Stigma

Positive Living Centres: do we still need them?

Mostly established at a time when positive people faced isolation and stigma and urgently needed social support, the role of Positive Living is now being questioned. David Menadue investigates.

Positively identified

Is being HIV-positive an innate part of our identities as positive people, or has the concept of “HIV identity” become less significant in the post-HAART era? DAVID MENADUE investigates.

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.

Positive Pacific Forum declaration

For the first time ever the HIV-positive people of the Pacific met, during the Pan-Pacific AIDS Conference in Auckland, to discuss the priority issues that they believe need to be addressed.

Partners in spirit

With more than a hundred thousand people living with HIV, Indonesia faces an uphill struggle to roll out treatment, education and care programs. But an inspirational and dynamic national network of positive people is playing its part.

AIDS 'not a moral issue': Abbott

AIDS Awareness Week “should not be an occasion for moralising” about personal choices, according to the new federal health minister, Tony Abbott.

Positive Aspirations: HIV, representation and stigma

 Representations of positive people in the media. By Sean Slavin.

The (spin) doctor is in

 News reports in December announcing the death of gay celebrity photographer Herb Ritts from ‘pneumonia’ had eyebrows arched and tongues wagging. Even in these enlightened times, GEOFF HONNOR discovers, the spin doctor is in.