Today Positiva Gruppen Syd is an organization working for anyone living with HIV regardless of gender, sex, nationality, ethnicity or other intersectional differences β with the purpose to increase the well being and quality of life for people living with HIV. A great deal has changed since HIV has transformed from being a deadly disease into a chronic condition. Nowadays we say people living with HIV, which means that those of us living with HIV now need to learn to live with the virus.
At the same time there is a need to bring this knowledge to the general public, and increase the understanding of what living with HIV is like. Medically we have come along way, but there are still issues with stigma and health disparities for people living with HIV. We aim to change that for the better.
Contact us! We gladly visit schools, public events and organizations to talk about HIV. To increase the quality of lives for people living with HIV and increase the public knowledge about HIV we are working in three areas:.
Provide and encourage meetings between people living with HIV, which in turn enables knowledge exchange and peer support. Facilitate connections so people living with hiv with ease can connect to others with HIV, both offline and online. Information should be provided equally and consistently to ensure everyone is granted the opportunity to improve their health through peer-support. To provide meetings between people living with hiv and the public in order to decrease HIV stigma and and increase knowledge about HIV.
Do you want to know more about previous years work? Read more in our annual reports Swedish only. Hannah is a trained addiction therapist and has been working in the field of social work for the past 10 years. Soon she will get her certification as a relationship therapist. Hannah has a next of kin perspective on HIV and will work to strengthen the well-being of people living with the diagnosis and increase knowledge about HIV in society.
