Podcasts about living positive victoria

Nina was elected to the Legislative Assembly in November 2022, and is the Parliamentary Secretary for Education. She previously served as a member of the Legislative Council from 2018-22, where she... LEARN MORE The post Saturday 17th, May, 2025: Richard Keane – CEO, Living Positive Victoria & Nina Taylor-ALP, State Member, Albert Park appeared first on Saturday Magazine.

  Carlos and Emil from Living Positive Victoria share with us about HIV migration, with many recent HIV notifications occuring amongst newly arrived migrants in Australia. We talk about access barriers to testing, treatment, and navigating services once in Australia - potentially without access to Medicare. We talk about HIV disclosure with our partners, and in legal settings.   Follow Michael linktr.ee/muchmoreamusing  Follow Tim instagram.com/beatzradio/ This episode was recorded on the lands of the Yalukut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung peoples. We pay our respects to their elders, past, present and emerging, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded. Find other JOY podcasts at joy.org.au

Tim Krulic from Living Positive Victoria discusses why they urge the Albanese Government to implement all the recommendations from the Migration Health Requirement review.  Living Positive Victoria (lpv.org.au)

Living Positive Victoria's AIDS Candlelight Memorial aims to raise HIV awareness and provides space to remember friends and family lost to AIDS, along with people today living with HIV. Positive Speakers Bureau Coordinator David O'Keeffe from Living Positive Victoria joins us to discuss. Jack and Cal also talk about Thorne Harbour Health's exit from Twitter/X in light of IDAHOBIT. Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there's something you'd like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

Living Positive Victoria's AIDS Candlelight Memorial returns this Sunday for another year. The Candlelight Memorial aims to raise HIV awareness and provides space to remember friends and family lost to... LEARN MORE The post Living Positive Victoria's AIDS Candlelight Memorial appeared first on JOY Breakfast.

Living Positive Victoria CEO Richard Keane discusses Mpox and HIV.  Living Positive Victoria (lpv.org.au)  3CR broadcasts from the stolen lands of the Kulin Nation.

HIV impacts people regardless of race, sexuality, or gender. With ¼ of people in Australia with at least one parent born overseas, or from other countries themselves - our communities are diverse. In Victoria, HIV impacts the lives of people from all cultures, and so providing information and services tailored to individual cultural and linguistic needs is vital.  Michael talks to Jen Johnson, Program Manager at Living Positive Victoria about supporting our communities living with HIV who speak a language other than English through various multilingual resources and projects.    Thank you so much to Beau Newham, the project lead on Translating the Facts for bringing these resources to life for our community. Resources Translating the Facts available in Arabic, Burmese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese  Planet Positive GOES NORTH for Winter, LPV's social event at the Thornbury Bowls Club for people living with HIV, their families, and friends 2024 International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, May 19 at the Library at the Dock * This episode originally aired Thursday, May 2 2024 on JOY * Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there's something you'd like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH. This episode was recorded on the lands of the Yalukut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung peoples. We pay our respects to their elders, past, present and emerging, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

Richard Keane, CEO of Living Positive Victoria,    and Scott Harlum, Currently serving as  Director and President of the National Association of People with HIV Australia (NAPWHA.org.au) and Director of the... LEARN MORE The post Saturday 6th May 2023, Richard Keane and Scott Harlum, Living with HIV update appeared first on Saturday Magazine.

On Saturday, 26 November 2022 Victoria will vote in a new state government. Here on Well Well Well we are delving into some of the priorities and issues impacting the health and wellbeing of our LGBTIQ+ and People Living with HIV communities before we vote. Well Well Well is joined by Richard Keane, Living Positive Victoria CEO and Dr. Kirsty Machon Executive Officer of Positive Women calling on the new state government to commit to overseeing the virtual elimination of new HIV transmissions and equitable health outcomes for all people living with or at risk of HIV. Read the HIV Priorities Document via: Living Positive Victoria: https://livingpositivevictoria.org.au/prioritising-hiv-aids-ahead-of-the-upcoming-victorian-state-election/ Positive Women: https://positivewomen.org.au/prioritising-hiv-aids-ahead-of-the-upcoming-victorian-state-election-on-26-11-2022/ Thorne Harbour Health: https://thorneharbour.org/news-events/media-releases/prioritising-hiv-aids-ahead-of-the-upcoming-victorian-state-election/ Living Psoitive Victori'a s Victorian Election: HIV & AIDS Community Forum Thursday 17 November 2022, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Positive Living Centre 31-51 Commercial Road South Yarra, VIC 3141 https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/victorian-election-hiv-aids-community-forum-tickets-452436859827?fbclid=IwAR3f2G_EI79RPO5872evK4ULbcfwA3Jh1RXdby6_o7KPfIH6pGxa6wRZ9pg  

Richard Keane, CEO of Living Positive Victoria, joins Macca and Paul live on-air to discuss the release of the Living Positive Victoria, Positive Women Victoria, and Thorne Harbour Health on the... LEARN MORE The post Saturday Magazine 22/October/2022 Richard Keane, CEO Living Positive Australia: HIV & AIDS Priorities document. appeared first on Saturday Magazine.

Richard Keane & Matto Lucas interviews with James McKenzie.  Living Positive Victoria CEO Richard Keane discusses MPXV and its vaccine from a Living with HIV perspective.  Living Positive Victoria  Matto Lucas chats about the Impossible Dance photo exhibition featuring Queer Communities in a pre-COVID World. Currently showing at the Victorian Pride Centre in St Kilda, Melbourne until October.  Visual Arts at the Pride Centre - Victorian Pride Centre  Matto Lucas | Visual Artist | Melbourne, Australia  3CR broadcasts from the stolen lands of the Kulin Nation.  Sovereignty was never ceded.

Vivien Langford spoke to Peg Putt - Former leader of the Tasmanian Greens about the community's capacity for reforestation.//Jacob spoke with Richard Keane, CEO of Living Positive Victoria, about World AIDS Day, recent challenges and successes of people living with AIDS, and ways that governments, communities, and individuals can support people living with AIDS. For more information on Living Positive, visit the website.//Caitlin spoke with Ridhima Sachdeva who runs Hemera Labs, part of The She Club, a collective of migrant-women owned businesses that have just opened in Collingwood.//Evan spoke with Dr Stuart James about the 20th anniversary of the iPod - it's connection with music streaming and what lies ahead for the way we listen to our favourite tunes.//

Queering the Airwith Jacob Ella Tooms from Wednesday Breakfast spoke to Rishaan from Community Action for Rainbow Rights about the Religious Discrimination Bill.Jacob spoke with Richard Keane, CEO of Living Positive Victoria, about World AIDS Day, recent challenges and successes of people living with AIDS, and ways that governments, communities, and individuals can support. For more information on Living Positive, visit the website here. We share an intimate conversation with Hunter Dillon, a queer transmasc person, tattooist, and sex worker with chronic invisible illnesses. Recorded by Queering the Air's Michele Vescio for 3CR's Binary Busting Broadcast on Transgender Day of Visibility 2021. 

