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The PARK Project was conceived and launched in 1995 by Positively Healthy and Kingston and Richmond Health Authority (KRHA), as a multi-thousand pound project to benefit local residents living with HIV. It was led by Cass Mann, CEO of Positively Healthy and Martin Weaver, Public Health Specialist at KRHA.  

The aim of the PARK Project is to: "Develop community based AIDS prevention strategies that enhance good health in people who are HIV positive, thereby seeking to prevent their progression to AIDS defining illnesses." The users of this project will be residents in Richmond and Kingston-upon-Thames who are HIV positive and may or may not be using local services, as well as others who are not yet ready to have an HIV test. The project will be based with Positively Healthy.

The PARK Project recommenced on 7 April 2003 as a result of the feedback we have received from the local gay male population who use local Public Sex Environments (PSEs) who have stated that the agency funded to provide condoms at PSEs has never been seen. The agency concerned, Healthy Gay Living Centre, based at London Bridge, advised us via the lead officer of SW London HIV/GUM Commissioning Consortium that they did have a presence at local PSEs, although not one of gay men who contacted us had ever seen them.

The 2003 season ended on 24 October and the 2004 season commenced on 9 April.

     
Introduction   Evaluation of Workshops   The Programme
Summary, introduction and aims of The PARK Project   Evaluation and demographics of the workshops   How does The PARK Project work?
         
The Final Phase       Local Press coverage
Notes from the meetings in 1998       Newspaper articles and letters
 

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