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Green Light – Tate Modern visit – African photography exhibition

Positive East 159 Mile End Road, London, United Kingdom

Our support group for anyone living with HIV who lives, or gets their HIV treatment in, East London.  Offering a safe and supportive environment to help you connect with other people living with HIV, to socialise, have fun and learn and share with each other. It takes place on the last Wednesday of every other […]

Mindfulness meditation – Every Tuesday and Friday

Online via Zoom

Everybody needs a little time away from the everyday stresses and strains of life. Twice a week, Andre Smith – Positive East’s Counselling Co-ordinator – leads a 30 minute online mindfulness meditation session. These usually run twice every week on: Tuesdays at 5pm Fridays at 12.30pm (Note there are no mindfulness sessions when Andre is […]

Women’s Gym Sessions – Every Wednesday 2pm to 5pm

Positive East 159 Mile End Road, London, United Kingdom

The Positive East gym is just for women every Wednesday from 2pm to 5pm. To use the gym, you need to be eligible (living or getting your HIV care in East London), and have registered to use our services. Also, it’s essential that you first have an induction session to assess your needs and show […]

Regents Park Summer Picnic with Food Chain and YMCA Positive Health

Join the Positive East outing to the Regents Park Summer Picnic with the Food Chain and the YMCA Positive Health club.  Open to all in the HIV community, friends and allies.  Bring a blanket to sit on, a picnic lunch and, if you can, something to share.  Stay for as short or as long as […]

Theatre Night – Beautiful Thing at Theatre Royal Stratford East

Theatre Royal Stratford East Gerry Raffles Square, London, United Kingdom

This 30th-anniversary revival of Jonathan Harvey's iconic, coming-out and coming-of-age play set in the nineties, is about community, friendship, rites of passage and what it is to be 16 and in love. It's a touching, urban love story, full of warmth and humour. Many of us are familiar with the film version, but this is […]

Wellbeing Matters: U=U (Undetectable equals Untransmittable)

Stratford Advice Arcade 107 to 109 The Grove, Stratford, United Kingdom

The first of our new series of Wellbeing Matters hybrid (in-person and on Zoom) events, focusing on the health and wellbeing matters that people with HIV using our services have asked to learn more about. This time it's a focus on U=U - Undetectable equals Untransmittable.  Introduced and chaired by Positive East's Head of Health […]

Compassionate Minds – an extra opportunity to practice self-compassion

Positive East 159 Mile End Road, London, United Kingdom

Are you living with HIV and ever found that you compare yourself negatively with other people, or felt that you’re not good enough? Do you sometimes feel like a failure, or criticise yourself when you make a mistake? If you have said yes to any of these you’re not alone  - and Compassionate Minds could […]

POSTPONED – Positive Life – Queer walking tour of Whitechapel

Tonight's Positve Life has had to be postponed, for reasons beyond our control Our monthly group for gay and bisexual men, and men who have sex with men living with HIV.  Cisgender and trans men are welcomed. Meets on the 3rd Tuesday of every month – social meetings, films, speakers, discussions or just getting together […]

Auricular (Ear) Acupuncture

Positive East 159 Mile End Road, London, United Kingdom

We're so pleased that we can bring Ear Acupuncture sessions back to Positive East, running on Wednesday afternoons from 4.30pm to 5.30pm. Ear acupuncture is a type of acupuncture that involves inserting tiny needles into specific points on the ear. Stimulating these points promotes healing in other areas of the body. Many people living with […]