Complementary to the support groups, we also offer individual support. People living with HIV can contact our project for individual culturally sensitive counseling and support. We also organize peer to peer support, for patients who want to share experiences with others who find themselves in the same situation, but prefer a one-to-one conversation. Sharing their stories and experiences can be helpful and comforting, especially when shared with a person who knows what living with HIV means, and who comes from the same cultural background. Topics vary, but often touch for instance on HIV-related stigma or HIV disclosure, and migration-related concerns.
Would you like to learn more about possible types of support, or are you considering to become involved as a peer?
Who are we? The Project supports HIV prevention and sexual health promotion with Sub-Saharan African Migrants (SAM) in Flanders. Together with the Sub-Saharan African communities and their leaders we develop, implement and evaluate targeted HIV prevention campaigns. We also support sub-Saharan African people living with HIV. Profile Volunteers are an important resource for our prevention …
Stigma is a pervasive problem that creates more fear and anger against people instead of focusing on the illness behind it. Stigma has its basis in discrimination against a group of people, a place or a nation. During this pandemic, people tend to look for a culprit for the situation out of fear of illness …
Are COVID-19 vaccines safe for people living with HIV?
The COVID-19 vaccines offered in Europe today have been approved by regulators including the European Medicines Agency. The vaccines are tested for safety in humans during development and are therefore only approved if safety is proven in most people, including those living with HIV. Before vaccines are licensed for scale-up, national regulatory authorities assess the …
Safe COVID-19 vaccines for all ~ Message from the EU
Vaccination against COVID-19 started on 27 December 2020 across the European Union, in a moment of unity. A safe and effective vaccine is our lasting way out of the pandemic. The European Commission has been working tirelessly to secure doses of vaccines, and approved three COVID-19 vaccines, which were assessed as being safe and effective. …
The Hiv-Sam team wishes you a healthy and prosperous 2021, may it become a blooming period for both professional and private life and may we soon see all HIV and Corona problems come to an end. Christiana, Ddungu, Lazare, Monique
http://www.hivsam.be/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/WADEng-result.pdf World AIDS Day 1st December 20202020 has been a challenging year, whereby COVID_19 restrictions made us innovate in order to keep track of our core mission: reaching out to communities of Sub-Saharan origin and working together for sexual health of all.1st December will be World Aids Day (WAD), the day that we come together …
