We are excited to announce that we will be hosting the national HIV prevention conference on Tuesday 18 February 2020 in central London.
It will be free to attend for all those working in HIV prevention in England. Save the date!
Registration for the conference will open in November 2019.
Please note that the abstract submission period will start in September 2019 and we encourage submissions from all our stakeholders.
During July HPE hosted two training webinars for community and health professionals working in HIV prevention in England:
Our social media pack will help you promote the summer phase of the It Starts With Me campaign on your social media channels. The summer activity launched on Wednesday 19 June 2019.
Once again we are raising awareness and promoting actions of the various ways to prevent HIV such as condoms, testing, PrEP and treatment using a creative with a summery feel to it, refreshed from last year.
The tagline for the summer activity is ‘I’m stopping HIV.’. Under the tagline, an explanation of how each of the models is stopping HIV is outlined.
The people featured in the campaign images and videos are a mixture of people living with and without HIV.
Our social media hashtag is #ImStoppingHIV
Hashtags are not case sensitive so using #imstoppinghiv would work as well – we’ve just used capitals to make it easier to read what the hashtag is about.
Images: a selection of images for use on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or any another social network.
Links: to information on the various ways of preventing HIV. There are links to interactive tools that:
Suggested posts: examples of posts for Facebook and Instagram as well as tweets for Twitter.
Share these YouTube videos via your social media channel:
Download to share via your own channels and use in clinics and waiting rooms:
Additional videos are available via both our YouTube channel (for sharing) and Vimeo (for downloads) channels featuring treatment and testing messaging.
Images for Facebook, Instagram and Twitter can be downloaded via Dropbox.
If you’re unable to access Dropbox at your place or work please contact us to request zip files of our digital assets.
Suggested tweets and posts with links to the It Starts With Me online tools can be downloaded here [DOCX]
Learn: we want people to understand the different ways to prevent HIV and why they are important.
Make a choice: we want people to choose how they reduce the chance of getting HIV by:
Educate: share the information from the campaign messages with friends, family and on social media.
Ahead of our summer campaign, HPE has launched a new resources portal featuring an easy-to-use interface for ordering campaign materials and merchandise.
Award-winning HIV prevention leaflets, posters and other promotional materials are available to all organisations in England engaged in HIV prevention. These include GP surgeries, clinics, statutory services, colleges, universities, and community organisations.
Register your new account and order your free HIV prevention resources today.
The summer phase of the It Starts With Me campaign will begin on Wednesday 19 June 2019.
The focus of this phase will be on raising awareness and promoting actions to take on the various ways to prevent HIV: testing, treatment, condoms and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
This briefing provides information about:
Campaign resources will be available to order from the HPE portal from Wednesday 5 June 2019.