Upcoming events.
Findings of the Bloomsbury Clinic Patients Survey
Earlier in 2022, the Bloomsbury Clinic invited its patients to feedback on the service we provided during the pandemic and to tell us what model of care should be adopted going forward.
Dr Stuart Flanagan, Consultant Physician HIV & BBV Medicine will update patients on the findings of our Patient Survey and future changes to the service suggested by you. Dr Flanagan led the team that created the survey and analysed its data.
This will be an opportunity to hear the feedback and ask questions.
Please join us:
Date: 14th March 2023
Time: 18:30 – 20:00
Zoom Link
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84466375802?pwd=WUhKTGRBMjhUZ0ZpdG5Ea1VqWEpldz09
Passcode: 353374
*Important Zoom Privacy Statement*
Please be aware that this is a Zoom meeting to allow you to communicate with us through sound and video, if you wish to. By joining the meeting, you will be responsible for your anonymity and confidentiality. You can change your name and switch off your camera before you join.
Work and Skills Workshop - f2f with THT
Want support to build your work skills and confidence?
Sign-up for our FREE face-to-face Work and Skills Workshop for everyone living with HIV in Camden and Islington.
The workshop is facilitated by Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) for people living with HIV who are unemployed, in unsuitable employment, are looking for a career change or thinking about volunteering. It will be an interactive, face to face workshop, designed to build work skills and confidence.
The workshop can support you with:
• Setting and achieving goals
• Understanding and demonstrating your skills
• CV writing and managing gaps in employment
• Successful application form writing
• Interview preparation
After completing the workshop you will be able to access an additional online Work and Skills programme which offers webinars to build confidence and increase motivation. You will also have access to one of THT’s volunteer Employment Mentors for six months and a wide range of e-learning modules.
Numbers are limited and places will be allocated in advance on a first come, first served basis. So please contact us today to register and avoid disappointment.
For more information or to find out how to register please complete the SIGN UP NOW form, email: coordinators@livingwellcic.com or call: 020 3137 3373
Work and Skills Workshop - f2f with THT
Want support to build your work skills and confidence?
Sign-up for our FREE face-to-face Work and Skills Workshop for everyone living with HIV in Camden and Islington.
The workshop is facilitated by Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) for people living with HIV who are unemployed, in unsuitable employment, are looking for a career change or thinking about volunteering. It will be an interactive, face to face workshop, designed to build work skills and confidence.
The workshop can support you with:
• Setting and achieving goals
• Understanding and demonstrating your skills
• CV writing and managing gaps in employment
• Successful application form writing
• Interview preparation
After completing the workshop you will be able to access an additional online Work and Skills programme which offers webinars to build confidence and increase motivation. You will also have access to one of THT’s volunteer Employment Mentors for six months and a wide range of e-learning modules.
Numbers are limited and places will be allocated in advance on a first come, first served basis. So please contact us today to register and avoid disappointment.
For more information or to find out how to register please complete the SIGN UP NOW form, or contact Joanne, candiNETWORK Coordinator, at: jo@livingwellcic.com or: 07979 694 377
Reducing Your Risk of Diabetes - Eating Positively - f2f with The Food Chain
Reducing Your Risk of Diabetes
Eating Positively is a FREE series of practical face-to-face Nutrition and Cookery classes facilitated by The Food Chain.
Sessions are free and open to everyone living with HIV in Camden and Islington and each class is led by a qualified Dietitian and a volunteer Chef.
The course aims to provide participants with a greater understanding of nutrition and how to eat a balanced varied diet, as well as practical demonstrations in preparing meals.
Eating Positively sessions aim to:
Help people better manage their own health.
Reduce people’s risk of developing further health complications.
Improve people’s overall quality of life.
Increase people’s confidence in the kitchen… and teach practical cooking skills.
Classes are suitable for everyone, whether you can already cook or have never learnt the basics. Each class includes nutritional theory, a cooking demonstration and a supervised cooking exercise, after which participants sit down to eat the food they cooked together. All participants go home with class information and recipe handouts.
Each class has a maximum of twelve participants so places must be booked and confirmed in advance. So please contact us today to register and avoid disappointment.
For more information or to find out how to register please complete the SIGN UP NOW form, or contact Joanne, candiNETWORK Coordinator, at: jo@livingwellcic.com or: 07979 694 377
Keeping Your Heart Healthy - Eating Positively - f2f with The Food Chain
Keeping Your Heart Healthy
Eating Positively is a FREE series of practical face-to-face Nutrition and Cookery classes facilitated by The Food Chain.
