Posts Tagged ‘Belfast’
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Following on from our meeting with Dr Ade Adeagbo on Monday 2 August 2010, we are asking for help to support our partner organisation AHPN with their Destination Unknown campaign.
What’s the issue?
AHPN believes that there is a clear contradiction between the UK’s policy aim of universal access to HIV treatment for all those who need it by 2010 and the deportation of people living with HIV who are on treatment to countries where treatment is not readily available or affordable. The withdrawal of treatment increases the body’s vulnerability to opportunistic infection and will result in drastically shortened life expectancy.
AHPN believes that there are strong public health arguments for allowing a concession. Those awaiting removal may go underground and fail to keep appointments resulting in an increased risk of opportunistic infection with the need for emergency treatment and an increased risk of onward transmission. The Department of Health has valued the prevention of one single onward transmission as between £0.5 and £1 million in terms of individual health benefits and treatment costs. (more…)
Tags: African, AHPN, Belfast, Campaign, Deportation, Destination Unknown, Dr Ade Adeagbo, HIV, HIV Support Centre, The HIV Support Centre, universal access
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Dr Ade Adeagbo, Director of the African HIV Policy Network is visiting Belfast to meet with Africans living with HIV in Northern Ireland.
Monday, 2 August 2010, from 6.30pm
at The HIV Support Centre.
For more information,
please contact Rory on 028 9024 9268
or rory@thehivsupportcentre.org.uk
Tags: African, Africans, AHPN, Belfast, Dr Ade Adeagbo, HIV, Northern Ireland, The HIV Support Centre
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
The drop in on Monday evenings has finished for the summer.
Drop in will resume on a new evening beginning on Thursday 5 August 2010, running from 5.30 to 9.30 p.m.
Thursday evening is late night shopping in Belfast city centre - so if you’re in town - feel free to drop in.
Tags: august, Belfast, drop in, summer, thursday
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
The HIV Support Centre congratulates Mrs Patricia Knowles, Senior Social Worker in HIV Services at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast for being appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire by HM The Queen in Her Majesty’s Birthday Honours List published on 13 June.
We know how hard Pat has worked for everyone living with HIV in Northern Ireland. This honour goes some way to show how much we all appreciate her work.
Tags: Belfast, Birthday Honours, HIV Services, HM The Queen, MBE, Pat Knowles, Royal Victoria Hospital, The HIV Support Centre, The Queen
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
The latest edition of The Centre’s newsletter Centrepiece has been sent out to members and is available for download on the website.
Articles include:
Monday drop in a fantastic success
Build a Bear: ‘we had a fantastic time’
Farewell to old friends
Access for all - it’s the law
UK results of the Living with HIV Stigma Index 2009
Tags: "Living with HIV Stigma Index", Belfast, newsletter, Seacht, The HIV Support Centre, UK Results Living with HIV Stigma Index
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
In the year that has seen two people a week diagnosed with HIV in Northern Ireland, the HIV Support Centre, the leading HIV/AIDS charity in the province, is holding three events in conjunction with Belfast City Council, Armagh City and District Council, and Derry City Council to mark World AIDS Day. (more…)
Tags: AIDS, Armagh, Armagh City & District Council, balloons, Belfast, Belfast City Council, Derry, Derry City Council, HIV, Londonderry, red ribbon, Springboard, Springboard Youth Group, World Aids Day
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Many HIV-positive gay men have post-traumatic stress disorder
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