In the Know: HIV, COVID-19 and the vaccine video
HIV, COVID-19 and the vaccine, a treatments and research evening for all people living with HIV in NSW
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February 2021
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February 2021
COVID-19 vaccines hub
COVID-19 vaccines hub for people living with and affected by HIV in NSW
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April 2019
We are warriors as we age with HIV!
As we near the finish line of the ambitious HIV Strategy in NSW to virtually eliminate HIV transmission, Positive Life asks people living with HIV (PLHIV) who are ageing with HIV what does the [...]
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December 2018
Breaking down stigma one barrier at a time
Matthew Hall was diagnosed with HIV as a 23-year-old in 1995. Given effective antiretroviral treatment was yet to become available, HIV was considered a death sentence at this time. Devasted by the news, Matt [...]
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December 2018
HIV Stigma, the Social Disease Pandemic
Treating someone differently based on their race, culture, language, ethnicity or national origin is never okay, yet is a daily reality for many of us living with HIV in Australia. When we asked culturally [...]
15
December 2018
Flashback to a time of stigma and fear
I was diagnosed with HIV during the broadcasting of the hysterical Grim Reaper campaign in 1987, at eighteen years old. My family based in southern NSW had no idea of my sexuality that I’d [...]
15
March 2018
Invisible no more!
Reflecting on my life in 1988 brings back some painful memories: the numbers of deaths from AIDS illnesses was starting to impact on the community and I was starting to fear for my own [...]
15
March 2018
Life after Vancouver
In 1996, I gave a paper at the XI International AIDS Conference, held in Vancouver. It was about the effective use of narrative to engage audiences with stories of positive people, but it could [...]
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March 2018
Best of times and worst of times
Indeed, the 1980s were like that. They were a peak time for ‘gay’ and ‘community’. They were also the time that we got to understand the HIV epidemic, and by the end of the [...]
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March 2018
The Middle Years
From where we stand now, the years from 1992, when the heady romanticism of ACT UP started to fizzle out and fracture, to late 1995, when early news of the success of combination therapy [...]
