Category: AIDS
Fantastic World AIDS Day Fundraiser for GHT!
posted: 19/10/2011
We’re delighted to announce that the wonderful people at TheGayVillageOnline.com have nominated George House Trust as their charity for this year’s World AIDS Day fundraiser. it's a Tooty Booty competition, with the grand final being held on the 2nd December at Cruz 101.
In conjunction with Poptastic and Hot Village Magazine, the competition aims to discover the best behind in the village!
Village bars and clubs will all nominate a member of staff from their teams to take part and you get to vote for the winner by text. All cash raised from voting and £1 of each entry purchased for the grand final will go to supporting our vital work here at George House Trust.
For more information visit the Tooty Booty webpage They also have Facebook page, so please show them your support!
Icon Bar are organising a very special Deal or No Deal style night at their bar on Friday 2nd December, where George House Trust have been invited to attempt to ‘beat the banker’ to raise money for our charity.
The evening starts from 8.30 p.m. and GHT would love to see as many of our supporters there as possible, to cheer us on! For details of the venue, visit their website
Poptastic have organised their Annual Big Red Ball on Tuesday 29th November 2011, which will be raising money for George House Trust for World AIDS Day.
Entry to the event at Club Alterego is only £3 before midnight. For more information, you can visit Poptastic’s website
The Tooty Booty, Deal or No Deal and the Big Red Ball event are one of many activities being promoted as part of TheGayVillageOnline.com’s Raising4Red campaign, which encourages local businesses to support HIV related charities in Greater Manchester, over the World AIDS Day period. They have set a target of raising £10,000 and George House Trust is one of the charities that will benefit.
If you’d like to get involved or want to find out more, you can visit their website
or join their Facebook page
George House Trust’s is extremely grateful for this amazing support.
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World AIDS Day, 2011
posted: 23/09/2011
World AIDS Day is marked on the 1st December all over the World – raising awareness and raising money for people living with HIV and AIDS. The noise that we make about HIV and AIDS on this international day is vitally important, as it challenges stigma and discrimination too.
How can you get involved?
Hold a fundraiser
You may choose to fundraise at your workplace or with a local community group.
As a basic fundraising package, this year George House Trust can provide you with Red Ribbons, Collecting tins and HIV awareness leaflets and postcards
If you are interested in fundraising, then contact us with a rough idea of how many people you want to fundraise with.
Sell our red ribbons in your shop or café
If you would be interested in selling red ribbons in aid of GHT, we can provide you with a counter display box and collecting tin. Contact us to arrange.
Volunteer!
Every year - we’re out on the streets selling red ribbons in Manchester city centre with our team of volunteers. If you are interested in joining us on the streets of Manchester, then get in touch.
Attend the Candlelit Vigil
Also in December we organise a candlelit vigil in Sackville Park / Gardens in Central Manchester which is an opportunity to remember those people we have lost to HIV. Any proceeds from the Vigil go to organisations supporting local people living with HIV.
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New HIV Treatments Directory
posted: 11/05/2011
The latest version of NAM’s excellent HIV Treatments Directory is now available – either free online or as a paid for book, at just under £65.
This tells you all you (and the HIV clinic) ever need to know about HIV treatment.
Simpler Treatments Information
For many people with HIV this is far more than you need and there are simpler leaflets for day to day use.
If what you want is easy answers we suggest you find what you need in
And for a bit more detail try the
And for even more information try the
Treatments Directory
The Treatments Directory itself has almost 600 pages of detailed information on
- Introduction to HIV and AIDS
- The immune system and HIV
- Monitoring the immune system
- Genetics and HIV treatment
- Ways of attacking HIV
- Starting HIV treatment
- Changing HIV treatment
- Drug resistance
- Side-effects
- Adherence
- Drug interactions and pharmacokinetics
- Women's health issues
- Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
- HIV treatment in children
- Treatment guidelines
- A to Z of antiretroviral drugs
- A to Z of investigational drugs – new drugs in the pipeline
- A to Z of other drugs
- A to Z of illnesses
- A to Z of symptoms
- A to Z of tests
Treatments Directory 2011
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HIV and Africans in the UK
posted: 11/05/2011
HIV & UK African Communities is a brand new guide to the key issues affecting black African communities in the UK. It contains personal stories and a directory of services as well as sections dealing with the key issues.
Produced by NAM it is available free online or as a book for just under £25.
It covers the key topics
- facts and figures about black Africans living in the UK
- about HIV among Africans here
- the needs of Africans living with HIV
- mental health
- faith
- stigma and discrimination
- telling others
- HIV prevention, testing, diagnosis and treatment
- women
- men
- men who have sex with men
- children and families
- young people
- carers
- older adults
- gender-based violence
- rights to healthcare
- immigration and asylum
- prosecutions.
HIV & UK African Communities: the key issues
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Comforted Creatures Video
posted: 14/04/2011
We produced this animation (with apologies to Ardman Animation’s Creature Comforts) as a serious but amusing presentation on some of our work, for the Elton John AIDS Foundation. You can view it on the new videos page of the HIV magazine Baseline.
We interviewed people with HIV who have benefited from our positive prevention work and residential weekends, funded by the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
Excellent Presentation
After presenting all our Positive Prevention work which they have funded, to the Foundation's panel, they told us:
"George House Trust were the first to present and I have to say set a standard that was not replicated. If there was ever a lesson on how to do an interesting presentation, that was it.
Lynda and Colin spoke with passion about the work, the achievements so far and the publication of initial outcomes (they had the BHIVA/NHIVNA poster displayed).
An individual talked very openly and honestly about how he had benefited from the programme and to top it all we were treated to an animated film with people’s real experiences of the support and help they had received.
A perfect presentation with something for everyone - excellent!"
CHAPS impressed
We also showed this at the recent CHAPS conference held in Manchester for organisations and people involved in HIV prevention work with men who have sex with men. Robbie Currie, a leading NHS HIV prevention commissioner in London was very impressed, asking number of questions and commenting how useful a resource it was, and his interested in having something similar.
View Comforted Creatures here http://www.baseline-hiv.co.uk/latest-videos
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