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Positive Place (provides services at Deptford, and Thornton Heath) From their website: "The Positive Place exists to respond to the specific needs of all people whose lives are affected by HIV and AIDS.  We are a registered charity and part of the South London HIV Partnership.  If you live in South London and your life has been affected by HIV, we offer a range of support services designed to bring positive people together to share experiences, develop new skills and improve existing ones, and live well with HIV."

Positively Women

African HIV Policy Network

MidWeek (Independent gay men's peer support group)

Strength In Numbers (a gay men's group with an international flavour)

Positively Healthy (a gay men's organisation providing peer support and information on alternative therapies)

Str8Talk (aimed at heterosexuals but mostly those not catered for in other groups)

Like everyone else we have to include a health warning. The contents at these links are outside our control and therefore we are not in a position to guarantee their content. The accuracy of each is the responsibility of the publisher concerned.

Sources of Information and advice:

National Citizens Advice Guide (an extensive library of useful information on welfare, pensions, housing issues etc.)

Shelter ( housing related information including Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit etc.)

Aidsmap (nam) another magazine with information in a rather clinical format.

Medscape - hiv information on hiv developments, treatments, research etc. American site aimed more at professionals but way ahead of many other sources. Option to receive a weekly digest of relevant stuff!

Reuter's Health News read health news from this leading news agency.

Positive Nation

Britain's leading independent magazine for people with HIV and/or AIDs.

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Political:

Conservative Party Green Paper on Volunteering

As mentioned on our News page. The actual Green Paper can be accessed on this Conservative Party page by clicking on the title under "Related Files".

House of Commons Home Affairs Committee

Read here about some very alarming features of modern day Britain... Including a report on (click):

Parliamentary and Health Ombudsman

Needs no introduction!

Principles of Good Administration

Here the ombudsman sets out how public administrators should behave. They set out how they would interpret, the sometimes imprecise, rules.

Consumer Credit Counselling Service Provides advice on dealing with debt. No charge!

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