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Telephone tutorial: HIV / AIDS

This is a past event

11th October 2011, 2:00pm - 3.00pm, At your desk

  • How would you react if an employee told you they had been diagnosed with HIV?
  • Should you tell their colleagues or keep the information hidden?
  • What about other traumatic conditions? Would you feel confident supporting your staff as they live and work with their condition?

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Roland Chesters was diagnosed as being HIV+ and having AIDS on 1 Sept 2006.

Join this tutorial to hear his story; how the diagnosis affected him physically and mentally and how the reactions of his line manager and colleagues at work impacted on his well-being.

Roland, a regular attendee at the All Party Parliamentary Group on HIV and AIDS, will provide callers with an overview of the key facts about HIV/AIDS including:

  • What is HIV/AIDS: facts, figures and myth-busting
  • Communication with staff - best practice
  • The law
  • Travel restrictions
  • Reasonable adjustments
  • Confidentiality
  • Health and safety
  • Discrimination

Speakers:

Roland Chesters is currently the Diversity & Equality Policy Officer at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Special Advisor on HIV/AIDS to the Employers' Forum on Disability and several other organisations (Restless Development/Gemini/Dance4Life).

Roland is a Schools Speaker for Terrence Higgins Trust, a Course Facilitator for their Talk Safe programme and for their Newly Diagnosed Groups and appears in their forthcoming 21st Century HIV publication.

He holds the City & Guilds Level 2 Certificate in HIV/AIDS awareness  (the only UK qualification on this topic) and the Stamford University Facilitator Training Certificate for the Positive Self-Management Program for HIV+ People.

Tracey Abbott, EFD will chair this event.

Tracey joined EFD as the Recruitment Advisor - a role created to help members increase the uptake of disabled talent whilst removing the barriers. Using her expertise and experience gained over two decades working in recruitment, Tracey delivers external reviews of recruitment practices to public and private sector organisations, develops and implements bespoke recruitment tool kits, and provides best practice recruitment training.

Why attend?

  • To hear a first hand account of the physical and mental impact of being diagnosed, and living with, HIV/AIDS.
  • To find out if what you think you know about HIV/AIDS is true and what is myth.
  • To feel more confident that you could support your line managers if a member of their team announced that they were HIV positive.
  • To understand better how to support employees with any traumatic condition. 
  • To ask any questions you may have about HIV/AIDS

Who should attend?

  • Human resources and diversity managers. Line managers.
  • Anyone who wants to know the facts about HIV/AIDS.
  • Anyone who has questions about HIV/AIDS.