Michael is looking back at an earlier conversation on the future of HIV care with some HIV clinical and community leaders. In early April this year, Michael and Tex caught up with Jenny Hoy, Director of HIV Medicine at Alfred Health, to talk about Alfred Health's survey to help people living with HIV untangle what their future health care needs might be - and this week we have the results and feedback from the survey to reflect on with Jenny. Later, Richard Keane, CEO of Living Positive Victoria sheds light on how the results of the survey might shape PLHIV communities' care, and what services might support their health later in life. PLHIV can complete the survey until 31 April when it closes via Alfred Health's website To connect with the coffee table chats contact Living Positive Victoria  We caught up with Jenny and Richard earlier in the year as the survey was unfolding... You can find Part One of that conversation here: https://joy.org.au/wellwellwell/2021/04/the-future-of-hiv-care/

This week Cal is joined by Dean Cassano from the Burnet Institute and Richard Keane, CEO of Living Positive Victoria, to talk about Well Beyond 50 — a new website for people living with HIV aged 50 and over. Featuring an array of health topics, personal stories, and opportunities for social connection, Well Beyond 50 offers a wealth of information to people living with HIV as well as carers and supporters. The website officially launched this week and can be found online at: wellbeyond50.livingpositivevictoria.org.au And anyone keen to be a part of the Well Beyond 50 project by sharing their story can reach out via the website at: wellbeyond50.livingpositivevictoria.org.au/ask-a-question/

Michael and Tex look into the future of HIV care with some HIV clinical and community leaders. A lot has changed in the world of HIV treatment including how and where we deliver care to a community with increasingly diverse experiences and needs. Michael and Tex sit down with Jenny Hoy, Director of HIV Medicine at Alfred Health, to talk about Alfred Health's new survey to help people living with HIV untangle what their future health care needs might be. Later, Richard Keane, CEO of Living Positive Victoria sheds light on how PLHIV communities can shape their future, and what services might support their health later in life. PLHIV can complete the survey until 31 April when it closes via Alfred Health's website To connect with the coffee table chats contact Living Positive Victoria 

