prevention activities
 

3.30pm Panel Discussion: Agreeing Minimum Standards and Next Step Recommendations
 

4.20 Closing words
Close at 4.30

Please complete and return this booking form to Colin

Please send all Bookings and Enquiries to Colin

 The Elton John AIDS Foundation has funded this conference

Search HIV Conference Papers

posted: 18/04/2011

The Global Forum on Men who have Sex with Men and HIV (MSMGF) have produced a useful searchable online catalogue of all the papers presented at the last International AIDS Conference, held in Vienna - AIDS 2010 - concerning men who have sex with men (MSM) including transgender people.
 

Searchable catalogue of conference abstracts - you can search by global region, sub-populations (groups affected), and themes.
Here’s the list of search categories to make it easier to find what is available.
 

Sub-population (affected groups)
• Bisexual / MSMW
• Ethnic Minorities
• Incarcerated Individuals
• LGBT
• Migrant, Immigrant
• MSM
• Older Sexual Minorities
• People Living with HIV
• People Who Use Drugs
• Rural Populations
• Sex Workers
• Transgender
• Youth
HIV issues
• Access to Services
• Care & Treatment
• Condom Use
• Education
• Epidemiology
• Government AIDS Programs
• HIV & AIDS
• Prevention Interventions (ARV-Based)
• Prevention Interventions (Behavioural)
• Prevention Interventions (General)
• Resilience
• Risk Factors
• Testing
Cross-Cutting Themes / Issues
• Advocacy
• Capacity-Building Assistance
• Civil Society
• Funding
• Gender
• Health (Non-HIV)
• Human Rights
• Mental Health
• Policy and Legislation
• Recreational Drugs
• Religion
• Research
• Self-Identification
• Sexuality
• Sexually Transmitted Infections
• Stigma / Discrimination
• Structural Interventions
• Tools & Trainings
• Violence
 

Searchable catalogue of conference abstracts

Speak at Positive Prevention Conference?

posted: 12/04/2011

George House Trust, the Manchester based HIV support organisation, runs a Positive Prevention project, funded by the Elton John AIDS Foundation. We are holding a free national conference in Manchester on 1st July for staff and organisations doing positive prevention work, to share best practice, and to consider developing minimum standards for Positive Prevention work.

Speakers Wanted

We are inviting people who would like to speak at this conference about their experience in Positive Prevention work to contact us.

Positive Prevention means working to support people living with HIV, where one of the benefits is reducing onward HIV transmission. Positive Prevention at George House Trust includes

• one to one support
• group "peer support" spaces
• courses for people newly diagnosed with HIV and
• reflective residential weekends for people diagnosed with HIV for longer than 12 months.

Most of our weekends and courses have been for gay and bi men, and we have run others for people living with HIV.

Call for speakers
If you

• Are working in an organisation doing ‘positive prevention’ work with people living with HIV, or
• Want to share the positive prevention work you are doing, or
• Have any data from positive prevention work which shows changes in behaviour or knowledge (we want the conference to hear evidence both of what works, and what doesn’t seem to work), or
• Want to highlight aspects of positive prevention work, or
• Are a person with HIV who has taken part in a Positive Prevention project, or
• Want to suggest a speaker with relevant knowledge or experience of Positive Prevention
  we want to hear from you.
   

Presentations can be in any format and would be for the whole conference, of about 35 people.

Please Contact Chris

If you are interested in making a presentation, please email Chris Morley with your proposal by Monday 23rd May .

Interested in attending?
This conference is only for people and organisations already doing Positive Prevention. If you would like to come as a delegate to the Positive Prevention conference, please contact Chris.  
 

What some people with HIV have said about our residential weekends

• The weekend really helped me to identify where I am now - and to look clearly at what I need for the future
• I learned so much from the other men and really now feel focussed on making positive changes
• It helped me connect, and gave me support and direction
• The weekend has given me a real boost and I feel now like I can face some of my issues in a constructive way and really move forward
• Thanks for a great weekend which has helped me think about how I deal with some of my fears and anxieties about living with HIV
• The weekend gave me a sense of space and safety to be able to talk more confidently about living with HIV now and in the future.

HIV Prevention Conference Talks

posted: 11/04/2011

The presentations, from all the speakers at the national CHAPS gay and other men who have sex with men’s (MSM) HIV prevention conference, are now available online. This CHAPS conference was held in Manchester, in March.

The full programme here tells you who the speakers were and more about each talk  
 

Here’s what’s available - the presentations are PowerPoint files. 

If you need a programme to view PowerPoint presentations download the PowerPoint Viewer programme here 
 

Session 1

• Work with prisons
• Advice services for PLHIV
• Advice services for PLHIV 2
• HIV prevention with the over 50s
• Asian MSM
• Sexual health services in the community
• Online initiatives
• Online initiatives 2 - social media
   

Session 2 

• The role of fear in HIV prevention
• Re-engaging the community
• South London HIV Prevention (SLHP) model of HIV prevention 1
• SLHP model of HIV prevention 2
• SLHP model of HIV prevention 3
• SLHP model of HIV prevention 4
• SLHP model of HIV prevention 5
• SLHP model of HIV prevention 6
• European MSM Internet Sex Survey (EMIS)
• Treatment as prevention 1
• Treatment as prevention 2

 Session 3 

• Targeted working
• Transmen 1
• Transmen 2
• Sex workers 1
• Sex workers 2
• Blood donations
• Partner numbers and patterns

Session 4 

• Undiagnosed infection - partner notification
• Undiagnosed infection - MSM
• National LGB Drugs and Alcohol Database
• The role of fear in HIV prevention
• Sexual orientation monitoring
• European MSM Internet Sex Survey - Differences in STI testing
• The changing sexual behaviours of MSM

Session 5 

• Measuring outcomes 1
• Measuring outcomes 2
• Measuring outcomes 3
• Treatment as prevention 1
• Treatment as prevention 2
• Just gay men?
• Condom and lube distribution 1
• Condom and lube distribution 2
• Pornography and gay men's attitudes towards sex, risk and pleasure
• Telling partners about HIV status 1
• Telling partners about HIV status 2

Session 6 

• Re-engaging the community
• HIV and ageing
• Young people and homophobia
• Crystal Meth
• Testing times 1
• Testing times 2

Euro Gay HIV Prevention Conference

posted: 11/04/2011

The Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control is holding a European HIV Prevention for men who have sex with men conference. Men, Men Sex and HIV will be on Thursday 10th and Friday 11th November 2011, in Stockholm, Sweden.
The conference is for

• Government organisations (involved in healthcare, disease control and prevention)
• Other organisations targeting MSM
• Researchers

They want the conference to deal with the rise in HIV and the other sexually transmitted infections (STI) among MSM.

Fresh evidence-based methods of prevention are needed along with more activity to cut HIV and STI transmissions and to develop ‘Second Generation Surveillance’. [Second Generation Surveillance means regular, systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of information for tracking and describing changes in the HIV epidemic over time. It includes gathering information on risk behaviours, and using these to warn about and explain changes in levels of HIV infection].
 

The conference will also help bridge the gap between Western and Eastern European HIV and STI prevention work, by sharing lessons, best practice and research.

They also want the conference to involve commercial and other businesses which can contribute to gay men’s prevention such as bars and clubs and profile websites.
 

Subjects and themes

• Understanding the epidemic
• Vulnerability and social determinants
• Response, Prevention, Intervention and Performance/Outcomes
• Positive Sex and Prevention
• European regional differences
• Co-operation between sectors (academic/governmental/civil society/private and commercial)
• Sustainability
• Empowerment - healthy choices
• Innovative approaches

Conference website