CD4 Project - The CD4 Community Project

Special notice: good bye to a dearest friend Martin Flynn

With immense sadness we learn of the death of dearest friend Martin Flynn, journalist well recognised for his contentious articles in Positive Nation, more recently Information Coordinator for the International AIDS Society in Geneva, a giant personality and a sharp mind... but overall a warm human being and a great friend, we will miss him deeply.

Rob from Body Positive about Martin

IAS message

IAS

Welcome

These pages are about “The CD4 Community Project”. The project was created in Sheffield in 2006 by people who were interested in using professional music performance and art to raise HIV awareness.

Since music and art can reach and interest people of all ages we seek to promote events were many people become involved and not only learn about prevention but also learn to share with people living with HIV.

We welcome anyone genuinely interested to help raising awareness about HIV and its prevention. The project is managed entirely by volunteers, we accept any contributions that will help support our work.

Mission statement

"Our main aim of is to communicate to as many people as possible how HIV can affect lives and what to do to prevent it. To achieve this, we support art and music events for and by people affected by HIV"

Why do we do it

It's imperative to raise awareness about HIV, millions of men, women, adolescents and children have become infected in the last few years mainly due to a lack of understanding about transmission of HIV. However difficult thinking about this issue may be, the risk is out there, and prevention is the best cure.

There are estimated 40 million people living with HIV in the world, in the UK every year 7000 people are diagnosed with it, and 1 every 3 people are not aware of it. If you live with HIV and are not aware, you will not receive life saving treatments, and also you may pass it on to your partner or children at birth, all this can be prevented with treatment and precautions. There is no need to separate, segregate, ignore or discriminate. These are important messages that need to be shouted out!