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In January we organised a mindfulness workshop for our members with Psychologist, Anastasia Dailiani from the Anxiety Trust. Mindfulness is a helpful tool to learn, particularly in these uncertain and worrying times. It can be used for reducing anxiety and worries and to help us feel calmer and more relaxed.

The HIV Women's Seminar is an important event for our community. However, with the COVID predictions for 2022 and with the safety of our members being our top priority, we believe it could be risky to run the Seminar in its current format this year.

Times are financially tough at the moment for many NGOs. Funding streams have been restricted due to Covid and Positive Women Inc. has been affected. Therefore we are reaching out to see if you would consider supporting our charity through payroll giving. 

Understanding HIV can help reduce stigma as well as help educate others. If you haven’t already, try the HIV Essentials Online Course – empower yourself or validate what you already know. It's free, only 2 hours long, and qualifies for education points.

We have some wonderful workshops planned for the coming months. The focus of these workshops is connection and wellbeing. We understand everyone is busy but setting aside a small amount of time for yourself each month can be valuable for overall health and happiness.

We are very excited to congratulate and welcome the creation of a new Māori people living with HIV network called Toitū te Ao. 
Toitū te Ao will be offering support, by Māori for Māori, living with HIV as well as providing educational information and advocacy with an indigenous lens. 

Updates on recent Board activities and how they have adapted to the new online 'normal' that Covid has caused.

Jan has been a member of Positive Women Inc. for more than 15 years after contracting HIV through a work-related needle stick injury while caring for a patient who had AIDS.  Over those 15 years Jan has been a Board member twice, she is a Positive Speaker and was instrumental for the shift towards the use of retractable needles by many DHB’s in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Tēnā koutou for the last time this year, and what another strange sort of year it has been.  It has sped past so fast yet at times gone so slowly. I feel like we have been living in a giant global experiment. Conditions to test even the strongest of nerves and resilience.  Yet here we are once again. That time of year to slow down, relax a little and celebrate whatever kind of holiday and festivities we each believe in.