Fear is not a motivator
Why fear is a very poor communicator in our COVID-19 messaging.
20
July 2021
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.
23
November 2018
HIV testing is for everyone!
Why HIV testing needs to be a part of everyone's sexual health, whatever sex you're having, whatever gender you are!
9
October 2018
Sharing the recognition with many HIV heroes
David Crawford recognised for three decades of providing service and care to people living with HIV.
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 health.
15
December 2017
Our changing conversations – the PSB two decades on
As a Positive Speakers Bureau (PSB) presenter of twenty one years for Positive Life NSW, I have been privileged to hear stories and see lives transform from bleak to hopeful, through a time of fear, illness death and anger.
30
June 2017
‘Aaron’
Today Aaron takes each day as it comes, and feels much more comfortable to talk about HIV with all his partners – HIV positive or negative. His straight forward approach in changing world is [...]
16
May 2016
Reactions to working in the HIV sector
Reactions I get when I mention to someone that I work in the HIV sector.
15
October 2015
A Long Road Forward
In those days, learning that you had contracted the ‘AIDS virus’ meant getting a death sentence.
15
October 2015
Intimacy in a positive world
Treatment as Prevention (or TasP) is used by people living with HIV to live healthier lives and reduce transmission of the virus.
