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Today marks the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersex Discrimination and Transphobia, (IDAHOBIT), an important day to reflect on just how far we have come as a society but also to raise awareness around the work we still have to do to achieve inclusion, accountability and equity for all. ..
.“Positive Life NSW celebrates this milestone and other advancements in LGBTQIA+ equality and human rights, but the sobering reality is that those rights are tenuous and very much under attack, not only globally, but here in Australia as well..."

Trans Day of Visibility, marked every year on 31 March is an international celebration of trans pride and awareness, recognising trans and gender diverse experiences and achievements.

For many trans and gender diverse people a lack of representation, role models, and community can be isolating and make it difficult to feel proud in their identities.

“We as an organisation know full well that when your lived experience and right to be who you are is scrutinised, politicised, and weaponised, you

Thursday 09 March 2023 is Australia’s eighth National Day of Women living with HIV. On this day we recognise and affirm all women living with HIV, including our trans and gender diverse sisters and those who identify as non-binary, under the 2023 aspirational theme ‘Challenging Stigma: Closing the Gender Gap’. The annual National Day of Women living with HIV is a day to celebrate the lives of all women living with HIV as well as an opportunity to challenge stigma in all its forms and raise aware

As we approach 26 January, we recognise that for a great many of our community this public holiday, one that was only established 29 years ago, is anything but a cause for celebration. On 26 January 1788, the first fleet landed on the shores off Botany, New South Wales in what we now have come to know as Australia, beginning a journey of violent dispossession, erosion of human rights, and loss that is still deeply felt to this day. As an organisation Positive Life NSW stands with the Aboriginal

Positive Life NSW welcomes World AIDS Day 2022 marked on Thursday 01 December, with this year’s International World AIDS theme of ‘Equalise’ being a powerful call to action to address, and dismantle the inequalities and barriers that impede on progress and human dignity.

“Even with today’s knowledge, treatments and tools, we have not ended HIV transmission four decades on, due to the systemic inequalities and lack of awareness that restrict access to HIV prevention and treatment,” said Positive

HIV advocates and community members -- some in lockdown states, some not -- have put their perspectives down to help us to get our head around what having sex (or choosing not to) involves at the moment.

Sex can be a difficult topic to discuss at the best of times, given it speaks to highly personal and intimate feelings we have about ourselves and others. But in COVID, with uncertainty about risk factors for transmission of the virus, it is extremely hard to get most people to open up about th

Ross worked for HIV sector for almost 30 years in many roles including education, HIV support and treatments information. He was first openly HIV+ person on ANCARD - at the time the main federal government advisory body. "After having a stroke a decade ago and being looked after by the HIV Outreach Team, I then worked as a paid consumer advocate. I stopped paid work a couple of years ago and moved home to Melbourne where I sit on my balcony surrounded by plants and swear about a second pandemic.

Heather Ellis is a freelance journalist and author of two bestselling travel memoirs. She has been living with HIV for 23 years and is a former Chair of Positive Women Victoria, Australia’s only fully funded support and advocacy group for women living with HIV. Heather lives near Melbourne, Australia, with her three children. To read more about Heather and to buy her books: Ubuntu: One Woman’s Motorcycle Odyssey Across Africa (Black Inc., 2016) and Timeless On The Silk Road: An Odyssey From Lond