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.
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.
I was diagnosed with HIV during the broadcasting of the hysterical Grim Reaper campaign in 1987, at eighteen years old.
This report highlights and confirms that HIV stigma and discrimination is a daily reality for people living with HIV.
U=U is a HIV awareness campaign that refers to the reality that if you have an undetectable viral load (in Australia, this is less than 20 copies of the HIV virus per millilitre of [...]
Twenty four years ago, on 1 December 1994, Positive Life NSW launched the Positive Speakers’ Bureau (PSB). The program is still running strong today, with a passionate team of trained members of the community [...]
After experiencing the worst HIV discrimination in a healthcare setting, Zainab decided she’d rather die.
Today it is easier than ever to ‘slip through the cracks’.
Once you become poz, then what? Do you stop having sex, be unhappy, overthink, not go out, feel fearful and anxious?
Blaming rejection on your sero-status or HIV stigma is pointless and disempowering.
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