Category Archives: News and Info

Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U)

The scientific proof that people with HIV who have an undetectable viral load are not infectious, is gaining ground – more and more organisations and health professionals are embracing this message. The Well Project have endorsed the U=U campaign, saying: “We believe the U=U campaign is an […]

Read More

Living with HIV, Hep B or Hep C?

What does family mean to you as a person living with HIV, hepatitis B or hepatitis C? Or are you a family member of someone with one of these infections? The Centre for Social Research in Health is conducting some research about people with HIV, […]

Read More

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  

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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…)

Read More