Relationships and feelings

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  The best of friends

  Gus Cairns explores how friends can be good (and sometimes bad) for your health. ...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  Walking back to happiness

  People with HIV, as endless studies attest, have higher rates of depression, addictions and other mental health problems than the general population. But even if we aren’t depressed,...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  Love is a danger

  American researchers have reported that gay men in the US are more likely to contract HIV from their main sexual partner than from casual sex.  What are the...

  From:HIV treatment update

Relationships and feelings in your own words

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  Learning to believe in my own future

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  From:In your own words

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  HIV and having a family

  I am a white South African man, 36 years old. I have been living with HIV for +/- 11 years now. I want to tell...

  From:In your own words

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  Finding out

  The day was 9th of November, 2009; I was having my college lesson on the concepts of computer script languages – what a day it...

  From:In your own words

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  Anger - I was furious

  I wasn’t really surprised when I found out I had HIV, after all I went to have an HIV test because I had all the...

  From:In your own words

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  The sex police

  I met Amy through a friend – a friend who knew my HIV status. We got on really well and she asked if I wanted...

  From:In your own words

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  Losing Billy

  1980When I first met Billy, I was working behind the bar at the Euston Tavern in Kings Cross. Billy had been staring across the bar...

  From:In your own words

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  'Russ, not Russ who is HIV-positive'

  It is about nine years since I was told I was HIV-positive and it is almost the same amount of time since I met my partner,...

  From:In your own words

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  Preventing mother-to-child transmission

  I found out about my HIV status when I was 16 weeks pregnant. After I had an HIV test, I had counselling with the midwife....

  From:In your own words

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  Grateful? I don't think so

  “You must be so grateful that your partner agreed to stay with you despite the fact that you have, you know, AIDS,” said a particularly...

  From:In your own words

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  HIV support in Manchester

  I was diagnosed HIV-positive in the 1990s. My husband had been ill for the previous 18 months, but not with anything they could put a...

  From:In your own words

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  Will you marry me?

  Nothing can prepare you for finding out you have HIV. My first question was: "How long have I got to live?" I shook and cried. I...

  From:In your own words

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  Telling people

  The lunchtime after finding out I had HIV, I called a colleague who was also a close friend. I had planned just to make sure...

  From:In your own words

Relationships and feelings news from aidsmap

• For study participants, PrEP was an opportunity to save their relationship

  Seeking to understand why adherence to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) was extremely high in a study of serodiscordant couples, qualitative researchers have found that trial participants saw PrEP as a way they could preserve their relationship despite the pressures created ...

  30 January 2012 | Roger Pebody

• Serodiscordant relationships for Africans in the UK often marked by uncertainty and disempowerment

  African people in the UK who are involved in a serodiscordant relationship (where one person has HIV and the other does not) have a wide range of experiences, according to a new study from Sigma Research. Nonetheless, two recurrent ...

  25 November 2011 | Roger Pebody

• Couples often disagree on what they’ve told each other, study finds

  A US study on heterosexual couples at high risk of HIV finds that individuals’ interpretation of their relationship, their reporting of behaviour within the relationship and, especially, their recollection of whether they’ve disclosed sexual risks differ substantially between men ...

  22 September 2011 | Gus Cairns

• The spirit is willing, but... sex in the HIV-positive over-50s

  Although the average age of the HIV-positive population is increasing, in both richer and poorer countries, and though sex between older people has often been cited as a possible risk factor for HIV, there has been surprisingly little investigation ...

  16 September 2011 | Gus Cairns

• Unprotected sex eight times more common in serious relationships than casual ones, US gay youth study finds

  The strongest single predictor of not using condoms in anal sex in a group of young US gay men was that the relationship was regarded as ‘serious’, a study has found. Unprotected sex was eight times more likely in ...

  26 August 2011 | Gus Cairns

• Couple-based counselling reduces HIV risk behaviour in drug-using couples

  Couple-based risk counselling reduces rates of unprotected sex in HIV-negative drug-using couples, investigators from New York report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. Results of the study also showed that the counselling had ...

  10 July 2011 | Michael Carter

• Having older sexual partners increases HIV risk for younger gay men

  Sex with older partners is associated with a significantly increased risk of HIV infection for younger gay men, and other men who have sex with men (MSM), investigators from North Carolina report in the online edition ...

  06 April 2010 | Michael Carter

• HIV associated with poorer sexual function for women

  Sexual function is poorer in HIV-positive women than in women who are HIV-negative, US investigators report in a study published in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. For women with HIV, ...

  03 March 2010 | Michael Carter

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Relationships and feelings news selected from other sources

• Odd Blood: Serodiscordancy, or, Life With an HIV-Positive Partner

  Chad, my boyfriend, types to me from the Hyatt on New Jersey Avenue, "I am hiv positive." We study the screen together, 1426 miles apart. The cursor of my chat window blinks for me. I'm not stunned, or even much scared, really; definitely not sickened, repulsed.

  05 April 2012 | The Atlantic

• KENYA: Better training needed for counsellors of HIV-discordant couples

  The Kenyan government has issued guidelines on counselling for HIV-discordant couples, but many counsellors in smaller, rural health centres remain untrained.

  05 April 2012 | IRIN Plus News

• China: Marriage invalid due to concealment of AIDS

  The People's Court of Qingyang District in Sichuan province put an end to the marriage of Zhang Yun and Li Shi (not real names). Zhang never suspected her husband of keeping a big secret from her.

  06 March 2012 | China Daily

• The Dating Game

  The best pickup spots... when and how to disclose... the dates they won’t soon forget. Four people with HIV kiss and tell.

  06 February 2012 | The Positive Side

• Polygamy and HIV prevention: Uganda’s challenge

  Traditional Ugandan culture has always valued polygamy and although the country is predominantly Christian and thereby favours monogamous marriages, the traditional culture has not died out creating a challenge in the effort to prevent HIV.

  03 February 2012 | Key Correspondents

• Australia: Husband betrayed by wife's AIDS

  A MAN whose bride did not tell him she had AIDS has lost a battle to have his marriage declared void. The case is an Australian first.

  02 December 2011 | News.com.au

• Uganda: Take that HIV test with your partner

  Uganda is choking with absolute increases in the number of new HIV infections. This calls for a critical look at why these new infections are occurring.

  02 December 2011 | New Vision

• Sexual and Reproductive Health for young HIV positive adolescents

  This manual gives guidance and direction to healthcare workers who recognise that sexual and reproductive health is a critical component of adolescent service provision.

  23 August 2011 | Anova Health Institute

• I haven't given up, I've taken charge - one man's story of taking HIV meds for prevention

  Recently, I was surprised to learn that I had allegedly “given up on gay men.” According to Michael Weinstein, president and founder of the so-called “AIDS Healthcare Foundation,” I now consider the lives of gay men, including my own, “disposable.” What great crime have I committed to deserve Mr. Weinstein’s condemnation?

  02 August 2011 | Positively Aware

• India: Matrimonial meet for people living with HIV

  The event provides a platform for people with HIV to find a life partner, community, love and happiness.

  30 July 2011 | Times of India

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