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Tag: diagnosis

What it means to be a HIV positive woman

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Sophia Forum

Vicky Being an HIV positive woman has impacted on me positively. Before I was diagnosed, I took so many things for granted. I even thought having HIV was something that […]

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Living with HIV/AIDS around the world

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Sophia Forum

In the past 12 years I have had first-hand experience of positive and negative challenges faced by a person living with HIV/AIDS in four different countries. England: Diagnosis Nothing ever […]

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Dibb, B. & Kamalesh, T. (2012). ‘Exploring positive adjustment in HIV positive African women living in the UK’. AIDS Care: Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV, 24(2), pp. 143-148

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Sophia Forum

Research into living with HIV has mainly focused on quality of life and there has been little focus on the adjustment process for people living with HIV. The numbers of […]

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Nearly, 10 years on, needed now more than ever

Posted on November 1, 2015 by Sophia Forum

Raising the profile of positive women. Sophia Forum is celebrating our 10 year anniversary with our event, Wising Up: Women, Violence and HIV in the UK, in London in the […]

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How bright is the future for people living with HIV in the UK?

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Sophia Forum

We are now in the fourth decade of the HIV epidemic: giant advancements in medical treatment mean that people living with the virus, like myself, can expect to live to […]

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Join us with @ACTUP_LDN and @peterstaley in London for these two events. Not to be missed 😍 sharing some of his memoir 'Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism https://t.co/i80ZVy9Dyz
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@NAT_AIDS_Trust: Join us and @ACTUP_LDN for two special events in #London with @peterstaley presenting his memoir "Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism". Read more about the events here 🔻 https://t.co/rCdEfuvARi https://t.co/TfIvwv3FRQ
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@JosephHeskin: New narrative: Men who have sex with men have always engaged well with sexual health services allowing us to spot patterns of odd symptoms we couldn’t explain and flag this to see if others had seen similar. This led us to discovering a #Monkeypox outbreak. Well done them.
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