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Community HIV Specialist Services: community in action

Community HIV Specialist Services: community in action

Community HIV Specialist Services (CHIVSS) provides care for people in Brighton & Hove and West Sussex. People can be referred in by their clinic or self-refer. Primarily we provide clinical care in people’s homes and we also provide sign posting to other services and charity organisations. We regul

Standing strong with More to Me than HIV

Standing strong with More to Me than HIV

More to Me than HIV is a grassroots community art initiative that aims to normalise people living with HIV through portraiture. We have nearly 30 people who have shown their faces publicly and shared the information that they are living with HIV. We have exhibited 24 large-scale portraits at Jubilee

World AIDS Day: HIV Hour – the time is now!

World AIDS Day: HIV Hour – the time is now!

Perhaps one of this city’s best, (or depending on your view, worst), kept secrets, is that we host the only radio programme dedicated to people living with HIV, and it is also for people affected by HIV. Doesn’t that mean everyone? Yes, we think so.

A brilliant outlook – the new Lawson Unit

A brilliant outlook – the new Lawson Unit

Words by Zoe Adler and the Lawson Unit Team In June this year the Lawson Unit finally moved! After years of planning and numerous changes of date, we finally packed our bags, boxes, house plants and artwork and moved into our brand new purpose built clinic. The new clinic is situated on the sixth fl

Birmingham HIV activist joins National AIDS Trust’s World AIDS Day 2023 campaign

Birmingham HIV activist joins National AIDS Trust’s World AIDS Day 2023 campaign

Birmingham-based artist and HIV activist Garry Jones is one of three faces leading National AIDS Trust’s (NAT) Rock the Ribbon campaign for World AIDS Day 2023. Jones was pivotal in conceptualising, campaigning for and fundraising for Birmingham’s HIV & AIDS Memorial alongside several other campaign

Take Action. Lace Up. This year’s World AIDS Day RED RUN to take place Saturday, November 25

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.

Birmingham’s HIV and AIDS ‘Cover Up Quilts’ exhibition opened by activist Jonathan Blake

Birmingham’s HIV and AIDS ‘Cover Up Quilts’ exhibition opened by activist Jonathan Blake

Inspired by the original NAMES memorial quilt which began in San Francisco in 1985, this project saw the creation of over 50 quilt panels designed to educate, destigmatise, and commemorate those lost to AIDS.

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