My life as a sole parent living with HIV during COVID-19
I am a woman living with HIV and a busy mother of three young boys under ten years old. One of my children is also living with HIV. In this time of Coronavirus, our [...]
I am a woman living with HIV and a busy mother of three young boys under ten years old. One of my children is also living with HIV. In this time of Coronavirus, our [...]
A typical week living under coronavirus or COVID-19. I see it like a mathematical equation. X plus Y equals M. X being the constant. For me these constants are things like living with HIV, [...]
Coronavirus (COVID-19) hasn’t been a slow time for me. Like others, I haven’t been able to be still – I’ve been busier than I’ve ever been; both at work and in my personal life [...]
This is not the first pandemic where I am living with HIV. I was surprised to realise it is my fourth pandemic (not including HIV/AIDS). In this context, despite its rapid spread around the [...]
The hot season in Thailand is just that; really hot, too hot to be out and about. It’s 2010, Saturday morning and I am looking around my apartment for ways to keep myself amused [...]
The temperate and rainy climate that descended on Christmas day in 2019, allowed a nation to slightly lower our shoulders and eased a little tension, given a long drought and gut-wrenching fires with accompanied [...]
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. Both were utterly unexpected, both have [...]
I am Henry*, a 38-year-old gay Malaysian man who is still in the process of moving permanently to Australia. As a man living with HIV, I’ve experienced a few extra hurdles throughout this venture [...]
My name is 'Nathan' and I'm in my early 30s. When I was diagnosed with HIV while I was living in Kuala Lumpur, away from Australia and my familiar friends and life, this experience [...]
Now that I am a ‘senior’, I have other conditions as well as HIV, so when I travel I need lots of other ‘additives’ for these. So my toiletries bag now positively bulges and [...]