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WOMEN SERVICES

If you are a woman living with HIV we are here to help. We offer support around dealing with your diagnosis, dating and relationships, maintaining a good physical and mental health, pleasurable and safer sex, pregnancy or contraception. You can also talk to us if you want to know about your rights as a woman living with HIV. 

We run online groups every other week usually on Wednesdays, which can be accessed by women receiving HIV care from anywhere within the UK. As COVID-19 restrictions are lifting there will be opportunities for face-to-face meetings that you will need to register for in advance. For more information, keep up with our calendar or contact our Women’s Casework Coordinators Helen and Neo.  

 

 

Thank you for making me feel myself again

Living with HIV isn’t something you have to deal with on your own. Our Women’s Room group for women living with HIV meets the second Wednesday of every month.

Facilitated by trained and knowledgeable staff and peer mentors, the group provides a safe, friendly space for you to get peer support, build life skills, have fun and socialise. Each month focuses on a different theme. Travel cost reimbursement and refreshments are provided too. 

Our Mentor Mothers are women who have been through the pregnancy journey whilst living with HIV themselves.

 They are trained to provide emotional and practical support around all aspects of the pregnancy journey, including talking about HIV to others, treatment, delivery options, and aftercare. A mentor mother can be like a friend by your side to support you, give you information, or simply talk through all your concerns during and after pregnancy.

We provide peer-led support, accurate and accessible information, and networks and spaces to help women feel powerful comfortable with themselves as they embrace growing older. Read more about the GROWS project

 

The Catwalk4Power toolkit is a creative guide for women with HIV and their allies. It was developed at the end of our Catwalk4Power project to share the generated knowledge and experience to support women create their very own empowering catwalk event.
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Positively Past Positively Present is a collaboration between Positively UK and The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama. The research project looks at documenting and amplifying the narratives of women living with HIV by looking at the inspiring history of Positively Women, stored in Positively UK’s archives. Read more here. 

Bearded & Flushed is a partnership between Naz, Sophia Forum, 4M and Positively UK and it was funded by the Public Health England Innovation Fund.

In October 2021, Bearded & Flushed provided space for 16 women ageing with HIV to discover their creative voice over a series of writing workshops focussing on living well with HIV and living through the menopause.

More and more women with HIV are getting older, and experiencing menopause, but they face a double taboo of stigma and invisibility. These writing workshops gave creative expression to one of the most under spoken and under researched areas of women’s lives.

The result is a life-affirming collection of stories, poems, haikus and love letters by women modelling extraordinary talent, courage and wisdom to countless other women going through the menopause and living with HIV.

Following on from these workshops, we filmed individual vignettes and a short film featuring the work and stories of some of the women from the courses, directed by Tom Line.

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Women's Space Events

march

08mar5:30 pm8:00 pmInternational Women's Day: Movie Premiere

april

10apr5:00 pm8:00 pmWomen's Group South London: Charge Your Mind

24apr6:00 pm7:30 pmWomen's Room: A Time to Talk

Women's Space Latest Articles

Saluting the Women who Created Positively Women: Sheila’s story We’ve partnered with the talented filmmakers Kat Low and Chuck Blue Lowry to produce short film documenting the extraordinary journey of one of our founders, Sheila. Set during an era when ...

It’s Time to Talk about SEX: In celebration of Sexual Health week 2023, we wanted to spotlight Silvia’s blog on the intersection of sex, pleasure and HIV. Good sex, intimacy and sensual pleasure are an important part of quality of ...

Our Youth Project Coordinator, Michelle, took part in this year’s National HIV Nurses Association Conference. She was invited to present the perspective of a young woman living HIV herself and working with young women living with HIV. “I really enjoy ...

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PERSONAL STORIES

10th October marks World Mental Health Day – a day to raise awareness of mental

The first week of June marks the National Volunteers’ Week when we appreciate and recognise

Memory Sachikonye, our Admin and Finance Lead, is one of the most inspirational and versatile

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