relationships

Adopting a child with HIV

Graham Stocks — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:54:44 -0800

Orphans with HIV often miss out on the opportunity of being adopted due to the ongoing misconceptions people still hold about the disease.

Carolyn Twietmeyer, an American mother of 13 – seven biological and six adopted (of whom two are HIV positive) – spoke about her experiences at an adoption conference in Australia in November.

Tales from the Network

Graham Stocks — Thu, 26 May 2011 18:18:05 -0700

With a background in counselling, Kate Bennett works with positive people throughout Tasmania.

Are you clean?

Graham Stocks — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:11:08 -0800

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.

Spreading the word

Paul Kidd — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:19:14 -0700

HIV prevention campaigns target gay men in serodiscordant relationships and young heterosexual travellers.

Telling your partner

Paul Kidd — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:00:00 -0800

If you are in a relationship with someone who is HIV negative (known as a serodiscordant relationship), or if you have multiple casual partners whose HIV status you may or may not know, you may want to tell him or her.

Ron: Being pro-active

admin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:26:43 -0700

After more than 20 years experience of living with HIV, Ron has worked out how to keep his life balanced. He works at remaining self-aware, and he has developed strategies to help manage competing pressures from work, his relationship and HIV, and to stay in control of his physical and mental health.

Opposites attract

David Menadue — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:00:41 -0700

Pos-neg relationships, magnetic partnerships, mixed-status couples, serodiscordant shack-ups … positive and negative men and women are proving that when you’re in love, nothing — not even HIV — need stand in your way. DAVID MENADUE reports.

Forming relationships

Sun, 30 Jun 2002 07:00:37 -0700

Relationships can be safe places where we exchange support, love and intimacy. They can also be hard work. For some men the HIV status of their partner is insignificant; for others it is an important factor.