Sessions are free and open to everyone living with HIV in Camden and Islington and each class is led by a qualified Dietitian and a volunteer Chef.
The course aims to provide participants with a greater understanding of nutrition and how to eat a balanced varied diet, as well as practical demonstrations in preparing meals.
Eating Positively sessions aim to:
Help people better manage their own health.
Reduce people’s risk of developing further health complications.
Improve people’s overall quality of life.
Increase people’s confidence in the kitchen… and teach practical cooking skills.
Classes are suitable for everyone, whether you can already cook or have never learnt the basics. Each class includes nutritional theory, a cooking demonstration and a supervised cooking exercise, after which participants sit down to eat the food they cooked together. All participants go home with class information and recipe handouts.
Each class has a maximum of twelve participants so places must be booked and confirmed in advance. So please contact us today to register and avoid disappointment.
For more information or to find out how to register please complete the SIGN UP NOW form, or contact Joanne, candiNETWORK Coordinator, at: jo@livingwellcic.com or: 07979 694 377
Art Therapy
The Art of Therapy - Healing Through Artwork
Sign-up for our new Art Therapy programme that will be running face-to-face over six weeks starting Thursday 20 October 2022, 5.30pm - 7.30pm. The programme is FREE and will be delivered out of a lovely private venue near King’s Cross, London.
You don't need to be 'good at art' to participate and no previous art experience is needed. With abundant art materials and a relaxed atmosphere this is an opportunity for you to express yourself in a way that is creative, free and authentic. It is also tremendous fun and can be helpful in releasing stress, getting in touch with your inner artist, gaining confidence in freestyle painting and learning to be less judgemental of yourself and others.
Art Therapy is a combination of visual art and psychotherapy facilitated by an experienced Art Psychotherapist who will help you use creative processes such as painting and drawing to better express and explore your inner thoughts, feelings and conflicts.
The programme is FREE for everyone in Camden and Islington living with HIV. However, places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment and remember to wear old clothes for painting!
Art Therapy can be particularly helpful for a range of concerns or challenges including: Anxiety, Depression, Life Transitions, Grief and Loss, Critical Illness, Creative Block, Lack of Focus, Low Self-Esteem, and Difficulties with Communication
When: 20 Oct, 27 Oct, 3 Nov, 10 Nov, 17 Nov, 24 Nov
Time: 5.30pm - 7.30pm
Location: King’s Cross, London - full venue information given upon booking
Cost: Free for people living with HIV in Camden and Islington
Numbers are limited and places will be allocated in advance on a first come, first served basis. So please contact us today to register and avoid disappointment.
For more information or to find out how to register please complete the SIGN UP NOW form, or contact Joanne, candiNETWORK Coordinator, at: jo@livingwellcic.com or: 07979 694 377
Forgotten History of HIV: Educational Forum - online with Bloomsbury Network
Forgotten History of HIV - with Chris Sandford
This live event provides an introduction to the history of HIV through Chris’s personal experience.
Understanding the past helps us understand the future. It will take you on a journey from the early days when HIV was a death sentence to the opening of the first specialist ward by Princess Diana; from the advent of effective medication in the 90s to the present day—when HIV is considered a manageable condition.
Why is there still so much stigma around HIV?
What is the psychological impact of an HIV diagnosis?
The future is full of hope. What next?
There will be a Q & A at the end of the presentation.
Chris Sandford has been living with HIV for over 40 years. He is a Governor of Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust, teaches in colleges and universities, is a Trustee of two HIV charities, and is Education Director of the National HIV Story Trust.
The National HIV Story Trust is dedicated to filming the stories of people who survived the HIV pandemic of the 80s and 90s—and their doctors, nurses, families, and political allies.
These interviews will be a voice for those who didn’t survive, a chance to honour those who did, and an education for those who are alive today because of this generational struggle.
The interviews are available at the London Metropolitan Archives.
Event date: October 18, 2022
Event time: 18:30 – 20:00
Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/88984616512
For more information about future Bloomsbury Network events sign-up for their Newsletter at: bloomsburynetwork.co.uk
Beyond Diagnosis Course - f2f with Bloomsbury Network
Move Beyond HIV
The Beyond Diagnosis Course (BDC) is a three-day face-to-face closed course for anyone living with HIV that wants to come to better terms with their condition, whether they were diagnosed many years ago or just last month.
