Community News Positive East seeks selfies from people living with HIV for U=U Community Quilt Project Positive East, which is dedicated to improving the lives of people living with HIV in East London, is to create three quilt panels, comprised of thousands of selfies from the international community to help celebrate the powerful message of U=U (Undetectable = Untransmittable). The individual selfie By Graham Robson • 1 min read
HIV Activists launch crowdfunder to publish powerful calendar, which tells the incredible history of HIV and AIDS in the capital AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) activists have launched a crowdfunder to cover printing costs of a powerful new pin-up calendar, which tells the incredible history of HIV and AIDS in the capital for the first time. A groundbreaking public health coalition of over 30 leading public health in By Graham Robson • 1 min read
HIV Take Action. Lace Up. This year’s World AIDS Day RED RUN to take place Saturday, November 23 Since 2009, East London HIV charity Positive East has organised the World AIDS Day RED RUN on the last weekend of November – just before World AIDS Day on December 1. What began with a small gathering of 50 people is now one of the UK’s biggest annual HIV community events, raising over £1.1 million By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Community News HIV The Naked Truth to launch 2025 calendar and fundraise for Positive East on November 29 HIV The Naked Truth is a group of likeminded people with a mission to end HIV stigma through the arts, celebrating World AIDS Day on December 1. On November 29, the group will launch its 2025 calendar and raise funds for Positive East with Irish drag queen Drew Diva hosting live performances from Ha By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Community News UK’s AIDS Memorial Quilt digitised by Google Arts & Culture to mark World AIDS Day and ensure those lost to the AIDS epidemic are never forgotten The UK AIDS Memorial Quilt celebrates the lives of those tragically lost to the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and ’90s. To mark World AIDS Day (1 December), the quilt is available online for the very first time as it launches on Google Arts & Culture to ensure those who died are never forgotten. The [… By Graham Robson • 6 min read
HIV Are you recently diagnosed or having difficulty coming to terms with an HIV diagnosis? Terrence Higgins Trust and partners to run series of workshops to help you deal with your diagnosis and live well Sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust is working in partnership with Positively UK, METRO and Positive East to provide in-person and online workshops to help you deal with your diagnosis and gain the knowledge and tools to live well with HIV. Each workshop is run by a different organisation a By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Fundraising News Take Action. Lace Up. This year’s World AIDS Day RED RUN to take place Saturday, November 25 The World AIDS Day RED RUN is a celebration, an acknowledgement of work still to be done and an opportunity to remember those whose fight against HIV ended too soon. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
HIV Playwell Productions and Positive East to curate powerful exhibition on diverse HIV experiences to accompany Live to Tell: (A Proposal For) the Madonna Jukebox Musical by Brian Mullin Live To Tell: (A Proposal For) The Madonna Jukebox Musical is a “highly personal, impassioned stance on living with HIV” (Everything Theatre) that follows the quest of Brian, a Madonna superfan living with HIV, as he pitches himself to Madonna to create a musical based on her songs, whilst also faci By Graham Robson • 4 min read
Fundraising News Take Action. Lace Up: World AIDS Day RED RUN to take place on Saturday, November 26 Taking place on Saturday, November 26 the World AIDS Day Red Run is a 10K/5K charity fun run and 5K walk through leafy Victoria Park, East London to support essential HIV charities across the UK! By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Community News Take Action; Lace Up: World AIDS Day RED RUN to return on November 26 The World AIDS Day RED RUN, a 10k/5k charity fun run and 5K walk, is to return to London’s Victoria Park on Saturday, November 26. Organised to unite the HIV sector, the RED RUN creates a platform for HIV organisations across the country to raise awareness and vital funds for their work. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Health New HIV prevention contract for London announced The GMI Partnership, led by METRO Charity with Positive East and West London Gay Men’s Project working with NHS Freedoms Shop, has been awarded just under £1 million over two years to continue to provide outreach and condom distribution across London to gay and bisexual men and other men who have se By Besi • 2 min read
