The Ian Charleson Day Centre 1990-2020 is celebrating 30 years of supporting patients with HIV and AIDS. Even though theres still no HIV cure, HIV has become become a treatable condition.
Although not all patients are frail, many have other non-medical needs, including isolation, loneliness, or physical mobility problems. The aim is to help provide a better quality of life and wellbeing in HIV ageing patents, many of whom have lived through difficult times of loss and fear, and have the legacy of earlier AIDS diagnoses and side effects from more toxic earlier drugs used for HIV infection.
Your donation will help to support people, often without access to funds, to participate in exercise classes, receive massage and other complementary therapies, attend social events to combat loneliness, and attend classes to empower them with knowledge about how to best put themselves at the centre of their care as they grow older with HIV.