COVID-19 and the dialogue around HIV
Coronavirus (COVID-19) hasn’t been a slow time for me. I’ve been busier than I’ve ever been; both at work and in my personal life.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) hasn’t been a slow time for me. I’ve been busier than I’ve ever been; both at work and in my personal life.
I’m on a three-week cruise with a friend out of Sydney. Reports of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in countries other than China are becoming widespread.
Today I visited a local supermarket to pick up some groceries. It was eerie. People were panic-ridden, wore masks, and looked at each other with suspicion and fear.
We are the survivors of the HIV/AIDS epidemic that started in Australia in the early 1980s, and there are some similarities between it and the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Five years after a HIV diagnosis, Nathan found the love and fulfilment he was looking for.
Now that I am a ‘senior’, my toiletries bag now rattles when I go overseas, with bottles of this and that and the other.
When I was diagnosed with HIV in 1997, apart from the shock and fear and my whole life being turned upside down, I had to deal with the reality the programs and services were largely focused on men.
I am Angel and I am from the southern part of Africa. I am 39 years old and this is my story.
If a confident, articulate person like me has had so much hesitation and struggle around living with HIV, then how must it be for others?
Women living with HIV are not seen as a priority group for contracting HIV, so we are not routinely tested and don’t receive targeted education for women.