HIV Awareness

Working to provide improved confidence and knowledge of HIV, challenging myths and tackling stigma, and encouraging testing and prevention.

Training for Professionals & Volunteers

Evidence-based and lived experience informed training delivered by HIV Specialists from Blue Sky Trust. This session can be tailored to the needs of your organisation, and includes a lived experience Positive Living Speaker as standard.

Providing the knowledge you need to be able to encourage HIV testing, prevention & engagement in care, and to refer & signpost as appropriate. We empower professionals by equipping them witht he confidence that they can provide non-stigmatising services

For information on costs, please get in touch.

Training in Community Organisations

Evidence-based and lived experience informed training delivered by HIV Specialists from Blue Sky Trust. This session can be tailored to the needs of your service users, and includes a lived experience Positive Living Speaker as standard.

We share our knowledge and experience to support attendees to become more knowledgeable about HIV, sexual health & relationships. As we do this, we tackle myths and help people to have less stigmatising views about HIV.

We also empower attendees with the information they need in order to be able to access sexual health services and confident to access prevention & testing.

For information on costs, please get in touch.

HIV Updates & Bespoke Speaking

We speak at events and offer updates on life with HIV in the present day, as well as discussing the support available for people living with this diagnosis. We are also able to develop pespoke talks and awareness sessions as needed, and are able to include sections for Positive Living Speakers within this.

For information on costs, please get in touch.

Stalls & Events

We also attend community events with stalls and information to raise awareness, start discussions, encourage testing and prevention methods, as well as tackling stigma.

For more information, please get in touch.

Getting our language right is really important for reducing stigma. Please see our Language Guide here for more information.

GPs are well-positioned to offer information around HIV as well as testing and prevention. Please see our GP Guide here for more information.

Positive Living Speakers

We have a team of people living with HIV who share their lived experience and challenge stigma through honest conversations and myth busting. We take part in awareness events, CPD sessions and community-based activities.

We include Positive Living Speakers as part of our standard HIV Awareness Training offer for professionals and community organisations, but they are also able to deliver talks separately from this.

As well as their stories surrounding HIV, our Positive Living speakers come from all walks of life and their personal stories are intersectional with a wide range of other issues and challenges.

For information, including on costs, please get in touch.

Testimonials & Feedback

  • "As a result, we all feel much more confident about having conversations about HIV. It was particularly powerful to have someone with lived experience there to share their journey. Hearing about their life first-hand made a real impact. I would definitely recommend this training to others—and in fact, I already have"

    — Professional Training Organiser & Attendee

  • "I'm glad I came in because I had a lot of fear about it but now that fear is gone and [...] I can be less stigmatising from now on."

    — Attendee at a community organisation session

  • "Really good to have a service user speaking about their journey with HIV. How the treatment of patients have changed"

    — Attendee at a bespoke talk

  • "I have never seen the both groups so engaged, especially with someone external [...] We even had multiple learners ask when [Blue Sky Trust] was going to come back."

    — Volunteer at community organisation

Where Did We Deliver in 2025-2026?

 

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