#6, October 2009
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Sex and Sero Sorting Creative Workshop
'Sex and Sero Sorting' (Pos-Pos sex) is a new Positive Life Health Promotion Campaign which will include a creative workshop of video making & writing.
What are your experiences?
Come along and tell your story, learn new skills and meet new people. The material developed at this workshop will be used in our new online campaign.
If you are interested please call Kathy on 9361 6011 or email: kathyt@positivelife.org.au
HIV Oral Health Clinics at RPA & Liverpool Hospitals
Sydney South West Areas Health Service has announced HIV Oral Health Clinics at RPA & Liverpool Hospitals commencing Saturday 24 October at RPAH. Patients need to live, work or study in the SSW catchment area and be referred through SSWAHS HIV Services.
There will be five clinic appointments per Saturday at both clinic sites. The Liverpool clinic will be held on the first Saturday of each month, and every Saturday at RPA.
To find out more information please phone 9828 5945.
If only it were easier
In response to the increasing numbers of people who have gone back to work, Positive Life and ACON have been advocating for improved access to S100 dispensing services. This includes access to S100 dispensing out-of-business hours and three months supply of medication, where clinically appropriate.
Ideally, we would like to see an HIV community pharmacy dispensing service. This would, to some degree, resemble the ‘community pharmacy pilot’ that was run some years ago. In this scheme, a small number of community pharmacies dispensed HIV medication supplied by a local hospital pharmacy. These could be located in areas with the greatest HIV population densities such as Darlinghurst, Newtown and North Sydney. Read more
No more butts - Quit smoking for people with HIV
If you are an HIV positive smoker this is one of the most significant ways to improve your health.
Ready to quit? Financial assistance is available. If you have a health-care card and you need financial assistance with quit smoking therapies contact BGF - Ph: 9283 8666 / toll free 1800 651 011 or email: bgf@bgf.org.au (office hours are 9am-5pm, Mon-Fri).
Subsidised NRT may also be available through:
Syney South West Area Health Service:
Smoking Clinic - RPA Hospital - Ph: 9515 8613
Croydon Community Health Centre - Ph: 9378 1306
South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service:
Smokers Clinic - Stop Smoking Program - Prince of Wales - Dept of Respiratory Medicine - Ph: 9382 4641
St George Hospital Alcohol and Other Drug Services - Ph: 9113 2944
Rockdale Community Health Centre (support group) - Ph: 9087 8300
For more information visit: www.nomorebutts.org.au
SSWAHS HIV services consultation
Positive Life NSW is hosting a discussion over a light supper to bring together people with HIV who live, work or study in South West Sydney and would like to share their stories on health service provision with Sydney South West Area Health Service.
WHEN: 6-7pm, Wednesday 18 November at Positive Life NSW, Level 1, Suite 5, 94 Oxford St, Darlinghurst
RSVP Essential - Please phone Renee Lovell on 9395 0444 to book or for more information.
A token of appreciation ($45 voucher) will be provided for your attendance.
Models needed for international photography exhibit
Norwegian photographer Kay Berg will be in Sydney 25 October – 2 November as part of a government funded project documenting the lives of people living with HIV on five continents. Based on the theme ‘HIV/AIDS is not an African disease’, the project aims to show that HIV affects people in all communities.
Kay would like to photograph 15–20 people in Sydney who are living with HIV and willing to share their story. These photographs and life stories will be reproduced in a catalogue and will be included in an exhibition in South Africa during the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
If you would like to be part of this project, please contact Kay at contact@kayberg.com
You can see samples of Kay’s work at www.kayberg.com