HIV Positive at NAT
posted: 02/03/2011
NAT (National AIDS Trust) have updated their website by adding a new welcome page for people with HIV. Here you can find all the information from NAT that is most useful for people with HIV.
It saves you from tripping up over the things on their website that you won’t need, like NAT’s guides for employers.
Try the new NAT web door for people with HIV
If you are living with HIV in the UK, this section of NAT's website is designed to provide up-to-date and useful information on issues such as rights, confidentiality, employment, benefits, and much more.
There is also information on how you can become involved with NAT’s work for example by joining their Press Gang.
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Help Create Living with HIV Website
posted: 20/08/2010
Are you interested in helping to create a new website for people living with HIV? You can join a Reader’s Panel to review proposed pages and make suggestions.
A new living with HIV website is being set up. This is funded by the Elton John AIDS Foundation, and will give people living with HIV information and tools to help manage living with HIV better. This website project is run by Terrence Higgins Trust.
The new website will have information and more to meet people’s needs and interests. The contents and images will be aimed at the main groups affected, including African communities, gay men and young people, and it will have a neutral tone so it works for everyone.
Help through Reader’s Panel
People living with HIV are asked to help make the new website a success by joining the Readers' Panel to help review the content and suggest how it can be tailored to fit your needs better. They want a large number of people with HIV to get involved and it's a great way for you to have a say in how the new website works and make sure it has the greatest impact.
People who'd join the Reader’s Panel will be emailed pages one at a time and asked to fill in a short online form after reading each page. The pages are short - about 300 words - and it only take a few moments to read and comment. They want the Panel to look over about 20 pages each, spread over a couple of weeks. You can read and comment in your own time at a rate that suits you.
If you'd like to be involved please apply here
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Website Support for Children with HIV
posted: 17/09/2009
The first UK website to help children with HIV has got the go ahead from the National Lottery. A £50,000 grant will be used to set up a website to provide information, help and support to under-18s.
Faith in People, a Leicester HIV organisation has led the funding bid.
The local newspaper reports that there are about 35 young people with HIV in Leicester and they are too frightened to tell their friends for fear of victimisation. The paper reports the claim that 35 in Leicester is the highest number of young people with HIV outside London, but this is untrue: living in Manchester alone, for example there are 42 people under 19 recorded in HIV and AIDS in the North West of England 2008.
Battling in Silence
The young people in Leicester are said to be ‘battling the illness in silence’. The hope is that the website will help end stigma and break taboos.
Rev Trevor Thurston-Smith, director of the charity Faith in People with HIV , said: "In the past 20 years, there has been not one jot of difference in people's understanding of HIV. If anything, things have gone backwards. It is unbelievable and appalling that the young are still woefully ignorant."
14 year old speaks out
One 14-year-old, who lives in Leicester but wants to remain anonymous, said: "It is sad that you cannot talk to people about HIV because of the stigma, but it is okay to talk about illnesses such as diabetes. At the end of the day, having HIV is just an illness that can be treated like other illnesses that cannot be cured. It was not my fault, I was born with it. If people have a cold, they do not get picked on so why do people with HIV get picked on? They are both viruses."
Mum talks too
His mum is passionate about trying to break down barriers.
She was infected with the virus as a result of a blood transfusion in Africa. It was not until her youngest son was four that she discovered she was HIV positive and had passed the virus to her son.
She said: "I wanted to die. Knowing I gave him that and keeping it to yourself, not being able to tell anyone – it's awful. You have to live a lie. When he asked why he had to take so much medication I told my son he had poorly lungs, asthma, things like that. When he was 12, he asked again and I told him the true reason. One of his first concerns was that he as a grew up he wouldn't be able to have girlfriends or get married and have children. There will be other obstacles as he grows up. I would love to shout from the rooftops about my condition, but I am a strong person and I wouldn't want my son or the rest of the family to be treated as outcasts. No-one outside the immediate family knows and when I hear the ignorance of people talking I would never tell them because of the way we might then be treated."
It is hoped the website will go live early next summer.
Source
HIV - What's the Story campaign
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Namlife Comes Alive
posted: 19/12/2008
Namlife is the new website about living with HIV and it is launched today. NAM (National Aids Manual) are behind it and it is for anyone recently diagnosed, everyone who has lived with HIV for a while, all who know someone who is living with HIV, or the rest of the population who just want to find out more.
Namlife is a space where people can find answers to almost any HIV question and benefit from reading other people's own experiences of living with HIV.
Namlife features sections on
You will find both information and personal stories on sex, work, treatment, travel and the law and far more. Take a look at Namlife now
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