News

We are excited share the new name for the refugee, asylum seekers and migrant programme we have been working on. The name was developed together with Māori and approved by the Community Roopu Tautoku.   

The Annual Burnett Foundation Big Gay Out was held on Sunday 18 February 2024.  
Positive Women Inc. joined forces with Toitū te Ao and the Burnett Centre, offering HIV testing on site.   It was a very busy day with the team testing 75  people from all walks of life, between midday and 5pm. 

Ten amazing people attended the Positive Speakers Whakataki new Speakers training in February 2024.  Always a very powerful and exhilarating event, this one was no exception.  
Five women and five men came from all over the country and spent 4 days together at the beautiful Long Bay Retreat Centre. 

The new Governance Board of Positive Women Inc. meet for the first time on Sunday 28 January 2024.  
A social dinner was held at the Mexican Café the evening before which was an opportunity for the Board to officially meet the Operations Team.

As we head into March, the pace is picking up and we anticipate a huge year in 2024 with many projects coming to fruition, some of which are mentioned in this month’s news.  

After a COVID hiatus in 2022, the annual HIV Women’s Seminar was back this year held at Sorrento in the Park on 29 September 2023.
98 people attended the seminar from a variety of different sectors including, midwives, nurse practitioners, Refugee and Migrant community organisations, health promotors, sexual health workers and people living with HIV.

The Ageing with HIV research report was officially launched at the HIV Women’s Seminar on Friday 29 September 2023. Findings from the research were presented by Abby Leota and Milly Stewart who were the Kaiārahi of the project which was initiated by Positive Women Inc. and worked in collaboration with a number of other sector agencies.