Author Archives: Peter at pozhet

Do you live in the Hunter region?

  Karumah Workshop “Can my brain be affected by HIV?”  An update on planning, managing and living with HIV in the brain. This is the first in a series of 3 workshops being run by Karumah and facilitated by Positive Life NSW. Please come along  

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Drop-In Wednesday 5 July

The next Pozhet Drop-in is on next Wednesday 5th July, from 2-4pm at Redfern Health Centre (Old Courthouse building) If you’re in town come along and meet people, have a cuppa and chat, use the internet, we have free wifi, and bring a partner or friend. It’s […]

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NSW HIV strategy 2016-2020

There are two of the objectives in the current NSW HIV strategy : Increase the proportion of people with diagnosed HIV on ART to 95% Ensure 90% of people newly diagnosed with HIV are on ART within 6 weeks of diagnosis in 2016 and to further […]

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Dried Blood Spot (DBS) HIV Test Toolkit

NSW Health has launched a social media toolkit on HIV home testing for use by community, health and other key organisations.
The toolkit provides materials and guidelines on how you can support and promote the new home HIV test in your social media campaigns.The HIV home testing kit, Dried Blood Spot (DBS) HIV Test is an exciting new development that makes testing easy, reliable and confidential by allowing individuals to order a free self-sampling kit online, take their own sample in the privacy of their home and send it to a laboratory for testing and results management. (more…)

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[+Connect] Out West

PositiveLife NSW invite you to the next [+Connect] Out West event. This will be a safe, welcoming luncheon for people living with HIV, their partners, family and friends out west at Liverpool at a restaurant. It will be on Sunday 25 June from 12noon – […]

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