Telling people you have HIV

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  Saving face: GMFA's sexual health messaging service

  Gay men’s health charity, GMFA, is launching a new service to make telling sexual partners about STIs less daunting. Gus Cairns investigates. ...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  The beginning of change: the 2010 CHIVA summer camp

  Following on from our issue looking at young people, in October, guest writer Bakita Kasadha talks to the organisers and participants in the UK’s summer camp for teenagers...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  Will a long life be a good one?

  People with HIV are now living into old age – an old age many regard with fear, as Lisa Power from the Terrence Higgins Trust finds...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  Whose fear is it anyway? People with HIV and dentists

  People with HIV are still failing to access good dental care, even though it’s in their interest. Do they assume dentists will still have issues treating them?...

  From:HIV treatment update

Telling people you have HIV in your own words

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  Surviving isolation and abuse

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  From:In your own words

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  A life full of laughs and love

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  From:In your own words

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  Life on HIV treatment – a personal perspective

  I’ve been taking HIV treatment for ten years – that's longer than the average life expectancy of someone with HIV when I was diagnosed back in 1991. I’ve...

  From:In your own words

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  An emotional rollercoaster

  If someone would have told me that I would be alive 18 years after my HIV diagnosis I would not have believed them. As I...

  From:In your own words

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  Finding support

  I found out I had HIV in June 2005. My world just fell apart. I didn’t know that I needed an HIV test, but the...

  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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  The bus of doom

  I've recently read the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman (which, if you haven't already read, I highly recommend). In this theological novel disguised...

  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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  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

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  The luxury of hypochondriacs

  That anxious look I get from loved ones is very hard to take, and all I want to do is reassure them that everything will...

  From:In your own words

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  My hero!

  Sex. It’s messy, fraught with all sorts of psychological problems and yes, it’s obviously what got me into this whole predicament in the first place....

  From:In your own words

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  Bored and horny

  It’s Sunday afternoon and it’s raining. I’m bored and horny. However, I’ve got £20 left over from the night before and this will be enough...

  From:In your own words

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  It takes two to tango - my family and diagnosis

  Let me tell you about telling some family members that I have HIV. I called my brother the night I was diagnosed. I wanted to tell him...

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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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  Change of direction

  I moved to Manchester with my partner to start a course in nursing with the intention of becoming a midwife. Initially everything was peachy. But...

  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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  I was diagnosed in 1989

  I was diagnosed HIV-positive in 1989 when I was 16 years old. Now I’m living with the virus for 21 years. I have a 15-month-old cute baby...

  From:In your own words

Telling people you have HIV 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

• One in five refusing ART in Soweto, even when in need

  One in five newly diagnosed ART eligible adults attending the Zazi Testing Center, Perinatal HIV Research Unit (PHRU) in Soweto, South Africa refused to start free ART, provided onsite, within two months of diagnosis. Ingrid T. Katz and colleagues reported ...

  22 September 2011 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Media campaign on disclosure and stigma changes gay men’s attitudes

  A Canadian campaign which asked gay men “If you were rejected every time you disclosed, would you?” appears to have raised men’s understanding of the dilemmas which men with HIV face. The campaign also succeeded in reducing the number ...

  21 September 2011 | Roger Pebody

• The safety spectrum: gay men use many ways to moderate their sexual risk

  The vast majority of gay men, HIV-positive and negative, make some effort to moderate their risk of transmitting or acquiring HIV, a large Australian study finds. Dr Limin Mao of the University of New South Wales in Australia, speaking at the ...

  18 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

• Viral load increasingly features in safer-sex discussion and decisions by HIV-positive gay men and their partners

  A Dutch study presented at the Tenth AIDS Impact conference this week showed that HIV-positive gay men are increasingly taking viral load into account when it comes to deciding whether to use a condom during sex. Another study from the USA ...

  15 September 2011 | Gus Cairns

• Canadian study finds criminalisation confusion "chills" open and honest discussion of HIV risk-taking

  The lack of clarity over when a person with HIV has a legal obligation to disclose their HIV-positive status to a sexual partner is resulting in "anxiety, confusion and contradictory HIV counselling advice," according to a new study on ...

  23 August 2011 | Edwin J. Bernard

• High levels of mental distress, unprotected sex, needle sharing, unmet prevention needs found among HIV-infected patients in St Petersburg

  Risky sex and drug use are common among HIV-positive people in Russia, investigators report in AIDS and Behavior. Discrimination was a common experience, and there was a high prevalence of depression and anxiety. “Policies and public health programs ...

  12 May 2011 | Michael Carter

• Majority of US gay men support HIV transmission laws

  Two-thirds of US gay men believe that it should be illegal for an HIV-positive man to have unprotected anal sex without disclosure, investigators report in the October edition of AIDS Care. “Believing that it should be illegal was associated with ...

  21 September 2010 | Michael Carter

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Telling people you have HIV news selected from other sources

• Chinese province may have new rule on HIV disclosure

  HIV-positive men and women in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region may soon be required by law to tell partners their status the moment their test results are known. 

  07 February 2012 | AsiaOne

• 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

• Do people with HIV have to tell their sex partners? Canadian Supreme Court to decide

  Canada's highest court is set to hear arguments over whether it's a crime for people with HIV to keep their condition from their sexual partners if the risk of transmission is low. 

  05 February 2012 | City News

• Sex Without HIV Disclosure: Should It Remain a Crime?

  Why the Canadian Supreme Court is about to hear public health experts say it's time to soften the law. A special report.

  12 January 2012 | The Tyee

• Julio Montaner: Hiding HIV status shouldn't mean jail time

  Canadians living with HIV/AIDS should no longer face a possible prison sentence for failing to disclose their HIV status to sexual partners, says an acclaimed Canadian doctor.

  20 December 2011 | Vancouver Sun

• 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

• Comment: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell about HIV status

  Michael Lucas, the gay porn producer, offers a new solution to cutting HIV rates and stigma around the condition.

  30 September 2011 | Pink News

• Greg Louganis keeps on 'diving' against HIV/AIDS -

  Despite all of the medical advances over the past 30 years in the battle against HIV-AIDS, or perhaps because of them, Greg Louganis is still worried for the younger generation. Very worried, in fact.

  24 August 2011 | Windy City Times

• 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

• Florida court holds HIV disclosure law only impacts heterosexuals

  An appellate court in Florida has ruled that the state’s HIV disclosure law can only be used to charge heterosexuals, saying that the law does not apply in the case of a woman accused of having sex with another woman but failing to disclose her HIV-positive status.

  22 August 2011 | Michigan Messenger

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