HIV stigma, alive and deadly
“Today, we know HIV doesn’t kill us, but stigma and discrimination do have a major impact on our health and wellbeing.”
“Today, we know HIV doesn’t kill us, but stigma and discrimination do have a major impact on our health and wellbeing.”
“HIV-positive trans women have only ever existed as an ‘other’; an invisible subset of gay. This has been the case for years.”
Shigella can be spread “through sexual contact such as rimming, by getting infected faeces on your fingers and then touching your mouth or by putting contaminated objects in your mouth”
The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges’, and the need to combine different perspectives couldn’t be more crucial.
Today the division between HIV positive, negative, or unknown has transformed to a gradual erasure of the ‘sero-divide’ in sexual relationships for people living with HIV.
“Positive Life believes the ownership and confidentiality of health data must remain under our full control as people living with HIV.”
“The division between HIV-positive and negative has transformed with the gradual erasure of the sero-divide in sexual relationships for all of us as lovers, friends, and f*ck buddies”
Letting your partners know they might need to get tested empowers them to take care of their own health.
Next month bears and their admirers are invited to hear ‘The Healthy Bear’ speak on the wellbeing of bears, their partners, and their friends.
New prevention and treatment methods for HIV have opened the doors to new pleasures and risks.