Free HIV Conference Places

posted: 12/01/2011

There are some free places reserved for people living with HIV, at 'Positively Together' a conference in Sheffield in late February. If you want to attend please ask for a free place as soon as possible, because they will give the free places to whoever asks first.

Positively Together is a conference 'Promoting the Health and Well-being of People Living With HIV' on Wednesday 23rd February 2011, in Sheffield (about an hour from Manchester by train or coach).

The aim of this one day conference is to bring together people living with and affected by HIV, as well as services responsible for planning and delivering HIV treatment, care and support in order to raise awareness about how to promote the health and well-being of people
living with HIV.

Apply for a free place

Free places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

To apply, please email Liz Wilson, Training Manager by January 26th 2011.

Please feel free to pass this information onto anyone you feel may benefit from attending.
 

More about the conference

It will be chaired by Baroness Joyce Gould, and keynote speakers include Sir Nick Partridge (Terrence Higgins Trust), Dame Denise Platts (Chair of National AIDS Trust), and Silvia Petretti (Positively UK).

There will be a range of workshops to choose from including

• HIV stigma and discrimination,
• the role of the voluntary sector,
• clinical care pathways, 
• service user involvement.

People from George House Trust will be among those presenting at a workshop.

The conference is aimed at a wide audience, including:
 

• People living with and affected by HIV
• GPs and primary care staff
• GP Consortia
• HIV Support Organisations
• Sexual Health Clinics
• GUM staff
• Health Promotion Teams
• Commissioners
• Other relevant clinicians

Positively Together conference

 

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