Positive Nation Issue 143

Dear readers,

Welcome to the Positive Nation website. There have been a few changes at PN Towers since the last issue - new ownership, but many of the same faces.

The last few months has seen HIV issues much in the news – encouraging results from research work in Thailand, rapid testing centres opening up all over the UK and the ban on HIV-positive people entering the USA set to be lifted.

However, not everything is good news, sadly The Positive Place in Deptford closed leaving many people in South East London without the support they need.

WAD 2009 has also come and gone – with the usual flurry of celebrity interest, Let's hope HIV stays in the news for positive reasons throughout 2010.

Our news? Well we have put together a WAD online issue of PN and we plan to keep the website updated with news. So if there is anything you want to let the HIV-community know about, especially regarding news and events contact me at; danielc@talentmedia.org

Love, as always,
Daniel

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Yorkshire Mesmac are recruiting!
Job Opportunities at MESMAC
Boxing – My Positive Place
Behind Closed Doors: Women, Prison and HIV
HIVSport: Kicking into action
That Seven Digit Number!!!
Book Review - Living Confidently with HIV
Khichdi Serves 4
What is this thing called CAB?
Clayton Brown goes to Ghana

Book Review - Living Confidently with HIV

By Liz Shaw, Erasmo Tacconelli, Robert Watson and Claudia Herbert A Self-Help book for people living with HIV

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That Seven Digit Number!!!

From January to May of this year I had been volunteering within the HIV Unit of The Holy Family hospital, situated in Nkawkaw, Ghana. Before I left this country I asserted that I would do everything in my power to raise at least £50,000 for the hospital and by World AIDS Day. Maybe this promise is overly ambitious but observing the pain, misery and suffering of so many HIV and AIDS patients notwithstanding the under-paid and over-worked hospital staff, I felt that I had to leave these individuals, with hope.

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HIVSport: Kicking into action

HIV Sport was incorporated as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee on 20 September 2007. We are a successor to elements of the Ensuring Positive Futures programme of work which finished in July 2007. In particular we took up the work started by the EPF programme in working with the sports trade unions.

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Behind Closed Doors: Women, Prison and HIV

A young woman is sitting in front of me in the health adviser’s office in a UK prison. The office would look like any consultation room at your GP’s, if it wasn’t for the bars on the windows, and the recurrent sound of keys, and doors being locked in the background. I will call this woman ‘Y’. I have to be very careful about what I disclose about her, even in the pages of this magazine. If accidently other inmates or prison officers knew her identity and HIV status, she could risk bullying, insults, ignorant remarks, refusal of sharing everyday objects such as cutlery and cups, and isolation. Inside prison, HIV is a secret that needs to be kept at any cost.

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Boxing – My Positive Place

MUNY MUDARIKIRI looks at the sport of Boxing and the role it plays in his life and those of others with HIV.

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Job Opportunities at MESMAC

Yorkshire Mesmac are recruiting! Community Development Worker - Scarborough User Participation and Skill Development Worker - Bradford Finance / Admin Assistant - Bradford Click here for more details.

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UK Women with HIV need more conception and contraception advice

Women living with HIV in the UK would welcome greater provision of integrated sexual and reproductive healthcare services by their HIV clinics, according to three separate studies presented at the British HIV Association conference in Liverpool in April. There is a particular need for advice on conception and contraception that reflects the specific issues for women living with HIV.

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Better understanding cancer risks in HIV-positive people

We’ve known for some time that HIV-positive individuals have a higher risk of dying from certain cancers than HIV-negative people. The most commonly seen cancers in people with HIV are often linked to an infectious cause. These include Kaposi’s sarcoma (caused by a herpes virus, HHV-8), non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (caused by Epstein-Barr virus) and anal or cervical cancer (caused by certain strains of human papilloma virus, HPV). Lung cancer is also seen more often in people with HIV than in the general population, although this may be due to the fact that HIV-positive people are much more likely to smoke than their HIV-negative counterparts.

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Clayton Brown goes to Ghana

Clayton Brown experiences firsthand how generations of Ghanaian children are forced to grow up too soon – but without ever receiving a proper sex education.

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What is this thing called CAB?

Why we need independent treatment activists in the UK and how you can get involved. Simon Collins, HIV i-Base and UK-CAB explains all.

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