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Friday 25 September 2020 CONTENTS Positive Life NSW COVID-19 Toolkit is an update of practical PAGE 1 resources, tools and strategies for people living with HIV in Health NSW, our supporters and associates who are affected by PAGE 2 HIV, as well those who work in the NSW HIV sector. Policy / World News PAGE 3 POSITIVE LIFE NSW COVID-19 RESPONSE THEME SOCIAL SUPPORT GROUP: Peers Connect Online! PAGE 4 welcomes all people living with HIV (PLHIV) in NSW Social & Community Support regardless of gender or sexuality. RSVP Essential. / Thurs PAGE 5 1 October, 6pm-7.30pm AEST, Positive Life NSW Food for Thought @ COVID PAGE 6 BLOG POST: Travelling to and settling in Australia Culture / Art / Books can be more complex when HIV is along for the ride. Find PAGE 7 out how Positive Life NSW can help make this journey Living & Learning easier. / Positive Life NSW PAGE 8 CO-DESIGNED NEEDS ASSESSMENT: Calling all NSW- Sector Support based Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mob living with HIV or at risk of HIV. Let’s have a yarn about HIV! THEME Call Michelle on (02) 9206 2177 or 1800 245 677 This edition’s theme is all (freecall) or [email protected] / Positive Life about slouching towards the NSW COVID19 vaccine – the science, the politics, the funding. Please email content or feedback to [email protected] HEALTH HISTORY: A short history of vaccination If you have severe difficulty breathing call campaigns in Australia and what we might triple zero (000) immediately. expect with COVID19. / ABC News National COVID19 Triage Hotline 1800 020 OPINION: COVID19 has been a stark 080 reminder of the importance of the social determinants of health, and the need to ONLINE RESOURCE: Coronavirus Symptom prioritise support for marginalised Checker. / HealthDirect individuals and groups in our community. / ONLINE RESOURCE: News and information MONASH about Coronavirus in your language. / SBS RESEARCH: Study looks at the impact #COVID19 UPDATES: Latest Coronavirus of the COVID19 pandemic on the health and updates and health statistics. / NSW Health wellbeing of adult Australians. / Southern Highland News TESTING: Find your nearest testing centre in NSW. / NSW Government OPINION: Have I already had coronavirus? How would I know and what MEDIA RELEASE: $2 billion to extend should I do? / The Guardian critical health services across Australia. / Australian Government HEALTH: Amid coronavirus, telehealth has been a game changer for patients — but OPINION: Are you suffering from GPs want their gap fees back. / ABC News 'COVID brain'? You're not alone. Although it is not solely stress creating our general HEALTH: Face shields ineffective at feeling of brain malaise, lockdown has its trapping aerosols, says Japanese own disorienting quality. / SMH supercomputer. / The Guardian SCIENCE: The lasting misery of HEALTH: The coronavirus is mutating, just like most viruses, but the effect isn't as COVID19 long-haulers. Months after pronounced as some headlines suggest. / infection with SARS-CoV-2, some people are ABC News still battling crushing fatigue, lung damage and other symptoms of ‘long COVID’. / Nature NSW HIV SECTOR SERVICES INFORMATION What's available, opening times and access options for people living with HIV and HIV sector personnel. Are your service details up-to-date? Positive Life NSW COVID-19 Toolkit 1 POLICY & REPORTS WORLD NEWS REPORT: A comprehensive survey of Australians' attitudes towards key privacy CANADA: Trudeau warns COVID19 issues, their experiences and perspectives cases are climbing higher, a setback that on the use and misuse of personal data, follows the country’s success in flattening and actions taken to protect their privacy. the curve earlier in the pandemic. / Politico / OAIC FRANCE: Marseille furious at Paris SURVEY ANALYSIS: A global survey of decree to shut its bars as coronavirus soars. more than 10,000 people in 38 countries / The Guardian suggests the COVID-19 pandemic has ISRAEL: Prime Minister Benjamin disrupted women’s lives significantly more Netanyahu has announced the government than men’s. / Third Sector will impose a three-week lockdown REPORT: Australia's community following a major resurgence in coronavirus sector and COVID19. Supporting cases. / Axios communities through the crisis. / ACOSS ROME: How Italy snatched health from REPORT: Settlement Services International the jaws of death. Those who used to scoff has found that community leaders and at its mismanagement should take note of representatives of grassroots associations Rome’s strategy for defeating COVID19. / are a vital asset serving as ambassadors in Foreign Policy keeping newcomers and other diverse UNITED KINGDOM: Younger women communities COVID19 safe and are 'bearing brunt' of second wave of COVID19. stepping up in community-led and peer-to- Figures show big rise in number of women peer ways. / Settlement Services aged 20 to 40 admitted to hospital. / The International Guardian REPORT: Go for zero. How Australia IRAN: Health ministry reports 175 can get to zero COVID19 cases. / Grattan