The BDC is FREE for everyone living with HIV and is led by volunteers who are themselves living with HIV and areas covered include: disclosure; medication, side effects, drug interactions/resistance and managing adherence.
The BDC is held in-person at the Mortimer Market Centre and is co-facilitated between the Bloomsbury Network and the Peer Support Team at the Bloomsbury Clinic but is is open to anyone independently of where they have their care.
Sessions are delivered across three Saturdays, starting at 10.30am and finishing at 4.00pm each week. Participants need to attend all three sessions that will take place on 15, 22 and 29 October 2022.
Across three Saturday sessions, participants explore:
Dealing with your diagnosis
Learning about undetectability
Medication Q&A
Handling stigma, disclosure and relationships
Equality and the law
Advice on wellbeing
The BDC is a closed group - meaning that only those people living with HIV who have Registered for a place can attend. Full venue details are shared once your place has been booked.
For more information or to find out how to register please complete the SIGN UP NOW form, or contact Joanne, candiNETWORK Coordinator, at: jo@livingwellcic.com or: 07979 694 377
Eating Well on a Budget - Eating Positively - f2f with The Food Chain
Eating Well on a Budget
Eating Positively is a FREE series of practical face-to-face Nutrition and Cookery classes facilitated by The Food Chain.
Sessions are free and open to everyone living with HIV in Camden and Islington and each class is led by a qualified Dietitian and a volunteer Chef.
The course aims to provide participants with a greater understanding of nutrition and how to eat a balanced varied diet, as well as practical demonstrations in preparing meals.
Eating Positively sessions aim to:
Help people better manage their own health.
Reduce people’s risk of developing further health complications.
Improve people’s overall quality of life.
Increase people’s confidence in the kitchen… and teach practical cooking skills.
Classes are suitable for everyone, whether you can already cook or have never learnt the basics. Each class includes nutritional theory, a cooking demonstration and a supervised cooking exercise, after which participants sit down to eat the food they cooked together. All participants go home with class information and recipe handouts.
Each class has a maximum of twelve participants so places must be booked and confirmed in advance by completing the Registration form at: eatingpositivelyoct22.eventbrite.co.uk
If you have any questions or would like to discuss or any of our services further they please email Joanne, the candiNETWORK Coordinator at: jo@livingwellcic.com
Work and Skills Workshop - f2f with THT
Want support to build your work skills and confidence?
Sign-up for our FREE face-to-face Work and Skills Workshop for everyone living with HIV in Camden and Islington.
The workshop is facilitated by Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) for people living with HIV who are unemployed, in unsuitable employment, are looking for a career change or thinking about volunteering. It will be an interactive, face to face workshop, designed to build work skills and confidence.
The workshop can support you with:
• Setting and achieving goals
• Understanding and demonstrating your skills
• CV writing and managing gaps in employment
• Successful application form writing
• Interview preparation
After completing the workshop you will be able to access an additional online Work and Skills programme which offers webinars to build confidence and increase motivation. You will also have access to one of THT’s volunteer Employment Mentors for six months and a wide range of e-learning modules.
Numbers are limited and places will be allocated in advance on a first come, first served basis. So please Register now to avoid disappointment: workandskills.eventbrite.co.uk
If you have any questions or would like to discuss or any of our services further they please email Joanne, the candiNETWORK Coordinator at: jo@livingwellcic.com
Sex, Drugs and HIV: Educational Forum - online with Bloomsbury Network
Sex, Drugs and HIV - with special guest Dr Indrajit Ghosh
The Bloomsbury Clinic Peer Support Team in collaboration with Nick Adams and Hendrik de Vries, volunteers from the Club Drug Clinic, have devised a series of events exploring the journeys of people living with HIV and struggling with addiction, focusing on Chemsex and recovery.
Over a cuppa, Nick and Hendrik will chat with their guests about their personal journeys of recovery and the work they do supporting others struggling with addiction. They would like to showcase the support available and get up close and personal to some of the health professionals who inspired and continue to inspire Nick and Hendrik in their on-going journeys of recovery.
Sex, Drugs and HIV will kick off their series with first guest Dr Indrajit Ghosh, a Specialty Doctor in GUM/HIV/Hepatitis at Central and North West London Foundation Trust, working at the Bloomsbury Clinic, Mortimer Market Centre and providing outreach healthcare to Camden’s homeless community. Dr Ghosh will talk about his personal and professional experience supporting people struggling with addiction, social and health inequalities.
