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A Night To Remember – 40th International AIDS Candlelight Memorial
Posted on 30th of May 2025
The 40th International AIDS Candlelight Memorial was celebrated on Sunday, 18 May at the Positive Living Centre More than 140 folk (including our livestream audience) came together from across the positive community, alongside family, friends, allies, clinical and social researchers…
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HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day – 5 June 2025 – Melbourne dinner
Posted on 30th of May 2025
Venue: Positive Living Centre – 51 Commercial Road, South Yarra Date: Thursday, 5 June 6pm to 8:30pm Hosted by Thorne Harbour Health and Living Positive Victoria All adults with HIV aged 50 years and over as well as long term…
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HIV Cure Newsletter – May 2025
Posted on 30th of May 2025
Learn about the latest HIV cure science from Melbourne and international researchers in this May issue of the HIV Cure Newsletter, which is published by the Melbourne HIV Cure Consortium. Melbourne is a global hub of HIV science research with…
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Bolder Online – How The New Aged Care Act Will Affect You
Posted on 30th of May 2025
Date & Time: Wednesday, 11 June 2025 at 4pm AEST Bolder Online meeting in June focuses on new changes to the Aged Care Act and how this will affect older people with HIV Bolder Online – join older people with…
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International HIV survey Positive Perspectives 3 released
Posted on 28th of May 2025
International survey finds half of people with HIV globally feel unheard by their doctor and many did not believe in U=U. The Positive Perspectives 3 (PP3), study , now in its 10th year is run by ViiV Healthcare. • 40%…
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HIV Futures 11 survey for 2025 – COMPLETE TODAY
Posted on 16th of May 2025
Women needed to ensure our voices are heard HIV Futures looks at the lives of people living with HIV in Australia and is vital to ensuring our health and wellbeing needs are met now and into the future. The survey is…
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Coffee & Cake Catch Up – 3rd Wednesday every month
Posted on 16th of May 2025
Coffee & Cake – Wednesday, 18th June – 2:30pm Venue: Positive Living Centre, 51 Commercial Road, South Yarra, Vic 3141 Every 3rd Wednesday at 2:30pm why not drop in for a barista coffee and delicious cake for this regular women’s catch up…
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WEBINAR: What Can A Social Worker Do For You? – 10 June 2025 at 2pm AEST
Posted on 16th of May 2025
Date & Time: Tuesday, 10 June at 2:00pm AEST Venue: Online via Zoom (everyone is welcome to attend) In this conversational-style webinar you will learn how a social worker can support you. Whether you’re facing personal challenges, navigating health systems, or seeking…
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ABC NEWS – Women living with HIV no longer a priority group
Posted on 16th of May 2025
Women living with HIV no longer a priority group, despite higher risks of late diagnosis and lack of specialised support. In this ABC News article and video, HIV advocates and two women living with HIV, Del Batton Northern Territory AIDS…
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HIV Cure Survey – Pause your Pills for HIV cure research?
Posted on 24th of April 2025
COMPLETE THIS SHORT SURVEY Researchers would like to know what you think about HIV cure studies and if you would interrupt your ARV treatment in a clinical trial for HIV cure research. Did you know there are HIV cure studies…
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A giant leap forward: HIV cure and treatment breakthroughs at CROI 2025
Posted on 23rd of April 2025
READ THIS LATEST FEATURE FROM NAPWHAs POSITIVE LIVING digital Groundbreaking discoveries shared at the 2025 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), held in San Francisco this March, have sparked a fresh wave of optimism in the global HIV community….
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International Workshop on Women & HIV 2025
Posted on 13th of November 2024
From Adolescence to Menopause and Beyond – 4th and 5th April Online and in-person at Barcelona, Spain The 15th International Workshop on Women & HIV will take place in a hybrid format from 4-5 April 2025 in Barcelona, Spain. This…
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Ask An Immigration Lawyer Webinar – Watch The Recording
Posted on 13th of November 2024
Your Path to Living in Australia with HIV (recorded on 20/11/2024) With Special Guests: David Carter and Rhys Evans from the Health+Law Partnership Hosted by: Positive Women Victoria Immigration law and policy can be complicated and changes frequently. In this webinar,…
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POSITIVE WOMEN VICTORIA SEEKS BOARD MEMBERS (includes Associate Board Members)
Posted on 23rd of October 2024
Positive Women Victoria seeks skilled and passionate people to join its Board Do you want to share your skills to help support women living with HIV? Do you have ideas that will help Positive Women Victoria grow so we can…
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Missing Voices published in international journal
Posted on 1st of October 2024
Missing voices: building women living with HIV’s meaningful engagement in HIV clinical and cure research has been published in Culture, Health and Sexuality: An International Journal for Research, Intervention and Care. Missing Voices was a research project from 2021 and…
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WE HAVE MOVED (16 October 2024)
Posted on 25th of September 2024
PWV’s new address is Level 4/ 25 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne All the PWV team are very excited to move to new premises at Level 4, 25 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne from 16 October. Just like at Coventry House, we will share…
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PWV Retreat Activities Team – Join Now
Posted on 21st of August 2024
Would you like to help plan the PWV Retreat schedule? The PWV Retreat 2025 is booked for Friday, 28 February to 2 March (please save the date), and we are getting ready to plan an exciting schedule of activities. But we need you and…
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Menopause and Women With HIV presentation by Dr Nneka Nwokolo
Posted on 21st of August 2024
If you did not make it to PWVs event on Menopause and Women with HIV presentation by Dr Nneka Nwokolo on 23/9/24, you can listen to Nneka’s interview on JoyFM Well Well Well. Dr Nneka Nwokolo MBBS, FRCP, Dip GU Medicine…
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Chrissie’s Story: My experience at AIDS2024 as an HIV advocate
Posted on 21st of August 2024
Our Stories: Ending HIV Stigma podcast LISTEN TO EPISODE: Chrissie’s Story Chrissie has been living with HIV for 24 years. Originally from Zimbabwe, Chrissie lives in Australia’s Northern Territory with her family where she works as a social worker. But…
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Community Champions program returns for 2024
Posted on 20th of August 2024
The National Association of People with HIV Australia (NAPWHA) and Gilead Sciences Australia are pleased to team up for the fourth consecutive year for the Community Champion awards celebrating the unsung heroes in our communities who tirelessly support people…
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