The Innovative Vision Organisation (IVO) has been given a Community Diversity Award for its work with Africans in the UK with HIV and Aids. Pictured left to right at the ceremony are Tendai Ndanga (Positive speaker coordinator), Daisy Byaruhanga (IVO director), and Sibongile Khumbala (volunteer).
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Positive Women Set their Agenda
"Setting our Own Agenda" was the title of a two-day conference
for women with HIV held in Manchester on 15-16 October and organised by
the George House Trust (GHT). About 100 women attended, most of them HIV
positive.
GHT's Director Denise McDowell said: "It was an excellent conference.
We took the decision to offer places preferentially to women outside London.
This ensured that they came from all around the country - Ireland, Wales,
Scotland, South-west England, Midlands, London, Birmingham, and Manchester
as well as London.
"I think the main result will be to increase the number of women
in contact with each other in a positive women's network, whether by phone,
letter, or email. We are planning to host a positive women's internet
newsgroup."
Rosie Fraser, ex-chair of Wolverhampton Reach, told Positive Nation: "I