In the 1980's, ads with bowling grim reapers was for many of us, our introduction to this scary new virus called HIV and AIDS. Now though, living with the virus is stunningly different, exceedingly positive and we're even on track to wipe out community transmission in the next two years here in Australia. On this World AIDS day, we find out what HIV really looks like in 2020. Subscribe to The Quicky at... https://mamamia.com.au/the-quicky/ CREDITS  Host/Producer: Claire Murphy Guest Booker: Mel Sauer Audio Producer: Jacob Round Guests: Sarah Feagan, HIV positive and the Health Promotion Officer at Living Positive Victoria and Fraser Drummond, ANZ Medical Director at ViiV Healthcare CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sarah Feagan has been living with HIV for 12 years. Her story begins in Melbourne. As a troubled teen, Sarah left home and her youth became a rollercoaster of homelessness, and drugs, which evolved into a bohemian life of self-discovery. After falling in love with a partner who didn't know their status, later Sarah was diagnosed with HIV at 21, but while effective treatments were available, this was not enough and stigma nearly killed her. Today, Sarah is an HIV peer navigator and one of Australia's most dynamic leaders in HIV advocacy, especially for women. TRANSCRIPTEPISODE 4: SARAH FEAGAN'S STORYUploaded: 13/10/2020 Heather EllisHi, I'm Heather Ellis your host on our stories, ending HIV stigma, a podcast by women living with HIV, where we share our stories of our diverse lives and challenged the myths and stereotypes that feed HIV stigma are stories as part of the women and HIV tell the story project made possible by Gilead Sciences and produced by Positive Women Victoria in Australia. Sarah Feagan has been living with HIV for 12 years. Her story begins in Melbourne. As a troubled tee, Sarah left home at 14 and her youth became a roller coaster of homelessness, and drugs, which evolved into a bohemian life of self-discovery. After falling in love with a partner who didn't know their status. Later, Sarah was diagnosed with HIV. But while effective treatments were available. This was not enough and stigma nearly killed her. Today. Sarah is a Peer Navigator and one of Australia's most dynamic leaders in HIV efficacy, especially for women. Welcome, Sarah. Sarah FeaganThank you so much. Hello. Thanks for having me. And thanks for a beautiful introduction. Heather EllisYou're such an inspiration. I want to start by asking as a teenager you were living on and off the streets of Melbourne. And this is often a lifestyle that is termed the University of Life. What were some of your learning experiences that made you the person you are today? Sarah FeaganYeah, I think being on the streets, you know, and that comes in different forms as well. Sometimes you sleeping rough sometimes, you're couch-surfing. But you really feel like you're at the whim of other people. And I think though that can be a really good thing and really bad thing because it can teach you about how the kindness of strangers or the gentleness of other people but it can also teach you the realities of, I guess, how cruel and how bad people can be as well and I was really lucky that during my time, when I was homeless that I had really good people that did help me and I have to say that there would have been more positive experiences, than negative ones. Heather EllisYou were telling me your parents stood by you during those years? S what would be your advice to other parents who might have teenagers going through a similar situation? Sarah FeaganMy parents, a shout out to those beautiful humans, I put them through and back and, you know, at 14, you don't know, I thought I knew everything. And I thought that I could understand certain things in my life that had happened or certain moments that had made me act out in different ways. And I was so confused and so angry and I was going through puberty and it's just a toxic mix? But I couldn't verbalize. I couldn't say what was happening for me. So it came out in really poor behaviors. And, yeah, my parents went through that and they had to watch sort of me self-destruct, when they were willing and able to support me. So we are, we are really close now. Like we speak every day, and we're really good friends. But I think to other parents, I'm not a parent myself, so I can't, I can't sort of speak to that. But definitely their unconditional love. The door was always open, even when they wanted to lock it and change the keys change and change the locks, they still kept that door open. And I think that I had to go on my journey of self-discovery and my journey of self-awakening and understanding a lot of things about my past and maybe why I was reacting the way I was, and they allowed me to do that. Maybe it was from afar, but the very supportive, frustrated kind of moment, but they were always there and at the end of the day, that's the reason why I'm still alive. Your child is always your baby at the end of the day. That little animal that's driving you nuts is your baby. And that yeah, that love is always felt as a child, I have always felt that love. So I'm really lucky Heather EllisWhen you suddenly found yourself in this sort of Bohemian lifestyle living in a house full of artists and musicians, how was that a turning point for you? Sarah FeaganSo I was actually sleeping rough at a train station and somebody I think he knew my sister and he recognized me and he introduced me to this home and it was such an amazing experience. Like they didn't know me, I rocked up at their door with like, my big bag of stuff, and they let me come in and they taught me music and so many things that really shaped the way that I engaged with the world for the rest of my teenage years. You know, I was always going to festivals or parties and being around really interesting people. So it was a really special time but I guess with that as well and with any creative culture or subculture this subculture. Because of that I definitely fell into a bit more of a drug taking side of things like drugs were there, but drugs definitely consumed me and I consumed them? And yeah, that's sort of where I ended up focusing and needing to get out of Melbourne just because my drug use had gone through the roof. Heather EllisYou're telling me that you moved to northern New South Wales. That would have been like paradise after Melbourne, warm sunshine and the like. And it was here that you fell in love. So where did that take you? Sarah FeaganYeah, so it was like I said, my drug use was out of control. And I was about 19 by this stage, and we ended up north living with a really good friend of mine. And she was really supportive and part of my healing and then I've headed into town and I met this like super hot guy, and yeah, I fell in love. But unfortunately, there was a lot that he didn't know about himself. Yeah, I mean, ultimately that that took me down. The road that I'm on now so Heather EllisWhen people are infected with HIV, they go through what they call seroconversion. So this is when the virus is basically, creating antibodies and attaching itself to cells. You still had no idea but you fell ill and then you went to the doctor and it was similar from what you're telling me, a similar story where first off the doctors really don't suspect HIV. Was that the way it was for you? Sarah FeaganYeah, so I guess yeah, that's what I was alluding to is definitely like this guy was unaware of his HIV status. His sera conversion illness was minimal, just flu-likes symptom that he could identify after and diagnosis, probably five, six years ago and he was fine. He was pretty healthy, and just showed no signs or symptoms to me though. After meeting him, we were having unprotected that I got sick, I was covered in a rash. I was losing weight, I couldn't eat. I just was very, very sick. And then I went to the hospital like I am typical Anglo Australian, you know, blonde curly hair, blue eyes, and they were testing me for tropical diseases that weren't even in the country because HIV was not on their radar. And that unconscious bias that women and men and trans people are subjected to by clinicians and doctors, they look at you and they think, Well, no, that's not their behavior, they might not be at risk. And it's about instead of it being about what you perceive as a clinician or doctor. It's about, well hang on, these are the symptoms that this person is presenting. Because I mean, HIV, it's not a kind of behavior. You can have one time. You can have experiment with drugs one time, and that's all it takes. And so yeah, finally, I can't remember because I was so unwell. And I'm pretty sure there was a nurse who came in and just sort of went: She needs a HIV test. And sure enough, he was right. Sarah FeaganThis was around the year 2000, so there wasn't really that much talk about HIV. So it probably wasn't really on the radar. I was very lucky that the nurse came in and thought, Well, how about we have HIV tests? Because you would know of this yourself that there's people who have a late stage diagnosis purely for the fact that they're not tested for HIV until like the last minute.So that unconscious bias, and I think, we're not looking for it. I think though they come in 2008. HIV has been around already for 40 years. But this speaks to rural and regional areas where there isn't that education, understanding or even just being exposed to it. But you know, through my work as well, and through my own lived experience, we hear and say about people being mis-diagnosed late with really, really detrimental effects on the people. And, you know, it's not good enough that especially even today in 2020, we're still saying it, it's about educating ourselves and being really health literate. Health aware about our bodies and maybe the risks or not risks that we're taking. But just knowing that HIV does exist, and it is out there, and it doesn't really care what you look like, or how often you have , or how bad you are in the eyes of society, it's a virus and it will do what it wants. Heather EllisSo when you fell ill did you even think about HIV at that time. Did it cross your mind? Sarah FeaganNo, not at all. Not at all. And this is a weird, I guess, part of my story is that my mom nursed HIV AIDS patients before they had a name for it in the late 70s, early 80s. And so it was just it's not that it was spoken about, but it was definitely like it wasn't on my radar. It wasn't on my radar. Even with my mom's experience, it wasn't there. Just I was young. I didn't care I've been having this pretty brilliant, easy lifestyle and I trusted this man, I was in love with him. Heather EllisThat relationship fell apart at that point and then you move back to Melbourne. Was this to get support from your family as you when you received your diagnosis of HIV and not knowing anything about it, and in fact, probably thinking this is a death sentence not being aware of the treatments that were available. So what happened then when you return to Melbourne? Sarah FeaganYeah, it was certainly wasn't for family support. I was coming back with my tail between my legs. It was Yeah, I need my mom. I need my dad right now. But it was that I've lived this independent life and I thought that I was just kicking goals and then to come back with HIV and go, I really hit rock bottom. And so it was a tail between the legs. I was depressed. I was fearful. All of those feelings even though I was told Oh, it's a great year to get HIV. We have so many medications. It's okay. And it's so not okay. You've just been told you got HIV. I don't care if it's today. 10 years ago, 20. It's still a scary life altering moment that you are so alone, and it doesn't matter if you're in a room full of people. You are so alone and you're the relationship Breaking down. I've just turned 21 there's so many things happening that I thought I knew where my life was headed and all of that got taken away. And so I got back to Melbourne. I told my sister, and then there was a night when my parents were out and I took a drug overdose and my sister actually found me in the bathroom at our home and rang hospital and was taken there pretty quickly. Don't remember that much as I was unconscious. And yeah, I got woken up to this kind of why didn't you tell us: You're my baby, we love you. Because while I was in an induced coma, or they were doing whatever they were doing, the nurses said: Oh, do you think that this drug overdose was related to her recent HIV diagnosis? And my parents were like, what?I knew nothing up until that point. And so that drug overdose was related to really it was related to self stigma. I was fearful. I was lonely depression, and it's that moment of 21 and thinking, you know what, I've done pretty good. I'm pretty feeling really good and I just felt like I'm on this right track and then it was that fear of wow I'm going to be unloved untouchable unwanted this is just going to affect me so much. My life is over and so I just thought why hang around when I can end it now which is a horrible place for anyone to be in. So obviously my family support and friends you know, Mom and Dad but just amazing my family, my sister, my brother, friends that were around me really special as well and I kind of started to get the idea that I would be okay. I engaged with some HIV community organisations started meeting other women especially it was just the best thing to do. Now I thought, you know what, I've been through some stuff in my life. I can get over this. I'm a strong woman, a young person. I got the rest of my life. My family loves me. I got good friends, I can do this. So I kind of re-entered into society. I can't tell you specifically how when and where because it is such a fuzzy time. It was me trying to engage in relationships and as a bisexual woman or woman, and date men and women, and, you know, I experienced violence, I experienced stigma I experienced, you know, so much rejection and hurt. I had people saying that I was trying to infect the whole of the community in Melbourne with AIDS, stuff like that. Heather EllisSo this all came from really an enormous amount of ignorance from people. So this is externalized stigma, they put their fears about HIV onto you. But by educating them and explaining to them about the treatments, did that change their attitude? Sarah FeaganI was on intermittent treatment. So back then they would wait for you to start treatment to your CD for was down to 250. I can't remember I think I'd started and stopped a few times, because it was just that process of being a very sexual person and a person that loves to be around people. Have fun and all that stuff. So those conversations weren't even there about treatment as prevention or U=U undetectable equals untransmittable. So we didn't have those tools it was basically use a condom. And that was it. That was the safety. You know, it was a different dialogue to be had but also being so newly diagnosed, I wasn't educated myself, I was still dealing with my internalized HIV stigma. And then when somebody would front me and say, you're trying to do this to us, you're trying to infect us with HIV, you're this , you're this awful person. It gets to a point where you just like, you know what, I'm angry. So I took their hands off, sort of I described it as taking my hands off the steering wheel and just waiting for the car to crash. I stopped all my HIV medication. I wasn't in a position to be educating people because I was just petrified myself and so I just let HIV do what it did, and just went back to taking lots of drugs again. Heather EllisSo you got into a very low point where you were in hospital and about to die. You had full blown AIDS. You weren't taking treatments. This was sort of the end the things. So what happened for it to then turn around for you. Sarah FeaganI think I was really lucky. You know, being young probably is the one thing that saved me. But yeah, basically I just stopped my medication. I was taking a lot of drugs and yeah, my parents, you know, some really important community members as well going, Sarah, what are you doing? Wake up, wake up and I actually