Useful contacts

HIV websites for GPs

HIV+ person’s support

• National AIDS Manual (AIDSMAP)
  
  • Lincoln House, 1 Brixton Road, London SW9 6DE
  • T: 020 7840 0050, Mon – Fri, 9:30am – 5:30pm
  • E: info@nam.org.uk
    
  • Delivers reliable and accurate HIV information across the world to HIV-positive people and to the professionals who treat, support and care for them
• National AIDS Helpline
  
  • T: 0800 917 2227
• West London Gay Men's Project
  
  • Provides services for men who have sex with men (MSM) in West London including a free fast HIV testing service at various community venues across London, offering immediate test results in a comfortable setting.
  • Facebook: West London Gmp (London Network)
  • Freephone: 0800 587 8302
  • E: info@westlondongmp.org.uk
• Living Well with HIV
  • Document about living well with HIV
• UK Coalition of People Living with HIV & AIDS
• 250 Kennington Lane, SE11 5RD
• T: 020 7564 2180, Mon – Fri, 9am – 6pm
• Provides advice on welfare rights, benefits and adult career guidance
• Terrence Higgins Trust
  • 314–320 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8DP
  • T: 020 7812 1600
  • Direct Helpline: 0845 122 1200 (Information Helpline on all Services)
  • F: 020 7812 1601
  • E: info@tht.org.uk
• London Lighthouse
  
  • 111-117 Lancaster Rd, London W11 1QT
  • T: 020 7792 1200
  • Support centre with free services including an informal drop-in area, social activities, information service, day care, counselling support groups, creative and complimentary therapies, home support, HIV testing assessment and referral. Provides support to partners, friends and families. Limited walk-in rapid HIV testing Mondays 5 – 8pm.
• Lighthouse South London
  • 14–15 Lower Marsh, London SE1 7RJ
  • T: 020 7803 1660
  • E: info@lighthouse-south.org.uk
  • Offers HIV counselling, social workers, therapies, help at home, housing advice, financial advice, benefits, legal issues etc.

Women and children and HIV

• Positive Partners & Positively Children
  • Unit 64, Eurolink Business Centre, 49 Effra Road, Brixton SW2
  • T: 020 7738 7333, Mon–Fri, 9am–5pm
  • E: office@ppclondon.org.uk
  • Provides practical and emotional support to children and their families affected by HIV/AIDS.
• Positively Women
  • 347–349 City Road, London, EC1V 1LR
  • T: 020 7713 0222, Mon–Fri, 10am–1pm and 2–4pm
  • E: poswomen@dircon.co.uk
    
  • Peer support services to women with HIV/AIDS, including support groups and telephone service.
    • Mondays: Women only
    • Thursdays: AKAIRAH (Black and Asian people only)
    • Tuesdays, Wednesdays, & Fridays: open to anyone living with HIV

Black & minority ethnic groups

• African AIDS Helpline
  • Helpline: 0800 0967 500, Mon–Fri, 10am–6pm
  • Advice and information on HIV & Sexual Health for African people in England (in English, French, Portuguese, Shona, Swahili & Luganda)
• NAZ Project
  • Palingswick House (Annexe), 241 King Street London W6 9LP
  • Helpline/Office: 020 8741 1879
  • E: npl@naz.org.uk
  • Naz Project London (NPL) provides sexual health and HIV prevention and support services to targeted black & minority ethnic (BME) communities in London

Intravenous/recreational drug users

• Hungerford Drug Project
  • 32A Wardour Street, London, W1D 6QR
  • Helpline/Office: 020 7437 3523, daily, 10am – 6pm
  • Advice, support, information and counselling for people who use drugs, including complimentary services and groups.
  • Drop-in: Mon–Fri, 2–5pm and weekends, 11am–5pm
  • GLT drop-in: Thursdays, 6–8:30pm

Sexual Health

• Sexual Health Helpline
  
  • 24hr Helpline: 0800 567 123 (call may be charged if made from a mobile)
  • Free & confidential telephone service with advice about HIV, AIDS, sexual health, sexually transmitted infections and local services, clinics and support

Sexual assault

• The “Haven”
  • Camberwell  Haven: 020 7346 1599 (office hours)/020 7737 4000 (after hours)
  • Paddington Haven: 020 7886 1101 (office hours)/020 7886 6666 (after hours)
  • Whitechapel Haven: 020 7247 4787 (all hours)
  • For anyone—female, male or children—who has been sexually assaulted within the last week

Contraceptive advice and pregnancy

• Brook
  • Helpline: 0800 018 5023, Mon–Fri, 9am–5pm & Sundays 9–11pm
  • 24 Hour Info Line: 0207 950 7700
  • Free confidential sex advice and contraception for  people under 25 years old—clinics nationwide
• Family Planning Association UK
  • 50 Featherstone Street, London, EC1Y 8QU
  • Helpline: 0845 310 1334, Mon–Fri, 9am–5:45pm (closed Thursdays, 3–4:30pm)
  • T: 020 7837 4044
• British Pregnancy Advisory Service
  • T: 08457 304 030