About Ensuring Positive Futures
Ensuring Positive Futures (EPF) is an innovative employability programme for people living with HIV in the UK, and winner of the 2006 Guardian Public Service Award.
“Employers and service providers have discriminated against others just because they ‘think’ they have HIV and this has got to stop. Other countries have closed this loophole and so should we.”
Rowan Harvey - Terrence Higgins Trust
Find out more about this campaign to combat HIV discrimination
The EPF programme is run by a partnership of organisations including major HIV charities, businesses, government bodies and trades unions working together to support people living with HIV in the workplace.
HIV is a workplace issue that all employers should understand. Most people diagnosed with HIV are of working age, and can live long and prosperous lives with the right treatment and medication.
The Disability Discrimination Act now covers HIV from the point of diagnosis. It is important that employers understand how to treat people living with HIV fairly and in accordance with the DDA.
We aim to help employers understand the needs of workers affected by HIV, and to support people living with HIV in the workplace.
We also support Trade Unions in the development of HIV friendly workplaces, and work in partnership with several major Trade Unions.
HIV policies are a useful tool in helping your workforce understand HIV and to ensure that discrimination does not occur because of ignorance or misunderstanding.
Careers advice, training and welfare support are some of the ways we support HIV positive people in finding and retaining jobs.
This site is operated by the UK Coalition of People Living with HIV and AIDS, 250 Kennington Lane, London SE115RD. Registered Charity number 1081309, Limited company, Registered Company in England and Wales number 2857569. Reproduction of material on this site is encouraged for non-for-profit or educational purposes on condition that permission is sought first. Ensuring Positive Futures is part of a community programme called Equal, a European Social Fund initiative, which tests and promotes new means of combating all forms of discrimination and inequality in the labour market. The GB Equal Support Unit is managed by ECOTEC.