News reached us this week that the #AIDSMemoryUK campaign founded by Ash Kotak, a long-term survivor of HIV, has announced that the London AIDS Memorial will be centrally located on Tottenham Court Road, close to the locations of: the first … Continue reading UK Aids memorials to be linked by national memorial website. London memorial due to be in Tottenham Court Road.
During yesterday’s Downing Street Briefing, the British Prime Minster, the Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, said that We haven’t got vaccines against SARS, AIDS or whatever. The Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, Downing Street Briefing This is really not on. … Continue reading Mistake of British Prime Minister over HIV and AIDS illustrates why reporting guidelines are so important
Yesterday, on 1st March 2021, HIV Ireland hosted a webinar to launch their new Media Reporting Guidelines, to help journalists and editors in how to talk about HIV and AIDS. I was fortunate to be asked to take part as … Continue reading Zero Discrimination Day 2021 marked by launch of Media Reporting Guidelines
On Monday 1st March 2021, I am pleased to have been invited to take part in a panel discussion as a guest of HIV Ireland at the launch of their new Media Reporting Guidelines. To mark Zero Discrimination Day 2021 … Continue reading Launch of HIV Ireland’s Media Reporting Guidelines on 1st March
Having had my first appointment with the National Transplant team in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin in January, I knew that I would be referred to their Infectious Diseases consultant and their Nephrologist before I could even think about being added … Continue reading Next stage in work up to transplant
It is World AIDS Day, so it is time to share this video. However it is also 2020, so although kissing, hugging, sharing drinks, handshakes, high fives, smiles,1 and winks can’t transmit HIV, COVID-19 is another matter. Andrew McFarland Campbell … Continue reading World AIDS Day 2020
With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, World Aids Day 2020 will be very different from previous WADs. In Victoria, Australia, there will be a number of events run by Living Positive Victoria which will be via Zoom. Have a look — … Continue reading World Aids Day in Victoria goes virtual
For the last eleven years and more, I have been writing about what it is like to live with HIV. Every so often, in the media—be it print or broadcast—I have seen some shocking ways of referring to people living … Continue reading HIV terminology guidelines: how to write about living with HIV or AIDS
The third step of humility is that for the love of God one should be obedient to a superior in all things imitating the Lord of whom the Apostles says, ‘He was made obedient even unto death.’ The Rule of Saint Benedict, Chapter 7: Humility, translated by Abbot Parry OSB, Gracewing, 1990. In recent weeks and months, I have been re-reading The Rule of Saint Benedict, with a view to putting the principles of his rule into practice in my own life. A couple of Sundays ago I was on a Zoom call with the House of Initia Nova Benedictines … Continue reading Meds: a matter of obedience — thanks St Benedict
Ground-breaking new study shows the efficacy of a long-acting injectable to prevent HIV UNAIDS has warmly welcomed the announcement that the long-acting injectable cabotegravir is safe and effective in preventing HIV among gay men and other men who have sex … Continue reading Welcome from UNAIDS for new tool for HIV prevention for gay men and other men who have sex with men and trangender women