Nick Adams arrived in London at the age of 17 after a childhood of bullying and sexual abuse. These deep-seated traumas, along with a lack of formal education, left him with few options. He soon discovered the dark underworld of drugs, sex and prostitution which offered him, for the first time in his life, a sense of belonging and community. What followed was 30 years of drug abuse, from ecstasy and acid in the 90’s to Crystal meth and G in the 2000’s. Nick is now over 2 years clean and sober, lives a healthy lifestyle and volunteers for HIV and substance abuse charities and the NHS, namely CNWL’s Club Drug Clinic.
Hendrik de Vries has been living with HIV since 2006. Following an emotionally abusive relationship he slipped into drug use to try to find “intimacy”. His diagnosis increased his recreational drug use during sex, which enabled him to avoid thinking about HIV. His drug use escalated after he started taking treatment. He believes that he was self-medicating to mitigate the side effects of medication, but acknowledges that his drug use spiralled out of control.
Event title: Sex, Drugs and HIV
Event date: 29 September 2022
Event time: 18:30 – 20:00
Zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/j/82312864983?pwd=OE4wc21KYmQrdmduTkdwRmExekRSdz09
For more information about future Bloomsbury Network events sign-up for their Newsletter at: bloomsburynetwork.co.uk
Women’s Health Fertility: Educational Forum - online with Bloomsbury Network
Women’s Health Fertility
Considering fertility treatment? Or worried that your medication and HIV might affect your fertility?
To put your mind to rest, we invited Professor Yvonne Gilleece, a Honorary Clinical Professor and Consultant in HIV Medicine & Sexual Health at Brighton & Sussex Medical School and University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust to talk to us about HIV and fertility.
Professor Yvonne Gilleece trained in Dublin and London and is Honorary Clinical Professor and Consultant in HIV Medicine & Sexual Health at Brighton & Sussex Medical School and University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust. She is a national and international leader on HIV in Women and is mediate past Chair of the BHIVA Pregnancy Guidelines, Chair of WAVE, Chair of SWIFT, promoting research in women living with HIV. She is currently the Honorary Secretary of BHIVA. She also specialises in HIV and Bone and HIV and Hepatitis Co-infection & Liver Dysfunction.
Event date: Sep 22, 2022
Event time: 18:30 – 20:00
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87535109000?pwd=UWliWEpNaU1iTElZZkZCcUZGcG5Jdz09
Passcode: 997099
For more information about future Bloomsbury Network events sign-up for their Newsletter at: bloomsburynetwork.co.uk
Bloomsbury Summer Picnic: Social Event - f2f with Bloomsbury Network
Bloomsbury Summer Picnic
The Bloomsbury Network Team invite members and friends to join us for our late Summer picnic.
Some food and drink will be provided though please feel free to bring your own favourite nibbles and drinks! Members of the BN Committee and the MM Clinic and Peer Support workers will make an appearance.
The picnic will take place on 10th Sept 13:30 - 17:00
Queen Mary’s Rose Gardens, The Regent's Park, Chester Road, London, NW1 4NR .
Event date: Sept 10, 2022
Event time: 13:30 – 17:00
Location: Queen Mary’s Rose Gardens, The Regent's Park, Chester Road, London, NW1 4NR .
For more information about future Bloomsbury Network events sign-up for their Newsletter at: bloomsburynetwork.co.uk
Introduction to Nutrition - Eating Positively - f2f with The Food Chain
Introduction to Nutrition
Eating Positively is a FREE series of practical face-to-face Nutrition and Cookery classes facilitated by The Food Chain.
Sessions are free and open to everyone living with HIV in Camden and Islington and each class is led by a qualified Dietitian and a volunteer Chef.
The course aims to provide participants with a greater understanding of nutrition and how to eat a balanced varied diet, as well as practical demonstrations in preparing meals.
Eating Positively sessions aim to:
Help people better manage their own health.
Reduce people’s risk of developing further health complications.
Improve people’s overall quality of life.
Increase people’s confidence in the kitchen… and teach practical cooking skills.
Classes are suitable for everyone, whether you can already cook or have never learnt the basics. Each class includes nutritional theory, a cooking demonstration and a supervised cooking exercise, after which participants sit down to eat the food they cooked together. All participants go home with class information and recipe handouts.
