Watch the 'Living With HIV' video

Here is the the video for our new campaign tackling HIV stigma - Living With HIV

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Living With HIV: how stigma stops you getting a date

I’d been chatting to a guy from a dating app on and off for a couple of days and the subject of work comes up – now I usually don’t say exactly what I do for a living straight away, because I’m not spending my Sunday afternoon giving personal advice to everyone on Tinder, Grindr, Hornet, Scruff or Twitter (if you don’t think Twitter is a dating app then you’re just not doing it properly) – anyway in this instance I do tell him and we open a can worms…
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I don’t care if I never have sex with an HIV-negative guy ever again. This isn’t meant as some sort of inverted prejudice; I would never be so stupid as to turn someone down because of his HIV status. I just think it needs saying.
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