CHIVA Membership
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The Association
CHIVA is an Association of professionals who are committed to providing excellence in the care of children affected by HIV and their families. Members embrace many different disciplines including nursing, GU Medicine, paediatrics, community child health, child development, psychology and social work, dieticians, pharmacists and support services.
The aims of the Association are:
- to promote issues relevant to children infected or affected by HIV, including perinatal mother-to-infant transmission of HIV
- to act as a resource for relevant national organisations such as the Department of Health, Commissioning Authorities, Royal Colleges (such as RCPCH, RCOG, RCN), Public Health Laboratory Service and BHIVA itself
- to develop and regularly update standards of care for children and families with HIV, recognising and promoting the multidisciplinary support that is required
- to encourage service providers to use the standards for audit, clinical governance and to inform local commissioning authorities
- to highlight the needs of adolescents with HIV and promote good practice for transitional care to adult services
- to help service providers achieve continuing professional development in this field
- to promote involvement in multi centre research trials both by active involvement in trial design and regular open meetings to discuss results, implement evidence based changes in practice and identify future research priorities
- to represent relevant issues to the BHIVA Executive Committee and ensure that BHIVA Spring and Autumn conferences and business meetings address these issues.
Subscription information
- The membership year runs from 1 January to 31 December.
- Subscriptions paid by members joining the Association after 1 November will be regarded as being in respect of the following year.
- The annual subscription is payable in advance on or before 1 January in each year and members whose subscriptions remain unpaid by 28 February following will be regarded as in arrears and, following a reminder, will cease to be members of the Association.
- Subscriptions fees for the year 2010 are £30 - £60.
Benefits of membership:
- Voting rights and eligibility to stand for election to the CHIVA Executive Committee
- Emailing list for announcements of CHIVA activities, including CPD-accredited educational meetings and updated guidelines /agreed standards of care
- Discounted registration to CHIVA Annual Conference
- Multidisciplinary educational meetings every 2 months in London
- Access to conference grants and scholarships
- Free subscription to CHIVA Newsletter (up to 4 copies p.a.)
- Free subscription to HIV Treatment Bulletin (provided by HIV i-Base: 10 copies p.a.)
- Dedicated members’ area on CHIVA website for exchange of documents and information*
- Discount of up to £15 for membership of the British HIV Association
(www.bhiva.org)
*CHIVA distributes most information to members by email only, so in order to receive all your mailings, please supply an email
address. We will not use your email address for any other purpose.