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Picking up your HIV meds has just become easier
The EMA is a new scheme that allows you to have your HIV medications delivered to your home, work, or a pharmacy of your choice. Read more
Genesis
Genesis means 'the beginning' and for Garry, the Genesis workshop was the beginning of a way forward from the initial shock of being diagnosed with HIV.
7 Mar
Talkabout March 2012
The first 2012 issue of Talkabout is out now, just in time for Mardi Gras with a cover story on being positive at the Mardi Gras party. In Everyday Life, a number of people with HIV share their experiences of being positive in the workplace. There are articles on the peer support programs Genesis and 729, a reflection on all the recent rain and floods in Bush Positive and Jane Bruning's account of attending a UNAIDS meeting in Geneva.
1 Mar
Positive Life's Mardi Gras booklet
Welcome to Sydney Mardi Gras from everyone at Positive Life NSW. Mardi Gras is a time for celebration but also reflection. I view this as an important time to reflect on where we as people living with HIV have come from and where we are today. The achievements are great and should be celebrated. However, we still have a long way to go.
28 Feb
Talkabout 2012
The January issue of Talkabout is out now, with several articles that have a historical theme. In Everyday Life, a number of people with HIV share their experiences of disclosure. There are articles on doing yoga to cope with neuropathy, an interview with Erasure singer Andy Bell and with activist Ross Duffin. Read it online or email editor@positivelife.org.au for a copy to be sent to you.
10 Jan
That niggling neuropathy!
Also known as 'sock and glove', neuropathy is something many HIV+ people live with. While there might not be a cure, Greg Page has some little tricks of his own to help that nagging discomfort magically disappear.
21 Dec
'A long and complicated story...'
Now in his mid-50s, Ross Duffin has been integrally involved in the politics of HIV/AIDS since news of the virus first broke in the early '80s. In this first part of a wide-ranging conversation, Ross speaks to Susan Ardill about his early days at ACON, the antibody-testing debate of the mid-1980s, the 'sero-divide' and the terrible years when the epidemic hit hard in Sydney.
19 Dec
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