deaths and 3,521 new cases, while President Institute Rouhani considers reimposing restrictions. REPORT: Mental health problems and Iran anticipates ‘third wave’ as COVID19 social media exposure during COVID19 deaths pass 25,000. / Aljazeera outbreak. / Fudan University EUROPE: How it all went wrong (again) REPORT: Coming out of COVID19 in Europe as second wave grips continent. / lockdown: the next steps for Australian 9 NEWS health care. Australia has not yet won the SWEDEN: Has Sweden beaten battle against COVID19, and coming out of coronavirus with herd immunity? / The lockdown risks a second wave of Australian infections. / Grattan Institute Positive Life NSW COVID-19 Toolkit 2 SLOUCHING TOWARDS A VACCINE GOVERNMENT: The Australian Our theme is borrowed from Yeats’ famous Government has joined the COVAX facility, poem, "The Second Coming", also enabling the purchase of COVID19 vaccine connected to the 1918–1919 flu pandemic. doses as they become available. / Australian When Yeats's pregnant wife Georgie Hyde- Health Lees caught the virus, death rates of the LISTEN: Why the wait for a vaccine pandemic among pregnant women were up might be longer than you think. / ABC to 70%. Yeats wrote the poem while Podcast Georgie was convalescing. / Wikipedia OPINION: Vaccine Just over 100 years SCIENCE: We know, from developing ago, a new strain of influenza infected a vaccines against other viruses, everyone's third of the world's population — but within immune response to a vaccine can vary. Five just three years, the threat of this deadly flu ways our immune responses to COVID had all but passed. How do pandemics vaccines are unique. / The Conversation usually end? And how will this one finish? / NEWS: Australians say health workers ABC News should get COVID jab first. / ANU FUNDING: Australia’s A$123 million WATCH: Vaccines and the immune contribution to a global vaccine initiative, response: how vaccines work. / Youtube means if they pass clinical trials, Australians should have access to a wider pool of NEWS: Vaccine experts 'surprised' over COVID19 vaccines. / The Conversation Government's 'optimistic' COVID19 vaccine rollout timeline. / ABC News NEWS: If a COVID19 vaccine is found here's how long it will take to get to your LISTEN: When it finally comes time to GP. / ABC NEWS roll out a coronavirus vaccine, the reality is that some people will have to go first. TRIALS: Halting the Oxford vaccine trial Here's who you think should get a vaccine doesn’t mean it’s not safe – it shows they’re first. / ABC Podcast following the right process. / The Conversation SCIENCE: From adenoviruses to RNA: the pros and cons of different COVID NEWS: A vaccine would normally take vaccine technologies. With around 180 years, if not decades, to develop. COVID19 vaccines being developed around Researchers hope to achieve the same the world, we can group them into five main amount of work in only a few months. / BBC types. / The Conversation News SCIENCE: The global search for the NEWS: COVID19 isn’t the only COVID19 vaccine will likely produce more infectious disease scientists are trying to than one winner. / ABC News find a vaccine for. Here are 3 others. / The Conversation Positive Life NSW COVID-19 Toolkit 3 COMMUNITY SUPPORT SOCIAL SUPPORT SEX WORKERS: Guidelines, harm reduction SOCIAL SUPPORT GROUP: Peers tips and strategies by & for sex workers. / Connect Online! welcomes all people living Red Book, Scarlett Alliance with HIV in NSW regardless of gender or SEX WORKERS: COVID19 news, updates & sexuality. RSVP Essential. / Thurs 1 October, resources for sex workers in NSW. 6pm-7.30pm AEST, Positive Life NSW / SWOP NSW SURVEY: The COVID19 pandemic in SUPPORT: Who you gonna call? a range of Australia: wellbeing and social determinants helplines and supports collected especially of health. / University of Wollongong for people living with HIV during the WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY: 10 COVID19 crisis. / Positive Life NSW October, Make a promise to prioritise your SURVEY: Every year the Council of the own mental health and wellbeing at this Ageing (COTA) NSW surveys people over time. / Mental Health Australia 50 around NSW about the policy issues FREE ONLINE SUPPORT: Anxiety that affect their everyday lives. The support group by WayAhead - Mental information gathered from these surveys Health Association NSW. / Eventbrite inform their ongoing and future policy and advocacy activities. / COTA SUPPORT: Suicide Call Back Service is a nationwide service that provides WSLHD YOUTH: Western Sydney professional 24/7 telephone and online Local Health District is seeking young counselling to people who are affected by people aged between 16 to 24 years who suicide. Call 1300 659 467 or live, work, study or have used health www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au services in Western Sydney to join its Youth Council. / Community Connective SURVEY: Have your say on an inclusive and accessible city for people with disability, people with mental health conditions, and carers.
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