Category Archives: News and Info

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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Pozhet Autumn Retreat 2017

Berry Sport and Recreation Centre Friday evening 27th February until Sunday 1st March Fun & challenging group activitiesPozhet holds two Retreats each year, one a few hours north and one a few hours south of Sydney – to try and cater for people who live in regional areas. This Retreat was held in a Sport and Recreation Centre South of Sydney at the end of April, and the weather was fine.

We had 18 people, a group of men and women, partners and one lovely child, who came from all over NSW. On Friday evening Leo and Maxine welcomed the group and after a nice dinner, we settled in with introductions and some fun games to get us all acquainted. There were a few people who were recently diagnosed, and quite a few who have lived with HIV for years. Everyone seemed to be doing well. It’s a good thing to have a mix of people and personalities as people learn from each other. (more…)

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Free lunchtime staff seminar

Working with Muslim clients and Muslim Communities Guest speaker:  Shaykh Wesam Charkawi, Muslim Youth Leader Learn about: • Islam and health • Muslims in the media • Women and gender roles All staff welcome Lunch provided Wednesday 17 May 11.30am – 1pm  Auditorium, Kerry Packer […]

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Pozhet Drop-In

The next Pozhet Drop-In will be held on Wednesday 3rd May from 2-4pm, at Redfern Health Centre, 103 Redfern Street, Redfern For more information or to RSVP, call our Freecall number 1800 812 404 or email Pozhet on pozhet@pozhet.org.au, or just drop in. Free tea […]

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Viral Load and Transmission

An undetectable viral load shows that HIV treatment is working well and that there is very little HIV in body fluids. In this situation, the risk of HIV being passed on is extremely low. If you want to stop using condoms, it is important that […]

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