
Building the PozQoL website
Image from ViiV Healthcare and Shutterstock’s HIV in View collection
Welcome to the PozQoL website
The PozQoL website was launched in February 2021 to bring together all available information about PozQoL. Its purpose is to support clinicians, community and peer workers, and researchers in using PozQoL in their work. Ultimately, this aims to help people living with HIV enjoy a good quality of life and live their best lives.
This page provides transparency and accountability in the development of the PozQoL website.
Associate Professor Graham Brown — one of the PozQoL Project’s lead investigators — welcomes you to the PozQoL Website. (Transcript below »)
Language
This website is published in English, with content intentionally kept simple and accessible.
- Most content is written in plain English, targeting a Flesch Reading Ease Score of 60+ and a Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level of 9 or below
- This approach aims to make the website easier to understand for everyone and more adaptable for translation into other languages
If you have difficulty understanding any of the content on this website, please do not hesitate to let us know.
Images
We are proud to use photos of real people living with HIV who are thriving in happy, healthy, and fulfilling lives. We thank ViiV Healthcare for providing some of these images. We sourced many others from ViiV Healthcare and Shutterstock’s HIV in View collections.
Where applicable, we have carefully selected images that reflect the diversity of people living with HIV. Some photos are stock images available for public use without attribution, and their inclusion does not imply any information about HIV status.
Acknowledgements
The initial development of this website was funded by:
- ViiV Healthcare: a global specialist HIV company
- Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS): a leading research centre exploring the social dimensions of sexuality, gender, health, and human relationships
ViiV Healthcare have no ongoing role in funding, developing, or reviewing the website or its content.
We are deeply grateful for the contributions of people living with HIV, who provided invaluable feedback and advice on the website’s content, structure, and design. Special thanks to our partners:
- National Association of People with HIV Australia (NAPWHA)
- Living Positive Victoria
- Positive Life NSW
- Queensland Positive People
Finally, thank you to everyone who supported this project by helping create content, source images, and refine the PozQoL website. Your contributions have made this resource possible.
Video transcripts
‘Welcome to the PozQoL Website’ with Associate Professor Graham Brown, one of the PozQoL Project‘s lead investigators
Hi! Welcome to the PozQoL Website.
I’m Graham Brown, one of investigators of the PozQoL Study.
PozQoL is a short, validated scale to measure changes in quality of life of people living with HIV.
PozQoL is actually a collaboration of community, research, and the health sector. We set out to develop a short, freely available scale that could be easily incorporated into day-to-day practice of health services, community and peer programs, and in research.
On this website you’ll find the scale itself in a range of different languages. You’ll also find details about how we developed the scale, the reliability and validity testing, where we have trialled its use in practice, as well as guides on how to use PozQoL.
We hope you find PozQoL really useful and we look forward to hearing about your experience with it.
Thanks!
‘ViiV Healthcare on supporting the PozQoL Project’ with Dr Duncan Short, Director of Global Implementation Science at ViiV Healthcare
Hi! I’m Duncan Short from ViiV Healthcare.
Improving the quality of life of people living with HIV is a fundamental driver of our company. And our support of the development and testing of the PozQoL is an important example of this.
ViiV have been involved from the outset. And we’re proud to have supported La Trobe University to lead this initiative — to help clinicians and support workers to assess and understand the needs of people living with HIV.
We’re also delighted to be able to support the development of this website that brings together in one place all of the resources associated with the PozQoL. To make it easier for different healthcare organisations, researchers, community workers, to access and understand what the PozQoL can offer and how it can be implemented.
We really hope you find this website useful, as we all work to improve the lives of those living with HIV.
Thank you.