woke up to my HIV specialist sitting at the end of my bed telling me if you're going to do this, let's come to hospital and we're going to put you into palliative care. I don't remember much else apart from getting a psychiatric clearance and my mum collapsing and me saying yeah, I'm good to die. You know, like I'm a 25 or 26 year old young woman with a completely manageable chronic illness. This just speaks to the volume of what HIV stigma can do and how things are cruel to somebody. You don't even realize the impact that it's having. I was no longer Sarah, I was that girl with HIV and she deserved, you know, it was just no one saw me and I was you know, I took a I was given morphine as an emergency and I'd watched some family members go through palliative care. And I kind of knew in that moment that was it. And you know, I couldn't even speak after the morphine hit me and I don't know what happened in that time. But you know, I woke up. Heather EllisSo this is around 2010, but we are eight years away from U=U . And that has been such a game changer in helping to end HIV stigma because it's backed by more than 20 years of scientific evidence. I mean, the treatments that we take today are really I like to describe them as being as good as the cure. Because we can live a long healthy life. Sarah FeaganWe've known about it for so long you think women have been giving birth, positive women HIV positive women giving birth to children, breastfeeding, all this stuff taking treatment. So U=U has been used, I guess it started, like, you know, not by accident, but just because well, women around the world are still going to have children and that was I guess, the beginning of U=U because there was the understanding back then, you know, the different studies with numerous different sexual acts and zero transmissions. It's such a game changer. It's such a liberating moment to think, because I know so many people with HIV, that's one of our greatest fears is to give it to somebody when nobody wants to give this to anybody else. So it really does. Heather EllisWe've talked about internalized stigma, which is self-stigma and externalized stigma, but there's also stigma by association. So what has your experience been of stigma by association? Sarah FeaganDo you mean like for people around us like for partners? me see I was married for five years, but you know, like recently separated really good mate with the guy but you know, he came from a multicultural background and as much as his family loved me, I'm sure if they knew my HIV status they would want me around their son just because they love their their son so much more. And so you know, I did have to go back and I was quite open about my status for many years and then all of a sudden being in this like, you know, serious relationship monogamous marriage, it was no longer my virus, it was about going okay, well, HIV stigma impacts everybody differently and now he will be impacted directly. So you know, I would have to adapt and change and kind of go back into the closet a bit. Even same with my family and some friends you need to be mindful of disclosing too much information in certain forums or be mindful of protecting other people because your HIV status does impact the people around us as well. Heather EllisYeah, it shows how far we still have to go with ending HIV stigma, it really does. So you're now a HIV Peer navigator with Living Positive Victoria and peer navigators are a fairly new role in the HIV sector. So what is this role? And why is it so important? Sarah FeaganPeer navigation, I guess it's a very similar to peer support, basically, but it just means that we have a lot more clinical relationships. So we work in higher clinical caseload clinics in and around Melbourne. And so we have these really great relationships and I kind of feel like my role is appears to be a woman living with HIV. That's cool. My lived experience can also be a way that we can act as peers but I'm also given a lot of training and support through Living Positive Victoria and then also have the opportunity for really great partnerships. So I have this amazing network that I can get people through to different service for clinicians, psychologists, everything that somebody might need in their HIV journey and I absolutely love the job. I'm on the phone all day talking to these beautiful community members that are in different stages their HIV diagnosis some people's thriving some people you know, needing that little bit of extra care at the moment and it's great that I'm in a position to offer that. Heather EllisPrior to peer navigators when people were newly diagnosed, they would speak to a HIV nurse, be given a few pamphlets and basically just sent on their way and they were really left to fend for themselves. But now there is such a strong understanding of how important that peer support is particularly for the newly diagnosed would you agree with that? Sarah FeaganTt is so important. We know the power and importance of peer connection, because no one else can understand that moment of HIV diagnosis, what it feels like. And even peer support is important. Okay, navigation is, as you touched on about people affected by HIV. So partners, kids, friends and family members have to also do support. But you know, we have people that have been positive for 10 years, and then they'll connect into the program and just go: Why did I wait so long? Heather EllisWhy have these people waited for so long people who have been diagnosed with HIV for 10 years and just haven't reached out for that support? Sarah FeaganIt is so complicated. People's lives are complicated. Some people don't need it, they get diagnosed, they take their HIV medication, they're okay. But I mean, it's also internalized stigma, external stigma, domestic violence, or it could be culture, religion. There's so many different factors of why people don't connect to the HIV space. But I know once you see people break through that fear or that feeling like they don't belong, or that they're not part of a group of men or and they see the diversity that we are as a beautiful community within Australia, within our region as well within the world. It is really great to see people lift that black cloud. They just feel like oh, like I'm understood. I say you're part of your community. These are your people. And that's the moment that I wish everybody living with HIV would come and connect into. Yeah, oh, we're a big community as well. We're 38 million people living with HIV and half of us are women. So we're a big community, Heather EllisSo you're also a HIV leader and HIV advocate. You're vice president of the NAPWA (National Association of People with HIV Australia and also have a role with NAPWA's Femme Fatales group, which is the women's advocacy group of NAPWA. And you've become an international HIV advocate as well. What do all these roles mean for you? You've come from this place where you'd given up like you said, taking your hands off the steering wheel and now you are one of the most dynamic HIV advocates for women in Australia, if not the world? Sarah FeaganOh, stop. Heather. But it's exactly that because I was there I was at that moment where I wanted to stop. And I had, like, there's been a few really pivotal people that I've met through the HIV community that kind of gave me the kick up the that I needed like friends and family can do so much when there's another person that has gone through exactly what you've gone through, going on. You're right you know, I live in a lucky country I have access to HIV medication. I was sitting there feeling sorry for myself, and then I realised come on, use this privilege. Use this moment to engage and contribute and give back or whatever little bit I could do. And you know, like, I'm really lucky that I had been previous Chair of Positive Women Victoria, and Living Positive Victoria have taken me on doing health promotion and peer navigation and the board stuff that I do. So that's also with the ICW (International Community of Women living with HIV, Asia Pacific) and also the national, regional, and state based work that I'm doing at the moment, and I love it, you know, half voluntary, half paid, and I'm so lucky that I can have that balance because as positive peers and advocates, we volunteer our life away. And so that's important to make sure that we can support ourselves and thrive but I think it is just knowing how I felt and how low I was. And then I think meeting other amazing people around the world and people in Australia. Everything. It's just the resilience and the strength and the grace that people have in our HIV community. It just inspires me every day to wake up. And I might not be doing the most amazing things in the world. But I'm definitely trying to give back and contribute to these amazing communities. Heather EllisWould you say like you saw the need there, because with 38 million people living with HIV in the world, and nearly half of them women, but there's very, very few women openly living with HIV. And not only are they openly living with HIV, but actually being leaders being advocates to raise awareness of the issues that women face. So I mentioned you would have seen an enormous need there. And then you were put into the positions on the board of Positive Women Victoria, the Chair of Positive Women Victoria, so it's fantastic that now you've stepped up and provided your skills and your experience to do so much good. Sarah FeaganThank you. I think that's very true. Just saying in Australia when I kind of dealt with my stuff and was kind of ready to start engaging, I really didn't see many positive women in Australia, openly living with HIV. Globally, though, I've been so fortunate to meet just dynamite women that are facing persecution and fear and just living in the most extreme situations, but they're still defiantly standing there and saying, I'm open to be a woman with HIV and I ain't gonna take this no more. And they're doing amazing work. And I think that inspires me as well that I saw little people around the world can do so much. And I think that we can learn a lot from our brothers and sisters in less fortunate countries than Australia about how to really do some meaningful work. But, it's great to see now since that time, when I was engaging, I can name over two handfuls of women now that are openly living with HIV or that are engaging and that it really stepped up so it's really nice to see new faces like, young girls do this? Heather EllisYep. very encouraging, especially the younger women, the younger women stepping out, which is fantastic. I mean, another thing that people I don't think realize in the general public is this still around 700,000 people die every year from AIDS, and this is completely preventable if they could get HIV treatments. So in this time of COVID-19, you know, they will eventually find a vaccine and that vaccine will be rolled out to everyone. So if the world wanted to, we could make sure that more people got access to those treatments in these developing countries. How do you think we can do this? Sarah FeaganIt's a big question and a big problem because we are dealing with a lot of corruption, religion, endemic human rights violation, violence against women as well it is, it is not a one size fits all. Some countries are just so corrupt that it doesn't matter how much money medication is thrown at them, it will never go into the hands of the people. You know, I think the biggest thing that we can do is continue to lobby pharma, continue to lobby governments. And also just you know, we've got to also support the people on the ground, you know, currently in Indonesia, which is a country that is very close to Australia. And they've having massive medication stock outs. Heather EllisAnd PNG in Papua New Guinea as well. Sarah FeaganThey're having a new system of how the government's just rolling out one type of HIV medication for the whole country. So if it doesn't work for you, too bad. But in Indonesia, and in PNG, as well, there are incredible activists, advocates, powerful, powerful people living with HIV on the ground that are fighting. And I guess the best thing to do, especially if this is something that you want to contribute to or be a part of, is reach out on Google, and search HIV organizations and contact them and say, Hi, look, I'm from Australia. I want to contribute, what can I do? How can I help you need me to write a letter or whatever it is, There's ways to connect. And it's about, exposing the incredible work that people are doing in their own countries and trying to bolster that as much as we can with the privilege that we have in Australia. I mean, we have internet and electricity and little things like that, that really help. Heather EllisThat's right. Just don't take our foot off the accelerator. Just keep the pressure on. I mean, the advocates that have come before you for in the 1980s and 1990s, it's just continuing it hasn't it stopped, that fight hasn't stopped. And it's not just about ending stigma. It's about getting access to those treatments to those 700,000 people who die every year. Sarah FeaganExactly. It's just you think we are 40 years from the beginning of the HIV pandemic and it is not over yet. Yeah, it is a shame that it's still used as a bargaining tool that HIV medications that are life-saving are still used like this on different communities. Heather EllisI've heard you speak a number of times and there's a some words that you use and every time I hear you say them, I just feel a shiver run through me. You say: “It's no longer about living and surviving with HIV. It's about thriving.” Can you tell me more about what that means for you in your day to day life? Sarah FeaganI'm glad I give you shivers back to you. I love that thank you. It is I think, I have lived with HIV functionally lived with it because I felt like I needed to because I love and support around me. I'm thriving with HIV now. I'm as happy and as unhappy as any other person in the world. I've you know, I live my life highs and lows and HIV doesn't impact at all what I do. HIV stigma is does exist. I can deal with that a lot better now. I'm stronger. I'm confident. I will sit you down and educate you until you get it, like I just live in on what I'm thriving with HIV. My medications work for me. I have a great job. There is no physical reason why I can't live a normal life, and that's because of great HIV treatments, great support, great community, great opportunities. But in developing countries, people with HIV are living day by day, they don't know when they can get their next dose of medication. If it even really works for you or HIV is constantly being used against you. You just live with it, you have to live with it. So this kind of sits in my back pocket there reminds me to take my medication and just live. HIV is really not a barrier to my existence. In some days. It makes me work harder and want to do more and live better. Heather EllisWell, thank you, Sarah, so much for sharing your story today on Our Stories: Ending HIV Stigma. Is there anything else you'd like to leave us with? Sarah FeaganOh, thank you so much for having me on it. And if anybody wants more information about the peer navigation program, or any stuff we were just talking about, happy for you to share my email. Stay well. And thank you so much for the opportunity Heather. Heather EllisIf you've enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe so you can listen in future episodes are posted. Please rate and review this podcast and share it. Our Stories Ending HIV Stigma is part of the Women and HIV Tell The Story project made possible by Gilead Sciences through the Gilead Together Grant program and produced by Positive Women Victoria, a community based support and advocacy organization for women living with HIV in Australia. I'm Heather Ellis. Thanks so much for listening. Isn't it time we ended HIV stigma once and for all. You can contact Sarah Feagan at: sfeagan@livingpositivevictoria.org.au For more details on topics discussed in this episode, please visit: Positive Women Victoria: https://positivewomen.org.au

