Are you working with community health workers? Are you looking for new ways to support and understand their ongoing learning? Then look no further than Boost.
Boost is a mobile phone app and website designed and developed in collaboration with community health workers and peer educators in Southern Africa. Check out our new Boost page for everything you need to know!
This World AIDS Day hear from three community health workers in southern Africa as they share their experiences of the job and the challenges they face in their work.
Are you looking for resources to use and share this World AIDS Day? Then look no further. Help us spread the facts about HIV with our HIV Basics video series.
Have you seen our new episode of Talking HIV? Alex Liu and Alex Garner discuss the challenges of asking for what you want in bed - but why it's so important for having good sex.
Check out our new gay health video!
Everyone should feel able to have pleasurable and intimate sex in the way they want. But let’s be honest, talking about your sexual desires may feel like something that’s hard to do. In our new video, we give you some practical tips on how to ask for what you want in bed.
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Have you heard about our new community healthworker project Boost? Boost is a digital information hub, which will provide accessible and engaging HIV and sexual health content for community healthworkers in Southern Africa. Launching in January 2020!
If you or the organisation you work for would like to find out more, then sign up to our Boost email list for everything you need to know
We've recently updated our HIV timeline with the latest events from 2018 and 2019. Check it out!
Did you know you can now support our work via Thinking of You?
Thinking of You is a mobile app that helps you to let people know that you’re thinking of them, by sending them a ‘thought’ with an optional donation to your chosen charity. Brighten someone’s day while supporting a good cause, click here to download the app.
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We're happy to announce that we've teamed up with DrugStars! Their innovative new app is helping thousands of people to remember to take their medication, while raising money for charity.
The app allows you to track your meds and every time you take them you’ll earn stars that you can then donate to support our work. Download the app today and start collecting your stars!
Check out the latest in our HIV explainer series!
There are lots of HIV myths around, but the facts of how you can get HIV, and how you can protect yourself, are very simple. Our HIV explainer video gives you five facts to fight the myths.
Our latest Annual Report for 2018-19 is now out! Why not download a copy and find out what we've been getting up to over the last year.
You can now watch the Young Voices series on our IGTV channel.
Stay tuned for more video updates on Instagram!
We've recently updated our infographic hub with the latest HIV stats from around the world - check it out!
In June we started work on an exciting new pilot project in partnership with the Praekelt Foundation - developing virtual support groups on WhatsApp for young people living with HIV.
The project will further the understanding of how technology can help improve adherence to treatment and support overall health and wellbeing. More on this soon!
Check out the latest in our HIV explainer series! In this video, we look at what’s involved in HIV testing.
Testing for HIV is quick, easy and confidential, and it’s the only way to know for sure if you have HIV.
We recently undertook an initial analysis of the comments on our Young Voices campaign on social media (Facebook and Instagram).
59% of people participating in online discussions showed deeper engagement with the issues covered in the animations, by, for example, expressing that they have gained knowledge; changed their perspective; or related the issue back to their own experience.
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