Posts tagged Stigma

On the evening of December 1, 1988, the first ever World AIDS Day, hundreds of people packed into the Martin Place amphitheatre in Sydney for …

“We should reject any attempt to perversely use HTLV-1 as a vehicle to entrench sexual, casual or explicit racism in LGBTI communities.”

ASHM has highlighted Australia’s guidelines around on-demand PrEP while Thorne Harbour Health has released a video explaining the prevention strategy, following the recent HIV diagnosis of PrEP advocate Steve Spencer.

“To alleviate the concerns of PrEP users, there have only been several recorded cases of seroconversions while on PrEP out of the approximately 450,000 people using this preventative strategy, globally.”

“My experience living with HIV and working in the sector has shown me what we’re up against — a monolithic pharmaceutical industry that thrives on us swallowing pills for the rest of our lives.”

“Today, we know HIV doesn’t kill us, but stigma and discrimination do have a major impact on our health and wellbeing.”

An additional $1 million per year will go towards campaigns tackling HIV stigma and discrimination.

“I told [the doctor] my sexuality wasn’t just a t-shirt that I’ve put on and her response was, ‘That doesn’t make any sense… I used to treat you when you were little.'”

HIV cannot be transmitted via spit.

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.