Patient representative, Alfred Health’s Consumer Advisory Committee and the HIV Services Advisory Group; Australia

Max was Living Positive Victoria’s Positive Speakers Bureau Coordinator from 1999 until December 2019. His focus was the lived narratives of people living with HIV and educating the broader community. A crucial part of the Bureau is peer-based support and advocacy. Max has presented at International AIDS Conferences in Vienna and Melbourne, National LGBTI Ageing and Aged Care Conferences, ASHM, ICAAP and HIV Educators Conferences on the role of PLHIV Speakers utilising personal narratives to challenge stigma and discrimination. He has presented Conference abstract papers on HPV Anal Cancer at the AFAO/NAPWHA HIV Educators Conference and Alfred Health Symposiums. Post retirement Max is a consumer representative on Alfred Health’s Consumer Advisory Committee and the HIV Services Advisory Group. Past roles were as a consumer member on Alfred Health’s Patient Comes First Committee and member on the Burnet’s Ageing Well with HIV website Committee