Positive Life NSW

Greg Page reflects on what leads him to donate an hour of his time each week to massaging HIV+ clients. Once a week I do a volunteer massage for HIV+ patients. As a trained massage therapist with over five years of experience, I'm constantly asked the same question by my clients, who are almost invariably middle-aged men: "Are you one of us?" By which they actually mean, "Are you HIV positive too?"

A team of French investigators has found that people who are taking an HIV treatment combination that includes Nevirapine (Viramune) are more likely to achieve a viral load of zero than people taking a combination that includes Efavirenz (Sustiva, also in the combination pill Atripla). Report by Jae Condon

Mia Dawson has been living with HIV for 16 years. She looks at the resources and sites she has found to be the most useful when accessing information on treatments for women with HIV.

I was fortunate to be able to attend the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna in July thanks to sponsorship from Napwa. The range and amount of creative thinking addressing every issue around HIV was amazing and the good work of tens of thousands of people was humbling. Neil McKellar Stewart is the HIV Health Maintenance Officer at ACON Northern Rivers in Lismore.

Taking advantage of the PBS Safety Net Scheme can make a big difference to your yearly expenditure on medication. If you are in a relationship (de facto couple), you can reach the PBS Safety Net threshold much sooner. Lance Feeney unpacks the PBS Safety Net.

David looks back on his experience of managing multiple health problems and his recent success with a new healthcare plan that includes omega-3 fish oil.

A selection of latest HIV news from around the globe.