HIV support services

HIV treatment is highly effective in improving the quality of life of people living with HIV. Now, with U=U (undetectable = untransmittable), treatment is also an effective way of preventing passing on HIV to partners.

YorSexualHealth (YSH) runs a free and confidential support service for people living with HIV and their partners and carers in York and North Yorkshire.

We can support you with:

• Self-management of your physical and mental health
• Assistance with benefits and getting back into work or education
• Peer support and group support opportunities
• Symptoms management 

You can be referred to the service by a member of YSH staff or you can also fill in our self-referral form and send it back to us at socialsupport@york.nhs.uk. Click here to download the form.

Upcoming HIV support group sessions:

The upcoming peer group meetings in York and Scarborough are postponed. Please email socialsupport@york.nhs.uk or call 01904 725423 for more info on available support 

York: 1st April 2020, 6:15pm-8pm at the Yorkshire MESMAC office, The Workshop, Marygate Lane, York, YO30 7BJ. 

Scarborough: 25th March 2020, 6pm-7pm at Falsgrave Community Resource Centre, Seamer Road, Scarborough, YO12 4DJ.

Harrogate: For more information on available support in Harrogate, please email socialsupport@york.nhs.uk

There are other services you can also access for support:

• Be Resilient http://www.be-resilient.org/
• Terrence Higgins Trust https://www.tht.org.uk/our-services/online-services
• National Long Term Survivors Group: https://www.nltsg.org.uk/
• Positively UK run a helpline. Call 020 7713 0444

For further information on living with HIV and U=U you can visit:

• i-base http://i-base.info/u-equals-u-qa/
• Terence Higgins Trust https://www.tht.org.uk/hiv-and-sexual-health/living-well-hiv
• Avert https://www.avert.org/living-with-hiv/newly-diagnosed
• MESMAC http://www.mesmac.co.uk/