2nd National Conference for PLWHIV
The National Conference for PLWHIV returns this year to the Academy Plaza Hotel on January 20th 2018. Topics for this conference were chosen by people living with HIV as a result of feedback given from participants attending our first national conference in February 2016. A further focus group was held to determine final topics and speakers. There will be presentations on HIV and Ageing, Disclosure, Research on HIV and Stigma,...
Living with HIV and interested in understanding more about the virus?
[Rescheduled] PLEASE NOTE: Lectures 2 and 3 have been rescheduled for January 2017 due to unforeseen circumstances. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. HIV Ireland and Positive Now present a short series on HIV and Immunology specifically for people living with HIV. Presenter: Eoin Mac Réamoinn MSc – Postgraduate Researcher, TCD and Fulbright Scholar Cost: Free Where: HIV Ireland, 70 Eccles Street, Dublin 7 ...
Living with HIV and happy to share your story?
Southpaw Pictures are in development with RTE2 to make a once-off 52-minute documentary about HIV in Ireland. RTE particularly want to hear about the real experiences of people living with HIV, issues and challenges and stigma they may have encountered at different points. NB: each interviewee has the option to remain totally anonymous and be represented on camera using an actor and actor’s voice, so full confidentiality is...
HIV cure: what lies beneath? | Dr Virginie Gautier | TEDxUCD
Published on 11 Dec 2015 HIV infects T-cells, ‘high-jacking’ their cellular machinery and turning them into virus-producing ‘factories’. A small proportion of these cells can create a persisting pool of latently infected cells, which constitute the HIV latent reservoir. There, the virus remains dormant, silent and hidden from patients’ immune defences and from otherwise effective anti-retroviral treatments. In her TEDxUCD 2015 talk...
Jimmy Goulding – Irish Independent Interview
Our own Jimmy Goulding talks to the Irish Independent on World AIDS Day about how he’s still amazed at how little people know about HIV & AIDS. Click on the buttons at the bottom of the article to zoom and turn pages....
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