Rundown (featuring Eiddwen's beautiful new flower)[00:00:00] Hello’s and Intros [00:08:20] Alterative News led by Rob [00:18:10] In the 3CR Neighbourhood - James and Suzy Malhotra discuss her work at Living Positive Victoria, the peak body for People Living With HIV in Victoria, and her journey working with the Living with HIV Community.[00:45:15]  As today as the 23rd of September is international bisexuality day,  we caught up with  the amazing 3CR broadcaster Sally Goldner to discuss everything about the day and this year’s major conference  StandBI Us(link is external). [1:09:40] In a strange, strange tram thoughts this week - we discussed lawns, classism and what we should be doing with the front of our yards. Feat. many plants and communal land use vibes.  SongsThe Great Divide, Grids & DotsSixteen, Sarah GraingerBurnt Toast and Marmalade, AshaStill, Chris Lanzon

The Sexually Transmitted Infections podcast is back and we start with relevant advice for both clinicians and patients about HIV and COVID-19. STI podcast editor Dr Fabiola Martin* talks to Associate Professor Dr Edwina Wright, who’s leading the COVID-19 Taskforce for the Australasian Society of HIV, viral hepatitis and STIs (ASHM), and Mr Adam Ehm, President of Living Positive Victoria and is a member of the COVID-19 ASHM Taskforce.  They discuss the recent statements released by the British HIV Association and ASHM to assist health care providers and people living with HIV during the COVID-19 pandemic. *Dr Fabiola Martin is a Consultant Physician in Sexual Health, HIV and HTLV medicine in Brisbane and Senior Research Fellow at School of Public Health, University of Queensland.Read more about this subject on the Sexually Transmitted Infections blog: https://blogs.bmj.com/sti/2020/04/07/covid-19-and-hiv-calling-attention-to-the-importance-of-ensuring-hiv-status-and-testing-is-included-in-the-management-of-covid-19/ https://blogs.bmj.com/sti/2020/06/04/hiv-covid-19-podcast/ Join the conversation on Twitter and Facebook and please subscribe to the podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest episodes.

