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- namlife : an introduction
- Just found out you're HIV-positive?
- Work
- Having a relationship with an HIV-negative partner
- HIV, the basics
- Telling people you are HIV-positive
- Getting HIV treatment and care
- HIV treatment
- Taking your treatment - adherence
- Symptoms and illnesses
- Mother-to-baby transmission of HIV
- Complementary therapies
- End of life issues
- Sex
- Travel
- HIV and the law
- Side-effects
Stories
Your stories
Here are a selection of personal stories that readers have shared with us. The stories cover a huge range of experiences from different people living with HIV in the last 21 years. You may find that people talk about issues which you are unlikely to encounter now, but which have nevertheless been experiences of people who are living with HIV today.
They are honest accounts that give a sense of the journey that people start on when they are diagnosed with HIV - the highs and lows. They also testify to the huge advances in science and treatment.
They’re not meant to be examples of what you should do, they just give an idea of how people have coped with the realities of day-to-day life with HIV.
'Russ, not Russ who is HIV-positive'
Taken From: Having a relationship with an HIV-negative partner
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, Chris, and started a stable relationship. These statements seem to run in tandem but the paths between them have been anything but smooth. My story is about denial, emotional...
