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Teaching young people about HIV
Snippet from the BBC documentary Truth About HIV – watch me in action delivering a secondary school HIV workshop and hear my story. Lizzie Jordan – HIV Workshop from Think 2 Speak on Vimeo.
#WISE100
So very very proud of my place on Natwest’s WISE100 list recognising women in social enterprise. Incredibly humbling to be listed alongside people achieving truly remarkable things in social enterprise and investment. The list is a new initiative in partnership between the Natwest SE100 Index and… Read More
2016 Roundup
2016 – my year in HIV advocacy It has been quite a year – and, as per last year, I’ve taken the opportunity to reflect. Trying to choose a sole image to represent each month has been so very difficult, yet joyful. 2016 – I’ll never forget you.
World AIDS Days – House of Lords
I was honoured to be Terrence Higgins Trust’s invited speaker at their Annual Parliamentary Reception in The House of Lords for World AIDS Day 2016. Sharing my personal story, and the work of Think2Speak with dignitaries, fellow advocates, politicians, medics and the media. Read more… Read More
AIDS2016: Loving, living, HIV, Durban, South Africa & Me
AIDS2016 Durban South Africa – I’ve pick out a handful of my musings from a selection of the sessions I went to in both the main venue and the Global Village
The people, the faces, the stories of AIDS2016
Personally one of the greatest outcomes from the conference was the people that I’ve met. Many advocates and activists that I’ve followed on social media for many years became real people to embrace, and I met their friends, their colleagues, their projects and their stories.
Condom Couture by Adriana Bertini
Adriana Bertini is an artist living in Brazil who takes old or faulty condoms and uses them to create art. She goes into schools, gets the young people used to handling and talking about condoms, whilst smashing the shame around carrying them, all while together creating amazing works of art!
Red Ribbon Awards
The Red Ribbon Awards held a ‘Special Session’ to congratulate the 2016 Red Ribbon award winners, in Durban South Africa at the AIDS2016 conference to celebrate the vital work being done by these grass level community based groups.
Engagement Tour: Blue Roof Wellness Centre
Lizzie Jordan was able to visit The Blue Roof Wellness Centre designed and built by Keep a Child Alive (KCA), an organization founded in 2003 by AIDS activist Leigh Blake and 15-time Grammy Award-winner Alicia Keys, as an emergency push to get life-saving HIV medication to children needlessly dying of AIDS in Africa.