Each class has a maximum of twelve participants so places must be booked and confirmed in advance by completing the Registration form at:
If you have any questions or would like to discuss or any of our services further they please email Joanne, the candiNETWORK Coordinator at: jo@livingwellcic.com
Work and Skills Workshop - f2f with THT
Want support to build your work skills and confidence?
Terrence Higgins Trust’s in-person Work and Skills Workshop is free for everyone living with HIV in Camden and Islington.
The workshop can support you with:
• Setting and achieving goals
• Understanding and demonstrating your skills
• CV writing and managing gaps in employment
• Successful application form writing
• Interview preparation
To discuss further and book a place on the next workshop contact the candiNETWORK Coordinator at: jo@livingwellcic.com
Understanding and exploring sexual wellbeing - online with Bloomsbury Network
Struggling with intimacy? Unable to relax and enjoy sex because of your diagnosis?
Join the Bloomsbury Network and the Mortimer Market Clinic Peer Support Team for WOMEN’S WISDOM TO WELLBEING - Understanding and exploring sexual wellbeing. An online Webinar on 18 Aug 2022 at 18:30 - 20.00.
Session 4 will focus on understanding and exploring sexual well-being through personal and wider societal perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards sex and developing self-empowered approaches towards sexual wellbeing.
The aim of the Women’s Wisdom and Wellbeing workshops is to understand and promote mental well-being and identify, explore and develop self-help approaches towards holistic wellbeing.
Life Coach and Trainer Mina Kakaiya is a South Asian woman living with HIV, an activist, speaker, author, and volunteer peer mentor. Amongst other qualifications, she holds a degree in Neuroscience and a Masters in CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). Mina has been involved in a number of HIV campaigns and teaches Emotional Resilience, Mindfulness, Peer Support, and Sexual Wellbeing workshops.
Only those who identify as women and live with HIV can participate in these workshops. In order to receive a link for the workshop, please contact the Peer Support Team on 020 3317 5177 or cnwl.MMC-HIV-PeerSupport@nhs.net
* Important Zoom Privacy Statement *
This event will be conducted as a regular Zoom meeting in order for you to interact with the facilitator(s) and the other participants. The Zoom link will be emailed to you individually. Therefore, you need to register with us. Once you receive the Zoom link, please don’t share it with others in order to maintain everyone’s confidentiality.
*Event date: Aug 18, 2022
*Event time: 18:30 – 20:00
*Zoom link:* Please email to register cnwl.MMC-HIV-PeerSupport@nhs.net
Mental Fitness Wellbeing Workshop - online with Positively UK
Living Well facilitates a Mental Fitness Wellbeing Workshop to support participants of a regular Positively UK Mixed Social group.
The workshop will be led by Ana Paula Nacif, an experienced wellbeing coach. Ana's coaching style is insightful, challenging, intuitive, encouraging, direct and energetic. By creating an atmosphere of trust, she is able to challenge comfort zones and tap into the resourcefulness of her clients with clarity.
This closed group is open to all Positively UK Members.
For further information please contact the candiNETWORK Coordinator at: jo@livingwellcic.com
Beyond Diagnosis Course - f2f with Bloomsbury Network
The Bloomsbury Network’s Beyond Diagnosis Course (BDC) is a three-day closed course for anyone living with HIV that wants to come to better terms with their condition, whether they were diagnosed many years ago or just last month. The Course is led by volunteers who are themselves living with HIV and areas covered include: disclosure; medication, side effects, drug interactions/resistance and managing adherence.
The Course will be held in-person at a central London venue across three Saturdays. Sessions will start at 10:30 and finish at 15.30 each day. Participants need to attend all three sessions.
Across three Saturday sessions, participants explore:
Dealing with your diagnosis
Learning about undetectability
Medication Q&A
Handling stigma, disclosure and relationships
Equality and the law
Advice on wellbeing
The BDC is a closed group - meaning that only registered Bloomsbury Network Members living with HIV can attend.
For further information please contact the candiNETWORK Coordinator at: jo@livingwellcic.com
New Camden and Islington HIV Network launch - online with Bloomsbury Network
Join the Bloomsbury Network and Mortimer Market Peer Support Team for the launch of our new Camden and Islington HIV Network (candiNETWORK) on 7th July 2022 at 18:30 online.
