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In Part 2 of HIV and Travel, Sarah and Jess take a closer look at a couple of wonderful organisations offering HIV support and advocacy, in countries that have HIV travel restrictions.

Sources

https://www.lhaksam.org.bt/

HOME | Brunei AIDS Council Official Website (bdaidscouncil.org)

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The sun is out and people are jetting off on their summer holidays, so in the first of this two-parter, Sarah and Jess take a whistle stop tour around the globe to look at what restrictions there are, in different countries, for people planning to visit.

Sources

UNAIDS and UNDP call on 48* countries and territories to remove all HIV-related travel restrictions | UNAIDS

Travel restrictions for people with HIV | aidsmap

HIVTravel - Home

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Continuing on our sport theme, we take a look at the Gay Games, the biggest LGBT+ sports and culture event in the world, and more importantly we look at it's founder, Tom Waddell. Sarah and Jess also try and flex their language skills with some very poor French, in honor of the Paris Olympics!

Sources

Tom Waddell - Wikipedia

Gay Games - Wikipedia

Acrobats on the Empire State Building in 1935 (youtube.com)

Gay Games

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This week Sarah and Jess are joined by a name that many of you working within the HIV sector in the UK will likely know. A change maker for 8 years at the Terrence Higgins Trust, he has now taken a new role at George House Trust as HIV Advice, Support and Information Services Manager. This week, we're joined by the awesome Alex Sparrowhawk!

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This week Sarah and Jess are joined by the phenomenal Dr Kate Lister, author of a Curious History of Sex, columnist, and host of Betwixt the Sheets! We talk HIV history, syphilis making your nose fall off and stolen testicles! This one is a wild ride!

Dr Kate Lister – Historian | Writer | Podcaster

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Arthur Ashe was the first African American to win the men's singles titles at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, and the first African American man to be ranked No. 1 in the world. He was also HIV positive. Join Sarah and Jess to learn about this legendary sportsman who became a fierce HIV activist, even delivering a speech at the United Nations.

Sources

How tennis legend Arthur Ashe became one of the most vocal HIV/AIDS activists | CNN

Tennis great Arthur Ashe dies of AIDS | February 6, 1993 | HISTORY

How Arthur Ashe Transformed Tennis—and Athlete Activism | HISTORY

Arthur Ashe - Wikipedia

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This week we speak with Youtuber, playwriter, advocate, activist, ambassador and the person with the most dulcet tones in the sector - Stephen Hart! We chat about everything from the highly anticipated return of his show Shadowed Dreamer to his Britain's Got Talent Performance!

Useful Info

Shadowed Dreamer Trailer - Shadowed Dreamer 2024 Trailer - Hart Talks (youtube.com)

Hart Talks - trailer (youtube.com)

Joyful Noise on Britain's Got Talent - Words That Work | Communicate Clearly With Grammarly (youtube.com)

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This week's guest was diagnosed with HIV in 1991,when she was at University. Emma Cole has now been living with HIV for 33 years. Since her diagnosis Emma has achieved some incredible things, including giving over 2,000 talks about HIV and running the London Marathon! Sarah and Jess speak with Emma about being a long term survivor.

Useful info

Positive Voice - providing HIV Education since 1991 (positivevoice-emmacole.co.uk)

The POPPY (Pharmacokinetic and clinical Observations in PeoPle over fiftY) Study | Institute for Global Health - UCL – University College London

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This week is all about sex, sex, sex! We are delighted to have the brilliant Topher Taylor back on the podcast, who is Ann Summers Pleasure Positivity Project Editor for April! We ask him some questions around sex and pleasure that were put to him by the service users of TVPS.

Please note, this episode contains explicit language and conversations of a sexual nature

Useful info

Hot Octopuss PULSE SOLO ESSENTIAL Vibrating Male Masturbator - Lovehoney UK

Pleasure Positivity Project (@pleasurepositivityproject) • Instagram photos and videos

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This week we take a look at the life of Tommy 'The Duke' Morrison who gave up his boxing career when he tested HIV positive and then made a comeback when he subsequently tested negative for HIV. So join Sarah The Windmill' Macadam and Jessica 'The Kraken' Harding for this unexpected and fascinating episode!

Sources

Tommy Morrison - Wikipedia

Boxing: HIV Infection: 1 Mar 2024: Hansard Written Answers - TheyWorkForYou

USA TODAY

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