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Activists launch crowdfunder to publish powerful calendar, which tells the incredible history of HIV and AIDS in the capital

Graham Robson November 12, 2024

AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) activists have launched a crowdfunder to cover printing costs of a powerful new pin-up calendar, which tells the incredible history of HIV and AIDS in the capital for the first time. A groundbreaking public health coalition of over 30 leading public health institutions, hospitals, trade unions, charities, NGOs […]

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Take Action. Lace Up. This year’s World AIDS Day RED RUN to take place Saturday, November 23

Graham Robson October 29, 2024

Since 2009, East London HIV charity Positive East has organised the World AIDS Day RED RUN on the last weekend of November – just before World AIDS Day on December 1. What began with a small gathering of 50 people is now one of the UK’s biggest annual HIV community events, raising over £1.1 million […]

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HIV The Naked Truth to launch 2025 calendar and fundraise for Positive East on November 29

Graham Robson August 28, 2024

HIV The Naked Truth is a group of likeminded people with a mission to end HIV stigma through the arts, celebrating World AIDS Day on December 1. On November 29, the group will launch its 2025 calendar and raise funds for Positive East with Irish drag queen Drew Diva hosting live performances from Havannah, Clapmutt […]

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UK’s AIDS Memorial Quilt digitised by Google Arts & Culture to mark World AIDS Day and ensure those lost to the AIDS epidemic are never forgotten

Graham Robson December 1, 2023

The UK AIDS Memorial Quilt celebrates the lives of those tragically lost to the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and ’90s. To mark World AIDS Day (1 December), the quilt is available online for the very first time as it launches on Google Arts & Culture to ensure those who died are never forgotten. The […]

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Are you recently diagnosed or having difficulty coming to terms with an HIV diagnosis? Terrence Higgins Trust and partners to run series of workshops to help you deal with your diagnosis and live well

Graham Robson October 2, 2023

Sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust is working in partnership with Positively UK, METRO and Positive East to provide in-person and online workshops to help you deal with your diagnosis and gain the knowledge and tools to live well with HIV. Each workshop is run by a different organisation and is led by people living with HIV. 

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Playwell Productions and Positive East to curate powerful exhibition on diverse HIV experiences to accompany Live to Tell: (A Proposal For) the Madonna Jukebox Musical by Brian Mullin

Graham Robson March 17, 2023

Live To Tell: (A Proposal For) The Madonna Jukebox Musical is a “highly personal, impassioned stance on living with HIV” (Everything Theatre) that follows the quest of Brian, a Madonna superfan living with HIV, as he pitches himself to Madonna to create a musical based on her songs, whilst also facing what it means in his own life to survive with HIV.

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Fundraising News

Take Action. Lace Up: World AIDS Day RED RUN to take place on Saturday, November 26

Graham Robson November 7, 2022

Taking place on Saturday, November 26 the World AIDS Day Red Run is a 10K/5K charity fun run and 5K walk through leafy Victoria Park, East London to support essential HIV charities across the UK!

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Community News

Take Action; Lace Up: World AIDS Day RED RUN to return on November 26

Graham Robson September 27, 2022

The World AIDS Day RED RUN, a 10k/5k charity fun run and 5K walk, is to return to London’s Victoria Park on Saturday, November 26. Organised to unite the HIV sector, the RED RUN creates a platform for HIV organisations across the country to raise awareness and vital funds for their work.

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New HIV prevention contract for London announced

Besi Besemar March 3, 2015

The GMI Partnership, led by METRO Charity with Positive East and West London Gay Men’s Project working with NHS Freedoms Shop, has been awarded just under £1 million over two years to continue to provide outreach and condom distribution across London to gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men (MSM).

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