Comment: | The Gloucestershire Aids Trust is for carers, families, friends and supporters as well as people diagnosed as having the HIV virus. The Trust runs a small grants scheme to help fund anything from respite care and complementary therapies to payment of household bills. These grants can also be made to people affected by the virus as well as those infected by it. There are also support groups available through this Trust and it is hoped that other services will become available as the Trust develops.
Volunteers who wish to help can also contact the group.
The Trust now employs a Support Worker to work with African communities within Gloucestershire. They also offer 'Positive Start', a new service providing peer support for newly diagnosed people.
A new office, at 177 Barton Street Gloucester, serves as a drop-in centre, because of the need to have a point where people can access information support without having to travel to Cheltenham. The Gloucester office will also be used for a new service, Community Based Testing, developed to encourage people (particularly hard to reach groups) to think about the benefits of testing as part of good sexual health. |
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