The PaSH Partnership have founded the first Greater Manchester HIV Testing Week, which will take place between Monday 16 and Sunday 22 November 2020.
Greater Manchester, has become a Fast-Track City; a global partnership between cities that have the ambition of ending all new cases of HIV within a generation by reducing transmissions, late HIV diagnoses, and eventually new diagnoses of HIV.
The ‘HIV: Let’s sort this together’ campaign has been working towards Greater Manchester’s ambition of ending all new cases of HIV within a generation, through promoting HIV testing, prevention methods such as condoms and lube, PEP and PrEP and HIV management through medication (U=U).
This phase of the campaign will focus on testing and encouraging people to know their status.
It’s a great opportunity to get tested and encourage others to test for HIV from the comfort of your own home. Throughout this week we want to increase the number of people testing for HIV and the number of people who know their HIV status.
The PaSH Partnership want to encourage people to test through focusing on how easy it is to do a self-sampling test in the comfort of their own home. The PaSH Partnership also want to empower people to know what to do if the test does come back positive.
How YOU can support Greater Manchester HIV Testing Week
- Community leaders, charities, barbers and hairdressers, faith leaders, GPs, sexual health clinics and other stakeholders are invited to take part by:
- Using the hashtag #GMHIVtestingweek and #SortHIV to promote Greater Manchester HIV testing week.
- Sharing the campaign on your social media channels and through internal communications.
- Sharing with service users and community members about HIV testing week and where they can access information about HIV and prevention as well as links to order home testing kits, such as https://sorthiv.org.uk/
- Using promotional materials such as print-ready posters and flyers, waiting room screens and digital assets, including email footers, website banners and desktop wallpaper
- Share articles about the campaign and Greater Manchester HIV Testing Week