Education Portfolio

This portfolio maintains links with education across Australia involved in positive education and HIV health promotion activities. NAPWA tries to ensure that education programs are informed by current social research directions and refelctive of HIV+ experience and lives. The way in which positive people contribute to prevention efforts and the way in which HIV health promotion can assist in better health outcomes for all people living with HIV/AIDS are a focus for the porfolio activities and discussions.

NAPWA's Education National Portfolio Convenor is Cipri Martinez.

Unprotected sex: who's responsible?

Is it acceptable to say that, in some situations, it is OK to look after your own interests when it comes to sex?

AIDS Awareness Week: Do we still need it?

World AIDS Day may remind us of the illness and death associated with living with HIV, but it serves an important purpose in raising awareness, writes David Menadue.

Education Portfolio Report: April 2006

A report from the NAPWA Education Portfolio Convenor presented to the NAPWA Special General Meeting held on 29-30 April 2006.

National Training Agenda

HIV and Sex Worker educators can now obtain nationally-recognised qualifications via a workplace-based assessment process.

The moment of truth

 Getting an HIV diagnosis inevitably raises deep emotions and sometimes crippling fear, but it can also be a moment of catharsis and empowerment, the beginning of a process of taking charge and deciding what’s most important to you in your life.

Sex strategies

p(standfirst).  BRENT ALLAN explains there are numerous strategies that positive people can employ to reduce risk to their partners — and themselves.

Positive prevention

 ‘It takes two to tango,’ goes the old saying. Well it also takes two to transmit HIV: one positive and one negative. For this reason, both positive and negative people can — and should be — actively involved in HIV prevention.

AFAO and NAPWA launch updated HIV positive gay sex booklet

 The Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO) and National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS (NAPWA) today launched the updated HIV Positive Gay Sex booklet aimed at engaging HIV positive gay men and some HIV negative gay men in Australia on issues related to HIV serostatus, gay sexuality and sexual contact.