St Peters House Project

So grateful to the organisers of Pride in Surrey and everyone who came along to Winter Pride in Sunday for your support. Making a difference to people living with HIV.

From money raised at Winter Pride Surrey and our World AIDS Day vigil we are delighted to announce that we will be donating £260.00 to METRO Charity formally St Peters House Project in Reigate.

Founded in 1987 St Peters House Project provides services for people living and affected by HIV within Surrey.

We're delighted to announce that we are merging with METRO Charity! We will sit as a distinct part of the METRO family of services within METRO's HIV Domain, continuing to provide support to people living with HIV in Surrey and West Suss*x:

St Peter's House Project and METRO Merge - St Peters House Project On Tuesday evening St Peter's House Project's Chair, Heather Loxely, and METRO Charity's Chair, Gwen Bryan, signed an agreement that marks the culmination of a robust process that sees our two charities merge.

If you're planning to stock up on some goodies before the weekend, please pop down to

in , we're one of their green token charities this month!

It's S*xual Health Week this week, and to mark it we're delighted to announce that thanks to funding from
the National Lottery's Community Fund, we are now offering STI testing, free condoms & l**e, info & support in Surrey. Get yourself tested! Visit

Testing - St Peters House Project We offer free and confidential HIV and syphilis insti-testing and also can provide chlamydia and gonorrhoea tests and support with s*xual health matters. We have a confidential, comfortable room where we meet with you. We can also come to your venue and do HIV testing, as long as there is a confiden...

LGBT+ Domestic Abuse Survey Please take a few minutes to take our survey.

Last year there was a 5% increase in new STI cases, with gonorrhoea seeing the highest increase at 26%.

Regular testing and safe s*x practices are absolutely crucial:

S*x diseases on the rise in England Cases of s*xually transmitted infections, such as gonorrhoea, are going up.

What works against self-stigma? First systematic review aims to find out A systematic review of whether different interventions helped to overcome self-stigma in people in African and Asian countries who are living with or at risk of HIV has found that most interventions worked. The ones that worked best were, in the main, programmes that provided antiretroviral therapy....

Lovely to be greeted by spring flowers planted by our peer support group when we come in in the morning!

A public enquiry into contaminated blood products infected with HIV and heptatis viruses given to people in the 1980s and 90s has opened. The enquiry is hearing from people whose lives have been devastated not just by these illnesses but, more than anything, by the stigma attached to them. Their stories are heartbreaking: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-48104413

By the mid-1980s, the products started to be heat-treated to kill the viruses and screening of blood products began in 1991. By the late 1990s, synthetic treatments for haemophilia became available, removing the infection risk.

Lives have been ruined - contaminated blood victims Those infected speak about their struggles as the public inquiry into the scandal begins.

Watch Sadiq talk about how effective HIV treatment means he can't pass the virus on - "I don't think about my HIV that much anymore..."

SADIQ

Great article by Philiip Baldwin about the value of peer support -worth a read:

The availability of peer support is vital for people living with HIV Positive East's Advice Service is tailored to an individual's needs, identifying their challenges and putting together a specific support plan, covering any issue they present when they are assessed.

Demonstrating that you can live with HIV and not pass it on...

World first as HIV patient donates kidney In a breakthrough, US doctors successfully transplant a kidney from one HIV-positive patient to another