Living with HIV

Living well with HIV/AIDS means more than taking care of your health. Managing relationships, preventing transmission of HIV to others, childbirth and pregnancy, and travelling with HIV are just some areas where being HIV positive presents special challenges.

Understanding the lived experience of positive people is a key role of NAPWA's Education Portfolio, helping to inform policymakers and ensure that educational resources are effective and appropriate.

In this area of our web site you'll find articles and resources focusing on living well with HIV, and telling the real personal stories of people with HIV/AIDS.

Monkey gene may offer HIV protection

Positive Living Centres: do we still need them?

Inside Melbourne's PLC. Photo: Andrew Renshaw.

Mostly established at a time when positive people faced isolation and stigma and urgently needed social support, the role of Positive Living is now being questioned. David Menadue investigates.

Online survey on internet use and men's social and sexual lives

A new survey for gay, bisexual or same-sex- attracted men is now underway and inviting participants to join the online study and provide information which is investigating how internet use relates to different aspects of men's social and sexual lives.

Unprotected sex: who's responsible?

Media frenzy over positive sex worker

Cover image for the March 2008 issue of Positive Living

January and February this year were marked by a furore of sensationalist media about Hector Scott, a resident of the ACT who first appeared in the ACT Magistrates court charged with providing a commercial sexual service while knowing he was infected with a sexually transmitted disease (STD), and failing to register as a sex worker.

Bareback is the new safe sex – or is it?

The announcement by a group of Swiss AIDS experts that people with undetectable viral load are sexually non-infectious needs to be treated with caution, writes Paul Kidd.

ACT Health ‘clumsy, alarmist’ in sex worker case

The ACT government’s handling of a case involving an alleged HIV-positive sex worker has been clumsy, alarmist and has failed to follow basic public health guidelines, the National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS (NAPWA) has said.

NAPWA Positive Women endorse new Terms of reference (TOR)

3 stonesNAPWA positve women have recently endorsed new Terms of reference for the advisory group.

Prevention is everybody’s business

This year’s World AIDS Day theme presents an opportunity for people living with HIV to talk about our role in response to the HIV epidemic in this country, writes NAPWA President Robert Mitchell.

AIDS Awareness Week: Do we still need it?

World AIDS Day may remind us of the illness and death associated with living with HIV, but it serves an important purpose in raising awareness, writes David Menadue.