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25.01.2022 "I need to tell you that I'm undetectable... I have been for many years... very fit and healthy. Just want you to know :)"
25.01.2022 "My heart skipped a beat. It was now or never."
24.01.2022 "Ever since coming out with it, Ive started to heal. I wish I had started that healing process 20 years earlier. I wish I had talked to people about it. Keeping that secret was pointless and sad and I feel for myself when I look back and see that younger person."
23.01.2022 She goes, "OK you have HIV, so what?" which is really not what I expected! And then looks over at my dad and says "Did you hear what he said?" and my dad said "Yeah I heard, and I share the same sentiments as you, he has HIV, so what!"
23.01.2022 "My favourite moment was during a question and answer exercise I did in my 1st proper session about how you can contract HIV. One boy had obviously been listening to my story as he yelled out 'EX BOYFRIENDS'."
22.01.2022 Telling my parents I have HIV was absolutely one of the scariest things Ive done in my life.
21.01.2022 "Yes, it can be scary to reveal your status, but only because of the fear we impose on ourselves. We often transfer this fear to the people we tell, and sometimes unnecessarily."
20.01.2022 "I am HIV positive and have been for a few years."
20.01.2022 "I loved and respected these women. Lying to them made me hate myself. So, after talking it over with my partner, I decided to bite the bullet and tell them my secret."
18.01.2022 My heart skipped a beat. It was now or never.
18.01.2022 Reduced stigma = Power of Disclosure.... Ending HIV https://www.gaytimes.co.uk//prince-harry-says-mother-dian/
18.01.2022 "I feel so much strength and energy and confidence. Ok, I had done it!"
18.01.2022 "Telling my parents I have HIV was absolutely one of the scariest things Ive done in my life.
18.01.2022 "I continue to motivate people to disclose their status, because this is life, and life is too amazing to be negative."
17.01.2022 An important community forum is being held next Tuesday, May 24th, in Sydney. This forum will look at proposed changes to the Public Health Act. These changes have the potential to affect HIV disclosure laws in NSW. Check out the link below for more information.
16.01.2022 "In one day I told my parents, I told my friends, I told my job, I set up a YouTube site and decided that this illness can help me in a way to get a stronger mind by documenting how I felt in an open forum."
16.01.2022 "When a famous person comes out as HIV-positive, the story is not just about them, and its not just about HIV. It's also about the millions of people living with HIV." - article by Paul Kidd
15.01.2022 "I sought after some support from friends and family and organisations as well, to actually get better informed, to actually sit down in front of my family and tell them exactly what I had."
15.01.2022 "25 years later, that disclosure of HIV to be specific, is always unpredictable, always exciting, sometimes scary but I will never stop doing it."
15.01.2022 Ever since coming out with it, Ive started to heal. I wish I had started that healing process 20 years earlier. I wish I had talked to people about it. Keeping that secret was pointless and sad and I feel for myself when I look back and see that younger person.
13.01.2022 "I have absolutely no problem with you having HIV. My friend passed away from AIDS a few years ago. I understand how youre feeling". I could not believe my ears. Are you kidding me, did he just say he didnt have an issue?
10.01.2022 I wasnt told I was HIV positive until I was 13 years old and when I was told, it shattered my self-perception. When you are a teenager you have a certain idea of who you are and youre trying to figure it out and being told at that age was heartbreaking.
10.01.2022 'Are you clean? Well you can interpret that question any way you want. I knew what he was meaning to say but I just answered him as if hed asked Have you had a shower? or Are you physically clean? and so I said Yes I am.'
09.01.2022 Move along, nothing to shame here.
07.01.2022 #AIDS2016 has now come to an end and the Disclosure Sofa functioned as well as we could have hoped. We've had the honour to record about 30 videos of HIV disclosure from around the world. I have to do some editing but will start feeding this content out in the next week or so. Thanks to those brave souls who shared with me their experience, and to those who helped out at the booth. Bye South Africa!
06.01.2022 Our first Disclosure Sofa is live at the HHARD Conference in Sydney!
05.01.2022 "I was being open and honest about who I was and I was being accepted for it. The fact that there were feelings at some level made the whole situation extra amazing."
03.01.2022 "Perhaps the problem with disclosure was me, not everyone else. I kept thinking that the world was going to end when I told anyone. I dont know if Ive ever experienced that level of fear before. It was crippling. Heart beating fast, shallow breathing, but it was all me. I judged myself."
02.01.2022 "Once I did disclose my status to him, I said it really quickly and hung up, and then I would not answer his phone call because in my mind Im thinking he would never want to date me, he dont want to have anything to do with me."
01.01.2022 But I cant bring myself to utter those words because I know its going to shatter their world. I know it, and it really hurts like hell. from the collection Blood Ties, edited by Salli Trathen
01.01.2022 "I was diagnosed in Sydney with HIV in June 1997. I was in Australia as a recent immigrant. At the time I was working as a RN in an Intensive Care Unit in Sydney."
