The Informer

30 Nov 2017

Positive Women are a part of our history too

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With World AIDS Day tomorrow, we dedicate this episode of The Informer to look at where we have come as a community to where we need to go to provide greater support and fight the stigma and discrimination people living with HIV face daily.

 

Gay men have been front and center of HIV and AIDS epidemic as well as its activism, and have received the lions share of attention, funding and support, but in the past 5 years there has been a big effort in Australia to leave no one behind and remember that there are other communities that are HIV+ who are just as much a part of the narrative and landscape, and its time we paid more attention.

Ian had a chat with Sarah Feagen, President of Positive Women Victoria who has also just joined the Board of the National Association of people living with HIV Australia and Bev Greet, one of the founders and also a past President of Positive Women Victoria.

This segment of The Informer on JOY 94.9 aired on 30th November 2017

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