Women account for more than half the number of people living with HIV worldwide.

This epidemic unfortunately remains an epidemic of women

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Panellists

Susan Cole - Susan is an award-winning HIV activist, broadcaster, writer and public speaker, advocating for people living with HIV for two decades. She leads the community engagement and broadcasting activities for the HIV information charity NAM aidsmap, producing and hosting the live broadcast series aidsmapLIVE for a global audience of people living with HIV. She has previously worked for a number of NGOs including the UK Coalition of People Living with HIV, the National AIDS Trust and has serves as a Trustee of the Children’s HIV Association & the Women’s HIV charity the Sophia Forum. 

She is particularly passionate about issues affecting women and people of colour living with HIV, writing and presenting about the health inequities they face. She is a member of the Global HIV Collaborative, 4M Network of Mentor Mothers and serves as a community representative of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) HIV Special Interest Group. 

Professor Yvonne Gilleece - Honorary Clinical Professor and Consultant in HIV Medicine & Sexual Health at Brighton & Sussex Medical School and University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust. She is a national and international lead on HIV in Women and is Chair of the BHIVA Pregnancy Guidelines, Vice Chair of WAVE, Chair of SWIFT, promoting research in women living with HIV. She is currently the Honorary Secretary of BHIVA. She also specialises in HIV and Bone and HIV and Hepatitis Coinfection & Liver Dysfunction.

Martha Tholanah - Advocacy Associate at Making Waves in Harare, Zimbabwe

Sophie Strachan - Director Sophia Forum - Sophie sits on the HIV Action Plan Oversight Group and the Vision for HIV in London Community Advisory Group. Sophie sits on Public Health England SHARE (Surveillance of HIV Acquired Recently; Enhanced) Advisory Group

Juddy Ottie - HIV Support and Prevention Manager-AAF / One Voice Network representative

Jacquie Richardson - CEO Positive Life Northern Ireland