Find out how you can get up to £5000 for a project, activity or residential through the Hackney Youth Opportunity Fund. For anyone aged 8 - 19 (up to 25 if you have support needs).
Zion, a member of the Hackney Children in Care Council, OVOC, Chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group on Looked-after Children. Read more here
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1 December is World Aids Day – an opportunity for people to join together in the fight against HIV. But what do you know about the HIV virus? Enough to make sure you're protected from infection? Here’s a few quick questions to test your knowledge (answers are at the bottom of the page).
1. How many people in the UK are infected with HIV?
a) about 10,000
b) about 100,000
c) about 1,000,000
2. What’s the most common cause of infection?
a) Sharing needles when injecting drugs
b) Unprotected sex
c) Blood transfusions
3. True or false? You can catch HIV by sharing utensils with someone who is infected.
4. True or false? There is no cure for HIV.
Finding out more
If you want to find out more about HIV, then check out www.hivaware.org.uk Also see the young hackney Advice and Support pages for more information about other Sexually Transmitted Infections.
You may also like to join up with the Hackney-wide Come Correct scheme (which used to be called Free-dom). The scheme offers free condoms to under 25s in East London, details of how you can sign up are on the CC organisation page.
Answers to the quiz
1. Answer = b) There are over 90,000 people in the UK who are infected with the HIV virus - and around a quarter of those are unaware they are infected.
2. Answer b) HIV can be passed on through infected bodily fluids, most commonly via sex without a condom or by sharing infected needles, syringes or other injecting drug equipment. But over 90% of people with HIV were infected through sexual contact.
3. Answer = False. HIV is not passed on through spitting, biting or sharing utensils.
4. Answer = True. There is no vaccine and no cure for HIV.
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