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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.
The sex police
Taken From: HIV and the law
I met Amy through a friend – a friend who knew my HIV status. We got on really well and she asked if I wanted to meet up again another time. I did, and so we met up again a couple of weeks later.We got on well again, and before long we were heading for the bedroom. I didn’t want to have to talk...
