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Category: Blog

30 years living with HIV

Posted on October 31, 2020 by Sophia Forum

Blog by Julie Reynolds In January 2021 I will have been diagnosed with HIV for 30 years. In February I will be 55.  Back in 1991 an HIV diagnosis was almost […]

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Making women’s voices heard: Marie’s experience of accessing and being on PrEP

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Sophia Forum

Sophia Forum co-chair Sophie Strachan blogs for the BASHH newsletter Women at higher risk of acquiring HIV can benefit from PrEP, but take-up of PrEP among women in the UK […]

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Being seen, being heard: ensuring women living with and affected by HIV are Invisible No Longer

Posted on May 25, 2018 by Sophia Forum

Sophia Forum trustee Jacqui Stevenson blogs on the #InvisibleNoLonger campaign When most people think about HIV in the UK, they don’t think about women. Yet in the UK, a third […]

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The Catwalk for Power, Resistance and Hope. Strutting for women with HIV

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Sophia Forum

Susan Cole, Sophia Forum Trustee writes on International Women’s Day about women and HIV This International Women’s Day I planned to write a blog about women with HIV dripping with […]

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PrEP in Europe Summit – making women’s voices heard

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Sophia Forum

Sophia Forum trustee Jacqui Stevenson blogs on PrEP in Europe Summit Sophia Forum participated in the recent PrEP in Europe Summit, held in Amsterdam in February, along with almost 120 […]

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Transgender Day of Remembrance, 20th November 2017

Posted on November 20, 2017 by Sophia Forum

Kathleen Charters, Sophia Forum Trustee blogs to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance, 20th November 2017 “Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want […]

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Invisible no longer: HIV affects women too

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Sophia Forum

Sophia Forum trustee Jacqui Stevenson blogs on our joint project with Terrence Higgins Trust HIV was in the news last month, as Public Health England published new data showing a […]

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Black History Month: Fight the Power

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Sophia Forum

Susan Cole, Sophia Forum Trustee writes about health inequality faced by black women in the UK. As a Black British woman and mother of four, every month is Black History […]

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