Social connection can make all the difference
Positive Life offers ways to build and develop your friendship networks to lessen the effects of HIV stigma.
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July 2022
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January 2022
When I contracted COVID-19
Four years after being diagnosed with HIV, Benny shares his experience of recovering from COVID-19.
28
October 2021
Silence = Death
Speak up about HIV! AIDS still kills People can live with HIV for many years without knowing. Whether it's fear of finding out or they just haven't had a HIV test, their treatment is [...]
28
October 2021
ZERO HIV
Why reach for Zero in 2019? Zero HIV risk People living with HIV in NSW on anti-retroviral treatment who have an undetectable viral load (UVL) have Zero risk of transmitting HIV to our sexual [...]
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October 2021
Hidden in Plain Sight
In 2020, more people than ever are living with HIV ‘hidden in plain sight’, and have been here all along since the beginning of the HIV epidemic including ‘emerging’ groups of heterosexual people, women [...]
18
December 2020
I experienced HIV stigma in hospital
I am Angel and I am from the southern part of Africa. I am 39 years old and this is my story.
27
February 2020
Communities make the difference to me
I have been living with HIV for over 22 years, five of which I was unaware I was positive.
3
July 2019
What makes consent, consent?
What does consent mean? Is consent always an enthusiastic ‘yes’, or is it sometimes the absence of a ‘no’?
8
May 2019
HIV Inside Out
I sero-converted back in 2003 and was very clear in my own mind, I didn’t want to be defined by HIV.
15
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.
