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Please find attached the latest information supplied by the Auckland infectious diseases department about the Pfizer vaccine for people living with

We have some wonderful workshops planned for the coming six 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 your overall health and happiness.

On Friday 17th September 2021 Body Positive had the ambitious task of moving a live seminar online. It was a great day of presentations on a range of topics relating to HIV from a New Zealand perspective.

What a roller-coaster we have all been in the last couple of months. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, I'm writing this enjoying the bright daylight savings morning waiting for warmer days to come.

The Ministry of Health has engaged in a process of developing a new National Strategy for Sexually Transmitted and Blood Born infections (STTBI) which will include individual action plans for separate conditions such as HIV, Syphilis, Hepatitis, etc. 

Life continues to be a surreal out-of-body experience at the moment as we grabble with COIVD lockdowns and finding a new way of living our lives from the ones we once took so much for granted.

We excited to announce that we have just launched a website dedicated to teenagers living with HIV in Aotearoa NZ.

Over 500 people are now HIV Essentials certified! That’s right, we have seen over 500 people now successfully complete HIV Essentials online course. Thank you to all the organisations that have promoted and encouraged their staff to do it. 

The Positively Women research team from the Kirby Institute, UNSW, Sydney, are offering tours of the Positively Women Online Exhibition: