Welcome to the Positive Speakers Bureau
Real Stories. Real Impact. Ending HIV stigma through lived experience.
The Positive Speakers Bureau (PSB) connects you with HIV positive speakers who courageously share their personal journeys. Through honest and powerful storytelling, our speakers educate communities, break down stigma, and inspire understanding.
Speakers tailor their presentations in response to you and your workforce, providing personal, meaningful knowledge and experience. Our aim is for our speakers to talk about their personal stories of living with HIV, and to organically weave in stories of how this impacts other areas of their lives, from homophobia and bullying, to equity and access to healthcare. This is more than just talk about HIV, this is a presentation about life.
All speakers attend formal training workshops and are provided with comprehensive skills development in order to provide the best outcome possible to your participants, workforce, and community.
Each speaker brings a unique perspective highlighting resilience, hope, and the realities of living with HIV today. Our goal is to foster empathy, challenge HIV stigma, and empower others through peer-led education.
What do Speakers Talk About?
Our speakers have been trained to talk about their personal experiences in a way that is engaging and informative to your participants, workforce, or community. While the focus of the presentation is about lived experience with HIV, our speakers will organically weave in topics and subjects that you have identified as key focuses for the presentation in a way that is informative and knowledgable.
Discrimination and Bullying, Access to Healthcare, LGBTQIA+ Rights, and Mental Health are common topics discussed in our presentations alongside HIV Awareness, however we can offer a range of topics to talk about in addition to our core work as informed by you during the discussion and planning of our presentation.
While HIV Awareness and understanding is at the core of our work, our aim is to provide a presentation that is informative for you and that helps positively shape your participants, workforce, or community through a deeper understanding of the issues facing those living with HIV.
Where do Speakers Present?
Based in Perth, Western Australia, we provide HIV awareness presentations to:
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Schools and universities
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Workplaces and corporate organisations
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Health care providers and community groups
Speakers are asked to tell their stories to whoever wants to listen, no matter the size of the audience. We are just as comfortable presenting to a large audience of professionals working in the healthcare industry as we are talking to a small group of students who want to learn about STIs and safer sex practices.
If you are unsure if you are a suitable audience for our speakers, we encourage you to get in touch. We can almost guarantee that we can tailor our presentation and select a suitable speaker for almost any audience, and we will work closely with you to make sure that your needs are met
Book a Speaker Today
Whether you’re planning an event, training, or classroom session, the Positive Speakers Bureau is here to support your HIV education and awareness efforts in WA.