Living with HIV
Book Title: Living with HIV
Why Christina is volunteering:
I was diagnosed with HIV at the age of 15 in 1988. When I was given this diagnosis, I was told I had at most 10 years to live if I was lucky. Now over 30 years later, I am still living with HIV but in a completely different landscape where an HIV diagnosis means living with a chronic condition instead of a death sentence. I wish to share my experiences of living with HIV then and now and show that the face of someone living with HIV could be any face you see on the street. People living with HIV face stigma every day and I hope that being open and sharing my story with you will help lessen this stigma.
Some great questions to get the conversation started are:
- What was it like to live with HIV in the 1980s?
- What is it like to live with HIV today?
- How has living with HIV affected and/or changed your life?
For More Information
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780691228839Publication Date: 2021-04-13
And the Band Played On by Call Number: RA644.A25 S48 1988ISBN: 014011369XPublication Date: 1988-10-04
HIV Infection and AIDS by Call Number: RC607.A26 B553 2000ISBN: 0443061688Publication Date: 2000-11-03
Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Call Number: RA644.A25 S662 1990ISBN: 0385267053Publication Date: 1989-12-01
- Timeline: HIV (Cell) by The human immunodeficiency virus, the lentivirus that causes AIDS, is responsible for the most prevalent epidemic in the history of mankind. Here in this Timeline, we have attempted to illustrate a short history of HIV-1, from its identification in landmark papers published by Robert Gallo, Myron Essex, and Luc Montagnier, to the numerous drug and vaccine trials as well as the stride toward a possible cure.Publication Date: 2020-10-15
- Forgotten lessons: for many people in the developed world HIV is no longer the death sentence it once was. Paroma Basu explores the consequences of complacency (Nature) by Since the 1980s, outreach and prevention programmes have helped avert thousands, if not millions, of HIV infections in high-income countries. Readily available antiretroviral drugs have helped turn it into a chronic, manageable condition. Public-health officials worry that these successes have, however, spawned an epidemic of blasé attitudes. People are less attuned to messages of prevention, and the importance of routine HIV tests and adherence to treatment. Risky behaviours are beginning to re-emerge, even as numbers of HIV infections are on the upswing.Publication Date: 2010-07-15
- HIV prevention today: do we still need a vaccine? A community perspective. (Journal of the International Aids Society) by HIV prevention today: do we still need a vaccine? The HIV vaccine development community should draw lessons about acceptability, access and user preference on dosing and timing from COVID 19 vaccine rollout programs.Publication Date: 2021-11
- HIV.govHIV.gov is the federal government's leading source for information about HIV.
- HIVinfo.NIH.govNational Institutes of Health collaborative informative page on HIV.