The Sexually Transmitted Infections podcast is back and we start with relevant advice for both clinicians and patients about HIV and COVID-19. STI podcast editor Dr Fabiola Martin* talks to Associate Professor Dr Edwina Wright, who's leading the COVID-19 Taskforce for the Australasian Society of HIV, viral hepatitis and STIs (ASHM), and Mr Adam Ehm, President of Living Positive Victoria and is a member of the COVID-19 ASHM Taskforce.  They discuss the recent statements released by the British HIV Association and ASHM to assist health care providers and people living with HIV during the COVID-19 pandemic. *Dr Fabiola Martin is a Consultant Physician in Sexual Health, HIV and HTLV medicine in Brisbane and Senior Research Fellow at School of Public Health, University of Queensland.Read more about this subject on the Sexually Transmitted Infections blog: https://blogs.bmj.com/sti/2020/04/07/covid-19-and-hiv-calling-attention-to-the-importance-of-ensuring-hiv-status-and-testing-is-included-in-the-management-of-covid-19/ https://blogs.bmj.com/sti/2020/06/04/hiv-covid-19-podcast/ Join the conversation on Twitter and Facebook and please subscribe to the podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest episodes.

  This week Cal and Michael dial in with Phil Carswell, the inaugural President of the Victorian AIDS Council (now Thorne Harbour Health) to discuss the very first AIDS Candlelight Memorial - and the importance of understanding and remembering our HIV history. We take a moment to reflect on Patti LaBelle's Oh, People.  The memorial will connect us digitally on Sunday 17th May 5-6pm. Head to Living Positive Victoria's website for more details Later, we connect t with two Thorne Harbour Health volunteers, Alberto and Andrew in the lead up to National Volunteers Week next week. They share with us how they are staying actively engaged in their volunteer roles during COVID, and what motivates them to volunteer with Thorne Harbour. Before we sign off we discuss some changes (and possible hurdles) to PrEP access and look forward to getting physical again as restrictions start to ease in Victoria. Volunteer with Thorne Harbour Health  The AIDS Candlelight Memorial Rainbow Connections at Thorne Harbour Health  Queer Fiction in Strange Times - LGBTI Women's writing workshop: Sunday May 17 Conquering COVID: Starting May 19   This show originally aired Thursday 14th May 2020. Grab this and other podcasts from the Well, Well, Well team on iTunes | Spotify | or your favourite podcast platform – or head to joy.org.au/wellwellwell Head to www.thorneharbour.org for more information about Thorne Harbour’s LGBTI health and well-being services

As the world comes to grips with the expanding climate surrounding Coronavirus, and particularly what it means for people living with HIV. Michael and Tex talk with Doherty Institute Director Professor Sharon Lewin and Living Positive Victoria's CEO Richard Keane about Coronavirus and HIV. for support contact joy.org.au/support Call Switchboard 3pm-midnight on 1800 184 527 Coronavirus Health Information Line on 1800 020 080 Coronavirus information from Victoria  Info for PLHIV at Living Positive Victoria 

Part two of a four part series of recordings from LaTrobe University’s Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society’s one-day symposium looking critically at the intersection points of HIV and people’s lives, especially people and communities affected by HIV who have not been at the centre of the Australian HIV response. Hope Mathumbu, secretary of the Victorian African Health Action Network and Chiedza Malunga, an African Australian Healthcare Professional discuss concepts such as invisibility, hypervisibility, allyship and service delivery in relation to HIV and Intersectionality. Hear from Sarah Feagan, a peer navigator at Living Positive Victoria discussing her work supporting women living with HIV. 

We hear some news items and shout outs: FPVFLS funding cuts (#SaveFVPLS) , CJ Palmer solidarity fundraiser,  Power from the Margins, and 3CR awards. We hear audio from the HIV and Intersectionality Symposium (2019), from the panel 'Intersections of colonisation, racism and HIV', touching on issues around borders, migration and racism: featuring Christian Vega (LGBTIQA+ engagement and projects - Multicultural Health and Support Service at Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health),  Peter Waples Crowe (Aboriginal health - Thorne Harbour Health) and Aashvin (Peer navigator - Living Positive Victoria) . Credit to Hope Mathumbu of Women on the Line for the recording. We then hear from surprise guest Sha Gaze. Finally, we hear about the Visability exhibition,  Disrupting Artistic Terra Nullius curated by Paolo Balla, and shout-outs to DJ Abyss from Hip Sista Hop.  TracksKaiit - Natural WomanThelma Plum - Woke BlokesElectric Fields  - Shade AwayMiss Blanks - Skinny Bitches

Interviews with Richard Keane, Holly Durant and Holly Brooke.   Richard Keane from Living Positive Victoria discusses access to HIV Treatments for overseas residents in Australia.   Artist Holly Durant chats from her 80-hour, non-stop art event Dermal Dimensions at RMIT in Melbourne.    Holly Brooke from activist group Pride in Protest joins us from Sydney to discuss their controversial motions at the Mardi Gras AGM, including condemning pharmaceutical giant Gilead for its prices of HIV treatments overseas, and their motions regarding ANZ, QANTAS, refugees and the need for an organisational ethics charter at Mardi Gras.   https://www.facebook.com/PrideInProtest/

It's almost December 1 - and that means we're approaching World AIDS Day Tex and Michael are in the studio chatting with Max Niggl and David O'Keeffe from Living Positive Victoria. It's new beginnings at LPV as David takes the reigns of the Positive Speakers Bureau - formerly helmed by Max. We're lucky to be joined by Max to share his 20 years of expertise and lived experience in the role, as well as to share David's vision moving forward. We discuss what the themes of World AIDS Day mean to both Max and David, and discuss what LPV has planned for the day to celebrate the lives of people living with and lost to HIV. Michael and Tex chat about what Thorne Harbour Health is up to in the lead up to the day, including our Red Ribbon Street Appeal (tomorrow!) Friday. And we would be remiss if we did not discuss the uniquely Victorian red ribbon and it's history spanning decades, and continents - born right here in Melbourne. World AIDS Day is commemorated on December 1 each year, but you'll catch Thorne Harbour Health staff and volunteers out and about the city tomorrow at businesses, metro train stations, and about the CBD. Can't see us in person for your red ribbon? Fear not! you can donate directly at thorneharbour.org/donate  For 78 World AIDS Day events happening elsewhere across the country head to worldaidsday.org.au Find out more about the community launch, forum, and symposium hosted by Living Positive Victoria by visiting livingpositivevictoria.org.au      This show, Episode #699 originally aired Thursday 28th November 2019. Catch our 700th show next week! Grab this and other podcasts from the Well, Well, Well team on iTunes | Spotify | or your favourite podcast platform – or head to joy.org.au/wellwellwell Head to www.thorneharbour.org for more information about Thorne Harbour’s LGBTI health and well-being services

Chris Williams from emen8.com.au talks to Cal from ASHM 2019 This week Cal is joined by Gerry from Taking Charge, the HIV & Ageing project from Thorne Harbour Health and Living Positive Victoria for people living with HIV 50 years old and over. Then Chris Williams from Emen8 calls in from the 2019 Australasian Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Conferences (ASHM2019) in Perth. Chris talks through the latest sexual health news coming out of the conference including interviews with: Madeline from SpeeDx about a new strategy in addressing drug-resistant gonorrhoea Dr Vincent Cornelisse about transmitting gonorrhoea via saliva and the release of ASHM's new PrEP guidelines Liz & Teddy, investigators from the inaugural Australian Trans and Gender Diverse Sexual Health Survey  While only a portion of the interview with Liz & Teddy was featured in this episode, you can listen to the full interview here:       This show, Episode #689 originally aired Thursday 19th September 2019. Grab this and other podcasts from the Well, Well, Well team on iTunes | Spotify | or your favourite podcast platform – or head to joy.org.au/wellwellwell Head to www.thorneharbour.org for more information about Thorne Harbour’s LGBTI health and well-being services Thorne Harbour is social! facebook: facebook.com/thorneharbour  |  twitter: @ThorneHarbour  |  instagram: @thorneharbour http://joy.org.au/wellwellwell/wp-content/uploads/sites/69/2019/09/Liz-and-Teddy_Extended-Interview.mp3

