Our 25th Anniversary Conference

posted: 01/10/2009

As part of our 25th anniversary celebrations, George House Trust will be holding a one day National HIV Social Care conference Still Living With HIV: Building Together for Tomorrow. 

It will be on Tuesday 20th April 2010 and put on in association with the BHIVA / BASHH Conference that is being held here on the following few days - 21 – 23 April.

The conference will be held at Manchester Central Conference Centre in the heart of Manchester.

What's On?

The conference will focus on planning for the future and the changing needs of people living with HIV. It will consider the impact of the recession, the general election, the ageing population; the ongoing effect of HIV related stigma, and positive prevention strategies.

Who's talking?

Speakers include Titise Kode, Chief Executive Officer of the African HIV Policy Network; Baroness Gould, Chair of the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health; Ford Hickson of Sigma Research; Dr Ed Wilkins, Clinicial Director of Infectious Diseases at North Manchester General Hospital; and Michael Carter, Patient Information Editor at NAM.
 

The formal publicity will be available at the end of this month, October and we will be sending out the programme and booking form mid-November. Meanwhile you can put the date in your diary - Tuesday 20 April, with BHIVA/BASHH following on the 21-23rd.