Wanted - Positive Youth Camp Leaders
posted: 23/04/2010
Are you HIV+? Are you aged 18 - 24 on August 23 2010? Want to help run the first ever UK summer camp for HIV+ young people?
CHIVA (Childrens HIV Association) is recruiting fifteen Camp Leaders to help run the first ever CHIVA Summer Camp for HIV+ children and young people, in the last week of August 2010.
Along with staff and volunteers, Camp Leaders will help to run the Summer Camp. They will offer support to participants, organise events and activities and keep the camp running smoothly.
Training and Expenses Included
All Camp Leaders will need to attend a four day training session from Thursday 10th - Monday 14th June 2010. Alongside fun activities, Camp Leaders will receive accredited training from Youthforce on the 'Essentials of working with young people'. All expenses will be paid.
Over 25? - volunteer instead
If you are HIV+ and aged 25 or over in late August, consider becoming a CHIVA camp volunteer instead. Visit the Summer Camp webpage and download volunteering details and an application form - righthand column of web page.
Becoming a Camp Leader - apply before 30 April
For more information download the information pack and application form. The application form must be completed and returned by 5pm April 30 2010.
If you know or work with HIV+ young people please print off the advert about becoming a Camp Leader and pass this on to them.
If you would like any more information about being a Camp Leader please email Tom Burke.
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Asylum Detention Challenges
posted: 23/03/2010
The harsh treatment faced by detained women and children seeking asylum - including women and children with HIV - who are held at Yarl’s Wood will now be closely considered by both the High Court and the British Medical Association.
Three Human Rights Abused
"Lawyers have been granted permission to challenge the government's detention policy, which they claim amounts to "cruel, inhumane and degrading" treatment of women and children.
The High Court has given the go-ahead for a judicial review of the cases of four women held at the Yarl’s Wood detention centre after lawyers claimed their treatment breaches articles three, five and eight of the European convention on human rights. This comes very soon after many women have ended a 5 week hunger strike in protest at the conditions and their treatment.
Jim Duffy, a solicitor at Public Interest Lawyers, which is bringing the case, welcomed the decision. "The case confronts the policy and practice of the Home Office and the private company running Yarls Wood, Serco."
Three Yarl's Wood doctors investigated
Three doctors working at Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre are facing investigation by the General Medical Council, amid calls for healthcare at the centre to be transferred from the private sector to the NHS. Alistair Burt, Tory MP for North East Bedfordshire, (containing Yarl’s Wood) described healthcare as the weak link and that this weakness can only be ended by transferring healthcare to the NHS.
As he points out: "If there is an issue over fitness to travel and the decision is made by a contracted company inside Yarl's Wood, what chance is there of having confidence that it has not been influenced by the contract given to the contractors to get people out of the country?"
More details from Medical Justice 1 and Medical Justice 2 and Medical Justice 3
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Wanted - Positive Youth Camp Leaders
posted: 18/03/2010
Are you HIV+? Are you aged 18 - 24 on August 23 2010? Want to help run the first ever UK summer camp for HIV+ young people?
CHIVA (Childrens HIV Association) is recruiting fifteen Camp Leaders to help run the first ever CHIVA Summer Camp for HIV+ children and young people, in the last week of August 2010.
Along with staff and volunteers, Camp Leaders will help to run the Summer Camp. They will offer support to participants, organise events and activities and keep the camp running smoothly.
Training and Expenses Included
All Camp Leaders will need to attend a four day training session from Thursday 10th - Monday 14th June 2010. Alongside fun activities, Camp Leaders will receive accredited training from Youthforce on the 'Essentials of working with young people'. All expenses will be paid.
Over 25? - volunteer instead
If you are HIV+ and aged 25 or over in late August, consider becoming a CHIVA camp volunteer instead. Visit the Summer Camp webpage and download volunteering details and an application form - righthand column of web page.
Becoming a Camp Leader - apply before 30 April
For more information download the information pack and application form. The application form must be completed and returned by 5pm April 30 2010.
If you know or work with HIV+ young people please print off the advert about becoming a Camp Leader and pass this on to them.
If you would like any more information about being a Camp Leader please email Tom Burke.
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HIV and Children Booklet
posted: 03/02/2010
HIV & Children, NAM’s easy to read booklet is now updated and freshly available. It tells you all about HIV treatment and care for HIV-positive children.
Like all NAM's booklets it’s free to people with HIV
Or read them online
or download the booklets as PDFs from them direct
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HIV and Children Booklet
posted: 14/01/2010
NAM have a new version of their information booklet, HIV & Children. HIV & Children provides the latest information about HIV treatment and care for children living with HIV.
It's free for people living with HIV in the UK.
Other people can buy a copy from the online bookshop for £1.
Free to read online
It can also be read free online or you can download a free copy as a pdf file you can then print out.
Copies for clinics and HIV organisations
If you work in a clinic or support group in the UK, you can order these booklets for free. Get in touch with Rose for details on 020 7840 0060 or by emailing Rose.
All NAM's booklets
read any booklet online
download any booklet as a free pdf file
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