Positive Voice

Positive Voice (Greek: Θετική Φωνή) is the Association of People Living with HIV in Greece — a community organization founded in 2009. Its stated mission is to defend the rights of people living with HIV, to counter the spread of HIV/AIDS, and to reduce the social and economic impact of the epidemic in Greece. It is a membership-based association rather than a commercial company, and it operates as a civil-society brand in the Greek public-health space. The organization runs prevention and sexual-health services, including a Prevention and Sexual Health Centre and a centre aimed at refugees, migrants and asylum seekers, as well as an empowerment centre for people working in the sex industry. It also promotes the U=U message (Undetectable = Untransmittable), a public-health communication campaign explaining that people with an undetectable viral load cannot transmit HIV. Positive Voice is visible in Greek and European public-health advocacy. Its news stream covers policy declarations on HIV/AIDS, participation in Athens Pride and Thessaloniki Pride, European HIV and STI testing weeks, International Condom Day, menstrual-health awareness, and roundtables such as HIV Outcomes. It also mobilizes members, volunteers and newsletter subscribers through its website. Because it is an association, Positive Voice does not sell products in the conventional commercial sense; its "offerings" are services, advocacy and community programs. Its brand identity is tied to the Greek HIV community and to human-rights-centred public health.

Positive Voice (Θετική Φωνή) was founded in 2009 as the Association of People Living with HIV in Greece (Σύλλογος Οροθετικών Ελλάδος). It emerged as a community response to the HIV epidemic in Greece, with the aim of defending the rights of people living with HIV, addressing the spread of HIV/AIDS, and limiting its social and economic consequences. From its founding, the organization combined advocacy with direct service provision. Over time it developed a Prevention and Sexual Health Centre, a dedicated centre for refugees, migrants and asylum seekers, and an Empowerment Centre for people working in the sex industry. It also became a prominent communicator of the U=U (Undetectable = Untransmittable) message in Greece. Positive Voice participates in major Greek LGBTQ+ and community events such as Athens Pride and Thessaloniki Pride, and engages with European public-health initiatives including European HIV and STI testing weeks and HIV Outcomes roundtables. Its public positions emphasize community involvement and human rights in HIV policy, as reflected in its policy declarations and campaigns.

• 2009

  Positive Voice is founded as the Association of People Living with HIV in Greece.

• Development of the Prevention and Sexual Health Centre and related community services.

• Participation in Athens Pride and Thessaloniki Pride.

• Engagement in European HIV testing weeks and HIV Outcomes roundtables.

Community-based, human-rights-centred HIV/AIDS association and advocacy voice in Greece.

• Prevention and Sexual Health Centre

  Community centre providing prevention and sexual health services.

• Prevention and Sexual Health Centre for refugees, migrants and asylum seekers

  Targeted centre for migrant and refugee populations.

• Empowerment Centre for people working in the sex industry

  Centre supporting people working in the sex industry.

• U=U communication

  Public-health message that undetectable equals untransmittable.

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