I sat in the waiting room, teeth chattering, gasping for breath between counting down the numbers flashing on the screen next to the TV running the seven am news at ten, the reporter regurgitating reports of this disaster in this country and that tension between those two parties, the volume turned down low, almost deliberately so you were forced to think. And to over-think. The lips of the news anchor mouthing along to the chatter that had become my inner-monologue, nagging. Gnawing. Stop. Three more to go. Salting the Reaper’s Fields by Ashvin Jeevan   Salting the Reaper’s Fields is based off the journal entries documenting my experience as a young gay man newly diagnosed with HIV. It is a story of triumph and recognising one’s own resilience when faced with adversity. Aashvin is a peer-worker with Living Positive Victoria who responds to persons newly diagnosed with HIV or presenting with complexities from an earlier diagnosis. Acknowledgements: Memoria is written,  produced, edited and presented by Natalie V. Salting the Reaper’s Fields is written and read by Ashvin Jeevan. The story is sound edited by Jen Farrow. Music in this episode is by Blue Dot Sessions,   “Pat Dog” and “Heliotrope”. Illustrations by Peta Manning. Her book, See Me Doodle, is out now.   Support the show.

The centrepiece of Living Positive Victoria’s 2018 World AIDS Day presentation was a community forum on the topic Living and Ageing with HIV, moderated by Dr Chris Lemoh, President of the Victorian African Health Action Network.The panel comprised, Dr Clovis Palmer, Head, Palmer Laboratory Burnet Institute; Dr Liz Crock, Bolton Clarke Clinical Nurse Consultant/Team Coordinator; David Menadue OAM, HIV activist and Bev Greet, HIV activist.

Recorded live at the launch of World AIDS Day 2018 at the AMREP Theatre in Melbourne Australia. Featuring a welcome speech from Adam Ehm President of Living Positive Victoria, who highlights this year’s theme “Everybody Counts.” Speakers include: Peter Breadon Executive Director, Community Participation, Health and Wellbeing Division, a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoove from the Burnet Institute and Dr Susan Paxton and Mr Julien Fournier from the Positive Speakers Bureau of Living Positive Victoria

The theme of World AIDS Day 2018 is "Everybody Counts". This reminds us that HIV affects everybody and that we must not forget the intersections of minorities within minorities. In the show leading up to World AIDS Day. Max Niggl, coordinator of the Positive Speakers Bureau from Living Positive Victoria, comes on to talk about stigma & discrimination. Max bravely shares with us his personal experience as a gay man, openly living with HIV. The discussion continues around how we can combat stigma and discrimination both within the community and with the general public. Links:  World AIDS Day Memorial : thorneharbour.org/news-events/calendar-events/world-aids-day-memorial/ Photo gallery for WAD 2018 Street Appeal : thorneharbour.org/news-events/galleries/world-aids-day-2018-street-appeal/ Positive Speakers Bureau : livingpositivevictoria.org.au/positive-speakers-bureau/   This show, Episode #648 originally aired Thursday 29th November 2018. Grab this and other podcasts from the Well, Well, Well team on iTunes | Spotify | or your favourite podcast platform - or head to joy.org.au/wellwellwell Head to www.thorneharbour.org for more information about Thorne Harbour's LGBTI health and well-being services Thorne Harbour is social! facebook: facebook.com/thorneharbour  |  twitter: @ThorneHarbour  |  instagram: @thorneharbour

James speaks with Dr Chris Lemoh, an infectious disease physician at Monash Health and president of the Victorian African Health Action Network (VAHAN), about the importance of HIV prevention in African communities, the stigma and the isolation experienced by PLHIV, the strategies used to increase access to HIV treatment and support, and the World AIDS Day 2018 Community Forum.World AIDS Day 2018 Community Forum, Saturday, 1 December, VU at Metrowest. Details. James speaks with Jane Green, a sex worker activist and member of the Vixen Collective, about the campaign to decriminalise sex work in Victoria, the serious pitfalls of the Nordic Model, and the divergent interests for sex workers of candidates in the upcoming Victorian State election.Read Jane’s blog at sexliesducttape.me. James speaks with Max Niggl, HIV educator, activist, and Speakers Bureau Coordinator with Living Positive Victoria, about the significance of World AIDS Day, his advocacy work, the perception of HIV stigma, the lived experience of PLHIV, and the World AIDS Forum in late November.World AIDS Forum, Friday, November 30, The Amrep Theatre. Details. James speaks with Heather M, Peer Support Program Coordinator at Positive Women Victoria, about her HIV promotion work for women of CALD backgrounds, the key issues for women living with HIV, the layers of challenges experienced in cultural communities, and the vital role of peer support and engagement.More information via positivewomen.org.au. If any of these interview segments have raised questions or caused distress to you, contact Lifeline, Qheadspace, QLife, or Switchboard Victoria.

Max Niggl from Living Positive Victoria discusses this weekend's International HIV/AIDS Candelight Memorial in Melbourne.  Mark Camilieri from QHealth at Queerspace talks about LGBTIQ alcohol and substance use issues. 

We are in an age where pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and understanding that an undetectable viral load means HIV is untransmittable (U=U). What does this mean to be living with HIV in Australia today? This week Cal Hawk talks to Daniel and Anth about their experiences living with HIV for a "Positive Voices" episode. Anth and Daniel are two members of Living Positive Victoria's Positive Speakers Bureau.  The Positive Speakers Bureau members are the human face of HIV and help to reduce fear, myths, stigma, and discrimination and to more fully understand the realities of living with the virus. The Positive Speakers Bureau is run by and for positive people who are highly trained public speakers and presenters. Whether you want more info about U=U, want a better understanding of stigma, or what to hear from other members of the Positive Speakers Bureau, head to: livingpositivevictoria.org.au. For more information on HIV treatment and the benefits of beginning treatment early, check out: TreatHIVnow.org.au         This show, Episode #617 originally aired Thursday 26th April, 2018. Grab this and other podcasts from the Well, Well, Well team on iTunes | Spotify | or your favourite podcast platform - or head to joy.org.au/wellwellwell Head to www.thorneharbour.org for more information about Thorne Harbour's LGBTI health and well-being services Thorne Harbour is social! facebook: facebook.com/thorneharbour  |  twitter: @ThorneHarbour  |  instagram: @thorneharbour  

Cal, Liam and Michael are joined in the studio by  Professor Sharon Lewin from the Doherty Institute & Living Positive Victoria's President Christabel Millar  to discuss HIV into the future in the final episode of our three part series looking at the past, present and future of HIV leading up to World AIDS Day. This show, Episode #601 originally aired Monday November 27th 2017 Grab this and other podcasts from the Well, Well, Well team on iTunes | Spotify | or your favourite podcast platform - or head to joy.org.au/wellwellwell Head to www.thorneharbour.org for more information about Thorne Harbour's LGBTI health and well-being services Thorne Harbour is social! facebook: facebook.com/thorneharbour  |  twitter: @ThorneHarbour  |  instagram: @thorneharbour  

Warren and Anastasia discuss how they commemorate World AIDS Day on December 1, and speak to Suzy Malhotra, Acting CEO of Living Positive Victoria about what this day stands for... LEARN MORE The post World AIDS Day, Wild Weather & Woman Spreading appeared first on Anastasia & Warren.

