Help make a difference in the future, leave a legacy

This Best Will Week, Monday 31st October to Friday 4th November, HIV Ireland and 70 other charities of the My Legacy group, are asking you to continue to support us by making or updating your will and, once family and friends have been looked after, to include a legacy gift to us. It can be large or small but it will make a real difference to our work in the future.
Mylegacy.ie was established in 2003 by a small group of Irish charities who knew at first hand the impact a legacy or bequest can have on the work of a charity. Since then, Mylegacy.ie has grown to an umbrella group of over 70 Irish charities who work together to promote the importance of making a will and to ask people to consider leaving a legacy to a favourite charity once all other important personal decisions have been made.
You can learn more about leaving a gift to charity, and find a local participating solicitor for Best Will Week online at www.mylegacy.ie.
Please support our work by supporting this year’s Best Will Week. Thank you.

HIV Training: An overview for Counsellors

Now open for bookings: this popular one-day training aims to introduce counsellors and psychotherapists to key aspects of working with clients who are living with HIV, and introduces best practice guidelines for professionals working in this area.  Places are limited so early booking is advisable.  Find out more and download a booking form.

We are hiring! CE scheme position for Accounts Admin Assistant

We are still urgently looking for someone to join the HIV Ireland Admin Team, someone with good office, admin and numerical skills.

This is a CE Position so please contact your local DSP Employment Services/Intreo Office to check your eligibility and TO APPLY for this vacancy using the job reference #CES-2007873 closing date 5th of October, 2016. If you wish, you can also send your CV to brona.cousins@hivireland.ie

Duties will include; banking on line, creating invoices, dealing with petty cash and petty cash accounts, paperwork, dealing with suppliers, general admin and reception cover.

It is a varied and demanding part-time role (19 and a half hours a week) and would suit someone organised, with good IT skills, someone who likes dealing with numbers and paperwork.

HIV Stigma Study

Would you like to participate in a study examining the impact of stigma on the lives of people living with HIV in Ireland? A new study in the Health Promotion Centre in the School of Health Sciences at NUI Galway is aiming to do just that. If you are interested, please go to: www.hivstigmastudy.ie

 

HIV Ireland Annual Report 2015

If you would like to take a look at our newly published Annual Report 2015, you can open a .pdf here

HIV Ireland Annual Report 2015

Design by Joey at Subliminal Design

Report of the Gonorrhoea Control Group for HSE-East and HSE-SouthEast

A report has been published on the work of the multidisciplinary Gonorrhoea Control Group which was convened in Dublin in December 2012.  The Group investigated the significant increase in the numbers of notifications of gonorrhoea in the eastern part of Ireland and instituted appropriate and effective control measures, resulting in a halt in the rise in notifications of gonorrhoea.  The investigation revealed two groups at most risk of gonorrhoea infection: men who have sex with men and young heterosexuals.  A multidisciplinary and partnership approach was used to alert the health system and to provide sexual health information to the groups at most risk of infection.

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A particular highlight was the use of social media in targeting messages to young people.  The #OMGsti Gonorrhoea information campaign, targeting young male and female heterosexuals aged 17 to 25 years, was developed and implemented by a partnership working group consisting of HIV Ireland, the HSE Sexual Health and Crisis Pregnancy Programme, SpunOut.ie, the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) and the HSE Health Promotion and Improvement Department.  The full report can be viewed and downloaded at http://www.lenus.ie/hse/handle/10147/592762.

 

 

Thom McGinty – The Diceman – 20th Anniversary Commemorative Posters

Thom McGinty – The Diceman –  20th Anniversary Commemorative limited edition Posters, designed by Charlie O’Neill, are available to purchase at HIV Ireland.

€10.00 (plus postage and packaging, or can be collected in our offices).

All proceeds go to HIV Ireland.

For further information email marie.hamilton@hivireland.ie or telephone Marie at at 01 873 3799.

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“Thom, you seduced Ireland. You were the living artwork of our darkest secrets and our brightest moments. You turned our guilt into showbusiness. Our hysterics into art. Our wonder into revelation. You were the first. You prepared us for diversity. You rattled our conservatism. You were our charming friend. So, 20 years on, we once again bid you thanks and we celebrate you – but we still miss you and your devilment.”

Stigma and Disclosure in Ireland

The enduring power of stigma – understanding why HIV-positive gay men don’t disclose their status

Study highlights stigma within gay communities, and amongst HIV-positive men

For full study follow this link or go to www.aidsmap.com

 

Invitation to Tender

National Survey on HIV in Ireland

HIV Ireland invites submissions of tenders to deliver this project being a National Survey on HIV in Ireland. Download more details of the specific project, required expertise, invitation to tender and tender criteria in our tendering document: HIV Ireland National HIV Survey Tendering Document – 9th October 2015

Tenders to be submitted by e-mail to niall.mulligan@hivireland.ie

by 5.00 p.m. on Monday 2nd November 2015

HIV Ireland Report- Potential impact of the Swedish model on rates of HIV/AIDS among sex workers and their access to healthcare

September 2015

Click on the link below to download HIV Ireland Report on the Potential impact of the Swedish model on rates of HIV/AIDS among sex workers and their access to healthcare

Potential impact of the Swedish model on rates of HIVAIDS among sex workers and their access to healthcare. HIV Ireland Report – September 2015