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- namlife : an introduction
- Just found out you're HIV-positive?
- 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
- Mental and emotional wellbeing
- 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.
20 years and counting
Taken From: HIV, the basics
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...