In the largest study of its kind, UNSW’s Kirby Institute conducted research with gay men in a sero-different relationship (where one partner is HIV positive and the other negative) from 2012-2016.The findings of the Opposites Attract Study reveal, nearly 17,000 acts of anal sex without a condom took place.  Not one case of HIV transference took place.We cross to the conference in Paris to speak with Professor Andrew Grulich from the Kirby Institute for this breaking news. One of the study participants, Andrew Thorpe, shares how important this research was for him as the negative partner in a sero-different relationship.Then we head back to Paris as the Executive Officer of Living Positive Victoria, Brent Allen, brings us up-to-date with the latest from the conference.

  The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial ceremony is co-ordinated worldwide by the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) and hosted in Melbourne by Living Positive Victoria with the support of the Victorian AIDS […] http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_comm/p/joy.org.au/joycommunityhighlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/125/2017/05/JCH-34th-AIDS-Candlelight-Memorial-2017-pod.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:05:57 — 60.4MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Spotify | RSS The post 34th International AIDS Candlelight Memorial “Ending HIV & AIDS together” appeared first on JOY Community Highlights.

Imagine arriving in a new country at 21 years of age, no friends, little family, dealing with a mental health condition and then being told you are HIV positive. Our guest found herself in that position over 8 years ago.Today she is the youngest women ever to be on the board of directors for Living Positive Victoria and recently was appointed the Health Promotions and Communications Co-ordinator for Positive Women.She is one of the new breed of inspirational voices in Australia’s HIV response. Softly spoken, super smart and gentle to the core, she is elegant, polite and proper. But don’t be fooled, she is no push over.Meet the English rose whose softness is the foundation of her resilience and determination, meet the amazing Christabel Millar.

They say leaders are born, not made.  Well in this episode we explore what made John Manwaring the leader he is today.  Having volunteered and worked for both Living Positive Victoria and the Victorian AIDS Council while studying law, John has just been appointed key policy adviser on HIV matters for the Victorian Government.

This week on ep 567, the third in the series of shows leading up to World AIDS Day 2016, Tex and Adam are joined by Mr Max Niggl from Living Positive Victoria. Also discussed are details that Living Positive Victoria have in store for WAD 2016.

Ep 565 starts a new series of shows leading up to World AIDS Day 2016. Adam & Jack chat about tools for bio-medical prevention of HIV strategies. Michael from PrEPaccessNOW and John from Living Positive Victoria discuss our options. Online information for Pep is available at GET PEP or phone the PEP Info Line 1800 889 887. VAC are hoping to recruit over 100 volunteers to help give out over 40K red ribbons on World AIDS Day 2016 on 1 December. To find out more or register to volunteer you can visit WAD or just give us a call on 03 98656700 and ask to speak with Daniel.

This week Tex & Adam talk with Joel Murray from Living Positive Victoria and the Positive Speaker Bureau and VAC’s Policy guru John Manwaring about a forthcoming Hep C and HIV Forum.

An annual celebration to acknowledge the generous contribution of our nation’s volunteers, this show celebrates everything about volunteering. Adam is joined by co-host and guest Daniel, the Volunteer Coordinator from VAC. Volunteers, Honnie and Raymond talk of their experiences at VAC, what they do and how to become involved. President of Living Positive Victoria, Richard Keane fills us in about the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial.

Stephanie and Clayton chatted with Max Niggl of Living Positive Victoria’s Positive Speaker’s Bureau. The three chatted about the upcoming International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, to be held on Sunday, 15 May 2016 in the City Square. http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_stand/p/joy.org.au/standupstraight/wp-content/uploads/sites/240/2016/05/SUS-5-th-May-2016.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 46:24 — 21.2MB) The post Engage, Educate, Empower appeared first on Stand Up Straight.

Jessie & Carlos together with Dr Stephen from The Centre Clinic, discuss treatment as prevention and the growing suite of options  available to prevent the transmission of HIV. Colin Batrouney manager of the Health Promotion Program tells us about the launch of a new campaign, Treat HIV Now, a joint project between Living Positive Victoria and VAC . Antony from The Revisioning Group explains the therapeutic service that is being offered exclusively to gay and bisexual men who are finding their anger, frustration or violence to be impacting on their relationships with their partners, family or friends.

In this second part of a World AIDS Day series Jack and Adam continue with some important events for World AIDS Day in a discussion with Max Niggl from Living Positive Victoria. This week's special guest is Jesse Oey a VAC volunteer who is the inaugural winner of the Greig Friday Leadership Award for 2015. Jesse has been involved in the Peer Education Program.      

Tex, Jack and Jessie are with you today for this week's show, joined by Guy Hussey and Daniel Brace from Living Positive Victoria. The team are tackling the topic of syphilis and living with HIV while chatting about their latest campaign to Stamp Out Syphilis.

On today's show, Jack and Murray discuss the upcoming International AIDS Candlelight Memorial for 2015 with Max Niggl, Speakers Bureau Coordinator at Living Positive Victoria. Jeremy Wiggins, counsellor with the Victorian AIDS Council, chats to the boys about IDAHO (International Day Against Homophobia) with a broader emphasis on queer/trans phobia.

Join Carlos, Jack amd Anthony this week as we're joined by Brent Allen from Living Positive Victoria to talk about treatment as prevention. We also have a chat with Harry McAnulty, team leader of the health promotion team at VAC, about Sexy Tests. You can watch the teaser clip below for even more info. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WMBJuCLaeM Congratulations go out to our very own Well, Well, Well co-host Murray and his new husband Steven on their recent marriage!

With the Victorian State Elections fast approaching, we are going to introduce: “HIV/AIDS: What your Government can do?” a document that the Victorian AIDS Council and Living Positive Victoria put together for the general public addressing 10 specific issues and recommending actions to the next Victorian Government in regards to responding effectively to the HIV epidemic in Victoria.

Join Adam, Murray and Tex for today's show, talking with Daniel Brace from Living Positive Victoria who will be discussing the organisation's role in the community. Daniel will be joined later by Helen and Will chatting about their project 'In The Loop', a free support group for carers, partners, friends, and family of people living with HIV.

On today’s show, we chat with Max Niggl from Living Positive Victoria about the Positive Speakers Bureau.

Tex and Jason talk to Max from Living Positive Victoria about a new program called Senior Voices. And the first community based rapid HIV clinic in Victoria called Pronto opens.

Tonight Jason and Adam are chatting with Guy Hussey from Living Positive Victoria about a new workshop called HOPE, followed by some health news.

Tonight Jason and Tex are chatting with John and Shane from Living Positive Victoria's, PSB. John and Shane share their journey with the listeners about becoming positive through to now and being speaking for the Positive Speakers bureau.

Tonight Jason and Adam will be covering some HIV and health news followed by a very informative discussion with Suzy Malhotra from Living Positive Victoria. Suzy will be chatting with Adam and Jason about PLWHA rebranding and various programmes including, Peer Education, Phoenix Workshop, World AIDS Day and Planet Positive.