Everyone living in Camden and Islington now has access to a new Network offering a wide range of mental health, emotional wellbeing, peer support, nutrition, work and benefits, physical activity and educational support services.
candiNETWORK is funded by Camden and Islington councils and delivered in collaboration by Living Well, Positively UK, the Bloomsbury Network, Central YMCA, The Food Chain and Terrence Higgins Trust.
candiNETWORK services include: Counselling, Life Coaching, Positive Health, Outdoor Activities, Wellbeing Workshops, Art Therapy, Benefits and Welfare Support, Work and Skills Training, Community Events, Beyond Diagnosis Course, Educational Forums, Participatory Workshops, Eating Positively, Peer Support and Peer Mentor Training.
Services are available face to face and at venues across Camden and Islington, and many can also be accessed online or over the telephone.
This online event is open to all Bloomsbury Network Members.
To gain access to this and future Bloomsbury Network events sign-up for their Network Newsletter at: bloomsburynetwork.co.uk
candiNETWORK Launch - f2f with Bloomsbury Network
We’re hosting a community event, and we’d love to see you there. Join service users and professionals for the launch of our new Camden and Islington HIV Network (candiNETWORK) on 30 June 2022, 17:45 - 19:30. Register now: candinetwork.eventbrite.co.uk
Everyone living in Camden and Islington now has access to a new Network offering a wide range of mental health, emotional wellbeing, peer support, nutrition, work and benefits, physical activity and educational support services.
candiNETWORK is funded by Camden and Islington councils and delivered in collaboration by Living Well, Positively UK, the Bloomsbury Network, Central YMCA, The Food Chain and Terrence Higgins Trust.
candiNETWORK services include: Counselling, Life Coaching, Positive Health, Outdoor Activities, Wellbeing Workshops, Art Therapy, Benefits and Welfare Support, Work and Skills Training, Community Events, Beyond Diagnosis Course, Educational Forums, Participatory Workshops, Eating Positively, Peer Support and Peer Mentor Training.
Services are available face to face at venues across Camden and Islington, and many can also be accessed online or over the telephone.
We invite you to join us at our network Launch Event on 30 June from 17.45 – 19.30 at Terrence Higgins Trust, Caledonian Road to find out more about the new Network and hear how past participants have benefited from the services available.
Drinks and food will be available and we'll also be announcing the creation of a new Network Co-Production Group which will give you the opportunity to play a more active role in the future evaluation and development of services in Camden and Islington.
Spaces at the Launch Event are limited so please register now if you wish to attend at: candinetwork.eventbrite.co.uk
We hope you’re able to join us!
Participatory Forum: Monkeypox - online with Bloomsbury Network
The Bloomsbury Network and Mortimer Market Peer Support Team invite you to their online Participatory Forum on Monkeypox.
Laura Waters is a Consultant Physician at the Mortimer Market Clinic, HIV Lead for Central and North West London NHS Trust, and Chair of the British HIV Association.
Laura will be providing updates on:
What is monkeypox?
What are the symptoms of monkeypox?
Am I at greater risk if I’m HIV positive?
What should I do if I think I have monkeypox?
There will also be an opportunity to ask Laura questions.
This online event is open for all Bloomsbury Network Members, regardless of HIV status or gender identity.
To gain access to this and future Bloomsbury Network events sign-up for their Network Newsletter at: bloomsburynetwork.co.uk
In Conversation with Mina Kakaiya - online with Bloomsbury Network
The Mortimer Market Peer Support team and the Bloomsbury Network invite you to the 7th of these interviews with Mina Kakaiya. Join them to discover more about Mina’s unique journey and her work supporting other women living with HIV.
Mina Kakaiya is a South Asian woman living with HIV and an activist and volunteer peer mentor. She has been involved in a number of HIV campaigns and teaches Emotional Resilience, Mindfulness, Peer Support, and Sexual Wellbeing workshops and talks. Mina has also been featured on Radio, BBC Asian Network, BBC Women’s Hour and Podcasts. She is an advisory board member of SAHAR (South Asian HIV Advisory Resource) which aims to provide ongoing advice guidance and/or support to organisations, charities, and community interests delivering services to South Asian people living with HIV or affected by HIV in the UK.
Mina is also the NW London Community Representative for the London HIV Clinical Forum with the overarching aim to review HIV care in London and provide clinical expertise and leadership on HIV to NHS England (London). She is dedicated to helping people harness their inner wellbeing towards personal transformational change to building resilience and leading fulfilling lives with a greater sense of purpose and passion.
This online event is open to Bloomsbury Network Members.
To gain access to this and future Bloomsbury Network events sign-up for their Network Newsletter at: bloomsburynetwork.co.uk