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Are you clean?

Positive Living article • David Menadue • 26 February 2010
Cover image - PL Mar 2010

It has become a favourite on online dating sites as the ‘polite’ way to ask about HIV status. Just for the record, it is not polite. It is both stigmatising and discriminatory.

Twenty five years on, do we still suffer stigma and discrimination? David Menadue finds that, in some areas particularly, we still do. read more »

Tags: living with HIV, disclosure, discrimination, relationships, stigma

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Launch of the NAPWA Criminalisation Monograph

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