A National Strategy for Addressing HIV Stigma

To build a national strategy to tackle HIV-related stigma, we quickly realised that the intersecting experiences of HIV-related stigma in Scotland, such as stigma related to drug use, sexual practice and perceived risk of HIV would also need to be addressed to effectively eliminate HIV-related stigma. Creating the first community-led national Strategy required significant collaboration across multiple sectors.

This poster was presented at AIDS 2018 Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Consultation on Malicious Disclosure of HIV Status

HIV Scotland has launched a consultation to understand the views of people living with and affected by HIV, organisations and legal professionals on whether malicious disclosure of someone's HIV status should be made a hate crime.
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Waverley Care's first Ageing Positively workshop.
Ageing with HIV Expert Seminar: Quality of Life

This seminar was designed to bring together people living with HIV, key partners, decision-makers, and the third sector to discuss and learn about ensuring the best quality of life for older adults living with HIV.
Creative Activism

Building on the work of our book, Disclosures: Rewriting the Narrative About HIV, we will develop spaces for people living with and affected by HIV to take part in creative activism by sharing their stories, both fiction and non-fiction. We believe that a creative outlet can hugely benefit people living with and affected by HIV.

Bringing the sector and community together to address the challenges of HIV

Jeffrey Hirono, Policy and Research Manager, is responsible for the research that informs the work of HIV Scotland. Here he stresses the importance of the sector working in unison and involving the community.
Disclosures: Rewriting the narrative about HIV through creative activism

This poster reflects on HIV Scotland's creative activism project which produced the book, Disclosures: Rewriting the narrative about HIV.
Meaningful Involvement to design solutions: Living well into older age

People living with HIV are living into old age. The poster highlights the experiences of people living with HIV into older age and the Living Well: 50+ project.
Changing Laws to enable People Living with HIV to train as Pilots

A human rights approach to successfully change national aviation laws to enable people living with HIV to train as Pilots.
PrEP in Scotland Report

Report to provide recommendations on PrEP in Scotland to the Sexual Health & Blood Borne Virus Executive Leads from the HIV PrEP Short Life Working Group.
Integrating Human Rights into the Criminal Justice System

This poster examines a range of actions to improve criminal justice policy and practice as it applied to HIV.
An examination of services supporting people living with HIV

This research examined the services available in Scotland and to identify areas of opportunities.
Examining Patient and Service User Involvement

This poster examines how service users are involved in the design and delivery of services and policy-making.
Influencing the Scottish Regulator Framework for PrEP

This poster highlights key steps during the process of lobbying Scottish regulators to approve PrEP.
Informing the national decision to approve PrEP

This poster highlights the process the sector took to ensure that PrEP was approved in Scotland.