World AIDS Day 2008

For World AIDS Day 2008 one of our Global Partners, the Levi Strauss Foundation, has devised an online arcade game which highlights various issues around HIV/AIDS, and acknowledges its support for the work of Positive Lives - and provides copies of the Positive Lives book as prizes to the most successful players.

Here are links to the game in 6 other languages. Please feel free to add links to the game to your website blog etc for the lead up to World AIDS Day 2008:

French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish

Our thanks go to the Levi Strauss Foundation for their continued support of our work, and their overall commitment to education and prevention concerning HIV/AIDS.

WORLD AIDS DAY 08

Monday 1st December 2008: the world-wide focus for HIV/AIDS campaigning, information and fundraising. Positive Lives is part of this vital campaign. Through photography, exhibitions and education Positive Lives continues to ensure that the human stories of individuals and communities affected by HIV/AIDS and its far-reaching implications are part of World AIDS Day.

The Positive Lives exhibition tour in The Gambia and Benin coincides with World AIDS Day

World Aids Day 2008

Liberia, The Gambia and Benin

We are pleased to announce that UNHCR is organizing a tour of the UNFPA-UNHCR/ Positive Lives exhibition in west Africa. There will be activities surrounding each exhibition.

+ Liberia (5 counties): early October to 23 October 2008

+ The Gambia and Benin: 24 November to 8 December 2008 - to coincide with World AIDS Day.



UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund

Positive Lives in Germany

During September and October 2008 the Positive Lives exhibition will be shown in Germany - a tour organised in partnership with DSW (The German Foundation for World Population).

The tour opens at the Rotes Rathaus/City Hall on the Rathausstraße in Berlin, Germany - 12 & 13 September 2008. The exhibition will be hosted by the ‘HIV im Dialog’ conference.

From 15 September to 10 October the exhibition venue will be the HIV/AIDS information, support and campaigning organisation ‘Berliner AIDS-Hilfe e.V’ at Meinekestraße 12, Berlin.

To close the tour, the Positive Lives exhibition will be shown at the Hannover Rathaus/New City Hall, Hanover - 19 to 28 October 2008. The Rathaus is on Trammplatz and within the 24 acre Maschpark. Our thanks go to project co-ordinator Catherina Hinz of DSW.

Central and Latin America

Pep Bonet’s new photographs from Honduras also mark the opening of our new work on important and long-term projects in Central and Latin America.

Working closely with ‘Ayuda en Acción’, together we will initially be running exhibitions, events and community projects in Mexico - and then gradually further afield within Central and Latin America. Securing funding for extending this work is vital – if you want to know more about supporting these and other Positive Lives projects, please visit the ‘support us’ pages on our website for full details.

Pep Bonet was born on Majorca in 1974, he studied photography in Amsterdam. He was the 2003 'Kodak Young Photographer of the Year' and in 2005 won the 'W. Eugene Smith Award for Humanitarian Photography'. For his work on the amputees' football league in Sierra Leone, Bonet won second prize in the 2007 'World Press Photo Awards: Sports'. Bonet is a founding member of the Amsterdam-based photo agency 'Noor'.

Pep Bonet has worked on in-depth, visual projects with people who are living with HIV/AIDS for over 5 years.

AIDS 2008

This summer the Positive Lives exhibition launches a vital new programme - at AIDS 2008 in Mexico City, the XVII International AIDS Conference. Positive Lives is delighted to announce that it is joining forces with one of its major partners, Ayuda en Acción, for what is the start of a major, long-term programme of events and education activities in Latin America.

Positive Lives

Positive Lives is a volunteer-led global project within 'The Terrence Higgins Trust', the leading and largest HIV and sexual health charity in the UK. Positive Lives was formed in 1993 by Steve Mayes, Lyndall Stein and other volunteers who realised that the true 'human story' behind HIV and AIDS needed to be recorded in order to humanise the growing plethora of anonymous statistics and fear.

Through commissioning internationally acclaimed photographers and working in partnership at global, regional and local levels, Positive Lives has implemented a programme of exhibitions, projects and educational activities. By forming relationships with organisations, and working to support and strengthen their campaigns and ambitions - Positive Lives seeks to highlight the realities faced by people living with HIV/AIDS; as well as their families, friends and communities.

This process aims to confront, challenge and transform the attitudes and behaviours of those who believe that ignorance, discrimination and hatred are acceptable responses to this global epidemic.

Positive Lives is still run by volunteers and relies entirely upon donations, gifts, grants and sponsorship.