By Positive Life NSW|2022-01-25T13:36:44+11:0010 January 2022|Categories: Blog+, Health, Mental Health, Talkabout|Tags: #200 – December 2021, COVID-19, HIV stigma, In My Own Words, workplace stigma|
Four years after being diagnosed with HIV, Benny shares his experience of recovering from COVID-19.
By Positive Life NSW|2022-02-22T15:46:08+11:0028 October 2021|Tags: HIV stigma, HIV/AIDS|
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 [...]
By Positive Life NSW|2022-02-22T15:45:38+11:0028 October 2021|Tags: HIV stigma, HIV transmission, TasP|
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 [...]
By Positive Life NSW|2022-02-22T15:45:15+11:0028 October 2021|Tags: hidden in plain sight, HIV stigma|
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 [...]
By Guest|2021-12-23T17:01:04+11:0018 December 2020|Categories: Blog+, Health, Mental Health, Opinion, Talkabout, Women's Health|Tags: #192 – March 2019, HIV discrimination, HIV stigma, women living with HIV|
I am Angel and I am from the southern part of Africa. I am 39 years old and this is my story.
By Guest|2021-03-12T22:06:57+11:0027 February 2020|Categories: Blog+, Opinion|Tags: AIDS-defining illness, combination anti-retroviral therapy (cART), early 90s, HIV stigma, late 80s, personal stories, PrEP, social support, TasP, U=U, undetectable viral load (UVL)|
I have been living with HIV for over 22 years, five of which I was unaware I was positive.
By Liz Sutherland|2021-10-06T09:45:45+11:003 July 2019|Categories: Blog+, Mental Health, Opinion|Tags: consent, criminalising HIV, HIV and disclosure, HIV stigma, NSW Public Health Act, PrEP, reasonable precautions, sex positive generation|
What does consent mean? Is consent always an enthusiastic ‘yes’, or is it sometimes the absence of a ‘no’?
By Sebastian|2021-09-30T15:41:50+10:008 May 2019|Categories: Blog+, Opinion|Tags: HIV and disclosure, HIV stigma, personal stories|
I sero-converted back in 2003 and was very clear in my own mind, I didn’t want to be defined by HIV.
By Positive Life NSW|2021-12-23T15:52:18+11:0015 December 2018|Categories: Blog+, Health, Mental Health, Opinion, Talkabout, Treatments|Tags: #191 – December 2018, HIV discrimination, HIV stigma, Matthew Hall, mid to late 90s|
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.
By Positive Life NSW|2021-12-23T15:54:22+11:0015 December 2018|Categories: Advocacy, Blog+, Health, Mental Health, Opinion, Talkabout|Tags: #191 – December 2018, Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds, HIV discrimination, HIV stigma|
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.