Hi from the new Pozhet Coordinator
I thought I’d drop a quick “Hi” from crew at Pozhet and introduce myself as the new Coordinator of the service.
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Have a say about the new Pozhet website
This website is new and we will be formally launching it in the near future. If you have any feedback or would like to ask questions or share your stories or thoughts please leave a comment. You can send your story to pozhet@pozhet.org.au.
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African Connections
Pozhet and the Lemongrove Unit organised another African Connections Day in early September. It was a great success with men and women joining together to support each other. We were lucky that the doctor who came to the first African Connections day came along again. This time we didn’t divide into men and women’s groups but all stayed together in one big mixed group. People asked all sorts of questions and Doctor Rick shared lots of information with us. It was a very supportive group and people stayed after lunch chatting in small groups. (more…)
Inconsistent guidelines around treatment initiation
A group of international writers in AIDSJournal, including David Cooper from UNSW conclude that we do not yet have sufficiently strong evidence to recommend that antiretroviral treatment (ART) should be offered to all people with HIV, regardless of their CD4 count. A summary of the article in AIDSmap […]