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Generations of HIV

Jonathan diagnosed in 1982: “It’s a terminal diagnosis, there is nothing that they can do for me and there will be palliative care. And I’m 33.”

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Matthew diagnosed in 1998: “When people say ‘How did you get HIV?’, the honest answer is I don’t know.”

Matthew Hodson is 52 and the executive director of NAM aidsmap, the charity which changes lives by sharing news and treatment information about...
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Back from the brink: Rebecca Tallon de Havilland on her life with HIV

Rebecca de Havilland has been living with HIV since the mid-1980s, including near-death experiences when she took herself off medication and sunk...
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Ian diagnosed in 1998: “It has affected relationships – if you say you’re HIV positive they kind of run away…”

Ian Fincher is 44 and works in theatreland in the West End – and has a number of transdermal implants and piercings. “I was...
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Filippo diagnosed in 2011: “I was 20 years old and it felt like the world was crumbling beneath my feet.”

Filippo Gafaro Barrera is 28 and from Italy. He appears on Sky News as a guest commentator where he recently discussed being HIV positive and...
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Neil diagnosed in 2005: “I’d sort of written off a long-term partner as something that probably wouldn’t happen to me.”

Neil Currie is 45 and from Sheffield and works in computer technology. “After a one-night stand in 2005 I went to get...
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David Bridle diagnosed in 1994: “I realised, for the first time, that these drugs were actually working.”

David Bridle is managing editor of Boyz and has had HIV for over 25 years. Here he describes going on to combination...

Boyz

Generations of HIV

Jonathan diagnosed in 1982: “It’s a terminal diagnosis, there is nothing that they can do for me and there will be palliative care. And I’m 33.”

Matthew diagnosed in 1998: “When people say ‘How did you get HIV?’, the honest answer is I don’t know.”

Back from the brink: Rebecca Tallon de Havilland on her life with HIV

Ian diagnosed in 1998: “It has affected relationships – if you say you’re HIV positive they kind of run away…”

Filippo diagnosed in 2011: “I was 20 years old and it felt like the world was crumbling beneath my feet.”

Neil diagnosed in 2005: “I’d sort of written off a long-term partner as something that probably wouldn’t happen to me.”

David Bridle diagnosed in 1994: “I realised, for the first time, that these drugs were actually working.”