HIV Disclosure Guide launch + workshop

Living Positive Victoria and the HIV/AIDS Legal Centre (HALC) invite you to take part in the re-launch of the updated and revised HIV Disclosure Guide, plus a workshop exploring it in detail and answering your questions, hosted by Hope Street Radio.

Originally launched in 2020, this comprehensive guide examines the considerations of disclosing your status in various scenarios such as workplaces, relationships, travel and migration. This new edition “Disclosing your HIV Status: Your Rights and Responsibilities in Victoria” builds on this and ensures that the information is up-to-date and relevant for people living with HIV today. There will also be a launch of a new and updated ‘pocket guide’ for easy access of the key information right at your fingertips!

Excerpt from the guide:

Disclosure is one of the main areas where the law affects the lives of people living with HIV. Whether you are thinking about disclosing your status or someone is asking you to, this guide will help you to understand the legal requirements, non-legal considerations, and your rights to privacy and non-discrimination when disclosing. The guide may also help people such as counsellors and social workers who offer support services to people living with HIV.

The guide includes:

• information about your right to privacy and freedom from discrimination
• how to protect these rights.

About the event:

Hear from HALC’s Strategic Policy Lawyer, Bethany Rodgers, about the legal considerations at play when deciding who to disclose your status to (or not disclose), and your rights if your privacy is violated or you experience discrimination. This will be facilitated in a workshop style setting with an opportunity to ask questions at the end.

If you have a question you’d like to ask at the event, you can submit it (anonymously if you choose) using this form and the speakers will do their best to answer it. There will also be an opportunity to answer questions from the audience on the night.

Light refreshments will be provided.

How to find us:

This event is taking place at Hope Street Radio, which is within the Collingwood Yards precinct.
It’s on the ground level of the Perry Street Building.

This event is part of a week long exhibition, You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) presented by LPV, the National Association of People with HIV Australia (NAPWHA) and ViiV Healthcare.

Other events coinciding with the exhibit:

🎤 Friday 6 February 6PM – 8PM
Storytelling Evening / Exhibition Launch

An intimate evening of readings from contributors to Let Them Know: Why and How to Share Your HIV Story, creating space for shared listening, connection, and community.

➡️ Please register for this event here

🗣️Sunday 8 February 10:30AM – 12PM
Panel Discussion: HIV Campaigns, Memory, and Visibility
Held during the VicPride Street Party as part of Midsumma Festival, this panel brings together people from our communities to reflect on the cultural, political, and community histories of HIV campaigns.

➡️ Please register for this event here

Everyone is welcome. These events are open to everyone regardless of HIV status.
Please feel free to invite the people who matter to you and make a day of it together.

You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) will be FREE and open to the public from 9:00am to 5:00pm daily, from 6–12 February, and can be visited at any point throughout the day.

Living Positive Victoria takes your privacy very seriously and will not disclose your private information to any other people or organisations without your consent. For more information, read our Privacy Statement.