Plus Roma
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Mission Statement
Plus Roma is an organisation of LGBT+ people living with HIV and their allies whose purpose is to support LGBT+ people living with or at risk of HIV in their social environment, promoting their health and cultivating their human values. Plus Roma activity is based upon science: the information disseminated are those validated according to the scientific method.
About This Cause
Plus Roma was founded based upon the observation that the clinical management of HIV infection, while guaranteeing undeniable successes in terms of virological control and maintenance of a good state of health, cannot address all the other challenges associated with HIV infection: social connections, psychological wellbeing, isolation, disclosure, and many others. Most of the "social" challenges associated with HIV infection (from fear to loneliness, from disclosure to stigma) are too often left to the solitary management of the single person living with HIV. Even today, there are too many gay men living with HIV, not to mention trans people living with HIV, who do not know how to manage the social aspects related to HIV infection: they found themselves alone facing hard questions ("how long I will survive?"), management of the sense of guilt, of the fears of dying, of being alone, and fear to be "outed" as people with HIV. If new are to defeat HIV, we need to tackle it at the social level, as well as developing and using without barriers to access as many drugs and prevention tools as we need. This is the challenge that Plus Roma has decided to take up through its constitution. Plus Roma began its activities in Rome in February 2019 and was officially founded in February 2020 as an affiliate of Plus, the first Italian association of LGBT + people living with HIV, based in Bologna since 2015. Plus Roma focuses on the social aspects related to HIV infection, while at the same time keeping an attentive eye at the scientific aspects and progresses; our mission is to give space, breath and resonance to problems that have a strong weight on people's lives and that often directly affect also on the clinical management of the infection. What we do • Free testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections such as syphilis or HCV run by peer operators outside the hospital setting. • Pre-test counselling and test support. • Post HIV diagnosis support. • Communication campaigns on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, for a conscious and informed sex life, and against discrimination against people living with HIV. • Seminars and training workshops on scientific, social and cultural issues. • Support activities for specific groups, such as people living with HIV for a long time, people with problematic drug use in the sexual environment (chemsex), deaf people living with HIV, etc. • Vis-a-vis consultancy and support. List of the main activities of Plus Roma Recurring activities • Checkpoint Plus Roma, the first center in the capital run by the community to offer all year round HIV and STIs tests outside the hospital and peer counseling services. • Venerdì Positivi ("Positive Fridays"), monthly meetings dedicated to men living with HIV who have sex with other mes: one Friday a month we discuss a topic related to the life of people living with HIV in Italy. • AperitHIVo, information meetings on scientific, cultural and social issues related to living with HIV, social life of LGBT+ people and their affectivity. Other activities and campaigns • March 2021: support for the initiative launched by Vanni Piccolo, historical representative of the LGBT movement in the capital, in favor of anti-Covid-19 vaccination • July 2020: appeal to the health authorities of the Lazio Region for the restoration of health services for people with HIV suspended as a result of the Covid-19 emergency. • December 2020: organization of the HIVisible - 2gether flash mob in Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome • December 2020: participation in the consultations on the regional law proposal against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (unified text of the proposed laws n. 15, 105, 129 and 156). • November 2020: with videomakers Frocya, shooting of a series of informative videos on prevention and life with HIV and short videos with the personal experiences of people living with HIV. • October 2020: participation in the demonstration in favor of the law against homo-lesbo-bi-trans-phobia in Piazza San Silvestro in Rome. • October 2020: participation in the ICAR 2020 conference on HIV and related diseases. • July 2020: participation in the “Much more than Zan law” presidium against homo-lesbo-bi-trans-intersex-a-phobic and sexist violence. • December 2019: participation in the Dynamiko aperitif organized by Libera Rugby and Roman Volley with an information banquet and a fundraiser. • June 2019: participation in Pride 2019 with the "Together we block HIV" campaign.