This free seminar will explore the current landscape of HIV in New Zealand and will host a wide array of speakers from the medical and healthcare community, researchers and more. There will also be people who live with HIV sharing their personal stories with the audience.
This year's seminar focuses on important topics such as, Ageing with HIV, Testing for HIV, Breastfeeding, the continued conversation surrounding stigma, and Te Taenga Mai HIV resources for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Speakers will include Sue McAlister from AIDS Epidemiology Group, Regan Gilchrist from Otago University, Milly Stewart from Toitū te Ao, multiple speakers from Positive Women Inc. including Abby Leota, Ash Al-Aziz, Judith Mukakayange and the national coordinator Jane Bruning. More details will be released in the coming weeks.
Open to all health professionals, health promoters, counsellors, social workers and others working in HIV as well as people living with HIV. To register visit seminar registration.
Programme below.