By Guest|2021-03-12T21:54:18+11:0025 March 2020|Categories: Blog+, Opinion|Tags: personal stories, Sydney Mardi Gras Parade|
I have finally marched in the Sydney Mardi Gras Parade! I always thought I would someday - and now I have.
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 'Steve'|2022-04-12T08:30:15+10:0017 September 2019|Categories: Blog+, Housing|Tags: Family and Community Services (FACS), methamphetamines, personal stories, sero-discordant relationship|
Life can sure throw some curve balls at you but as the saying goes, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
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 Speakers Bureau|2020-12-04T09:58:12+11:0017 April 2018|Categories: Blog+, Positive Speakers Bureau|Tags: HIV prevention, HIV stigma, personal stories, resilience|
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 [...]
By Positive Speakers Bureau|2021-09-30T18:56:48+10:0015 December 2017|Categories: Blog+, Positive Speakers Bureau|Tags: AIDS-defining illness, Grim Reaper, personal stories, world AIDS day|
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.
By Positive Speakers Bureau|2021-04-08T19:19:02+10:001 April 2017|Categories: Blog+, Positive Speakers Bureau|Tags: community dispensing, HIV medication, local pharmacy, personal stories|
Getting my HIV medication from my local pharmacy, is convenient, easy and fast.
By David|2021-09-27T16:12:52+10:0021 March 2017|Categories: Blog+, Communications|Tags: HIV and travel, HIV Associated Neurocognitive Disorder (HAND), HIV testing, personal stories|
What happened next, after David was diagnosed with HIV while on a backpacking holiday.
By Positive Life NSW|2021-01-18T09:28:06+11:0019 January 2017|Tags: personal stories|
Poz Lite is our annual printed magazine. It is a compilation of the previous year's most popular articles. It features a selction of articles by HIV + community members. Click on the covers to [...]
By Guest|2021-02-06T13:51:32+11:001 December 2015|Categories: Blog+, Communications|Tags: personal stories|
Craig Cooper and David Cooper (no relation) were colleagues in the HIV sector in NSW.