Everything you need to know about living with HIV, including medical advice, help with sex and relationships, and mental health.
Here is the the video for our new campaign tackling HIV stigma - Living With HIV Read more
Do you know what viral load is? Do you know what 'HIV-undetectable' means? Read more
I was asked to talk about my first time having sex after I was diagnosed and what that was like for me. I thought about it and what got me the most was that I couldn’t really remember. Read more
New data released by Public Health England showed that HIV diagnoses across the country had fallen by 18%. Confined to just gay and bisexual men, the drop was 21%; narrow it even further to just gay and bisexual men in London and it was 29%. Read more
I have been living with HIV for more than ten years and you might say I am a bit of an HIV old-timer. Read more
A year ago I sat in a meeting with officials from Public Health England as they announced that someone with HIV, with prompt access to treatment, had the same life expectancy as someone who was uninfected. Read more
The Brexit question has opened questions for people living with HIV, perhaps the most important questions are yet to be answered. Read more
How safe is safe enough? Read more
The doctor divides his working week across his three roles: HIV Consultant, Medical Director at the Terrence Higgins Trust, and National LGBT Advisor at NHS England. Read more
Just because someone is diagnosed as HIV-positive, it doesn’t mean they stop taking care of their sexual health. Read more
How was your COVID lockdown? I managed to reach the end of mine without baking bread, shaving my hair or posting a nude. Go me! Read more
We spoke with 8 gay and bi men living with HIV about their year, how they coped with lockdowns and navigated the global pandemic... Read more
Self-esteem (or self-worth) is basically the opinion you have about yourself. It is about how valuable you think you are, and whether you feel you have a purpose. It is also about being confident, knowing your strengths and weaknesses and being able to be self-critical without feeling de-valued. Read more
It’s not uncommon for gay and bisexual men to experience mental health issues. In fact one-in-three of us will face some sort of mental health issue. Read more
Being told you have HIV can at first seem like it’s too much to deal with, but it’s not. Read more
When you have HIV, your body is in a constant fight against the virus and so you may have some symptoms similar to those you get when your body fights any other virus. Read more
When HIV gets into your blood stream, the virus attaches to and then enters specific white blood cells in your body known as CD4 cells Read more
Going public with my HIV diagnosis, I expected to lose everyone, but the reality couldn’t have been more different. Read more
Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP talks with Hadley Stewart about his HIV diagnosis, HIV stigma and the global pandemic. Read more
What’s the difference between hepatitis A, B and C? How can they affect you? And how can you treat them? Read more
PrEP has made a huge impact on the gay community – something the survey proves. From reducing fear around HIV to people having more honest conversations about their status, PrEP is altering gay men’s sex and personal lives. But how has this impacted the people already living with HIV? Read more
A break-up in Edinburgh and my dad dying of cancer back home in the Liverpool area. At the end of August 2011, I had met this amazing and beautiful guy who lived in Paris, and we fell in love within days. Read more
Recent statistics show that gay men living with HIV are twice as likely to die by suicide than HIV-negative men. Read more