Category Archives: HIV and Me

Relationship Types & How They Affect The Spread Of HIV

HIV Package For Women (New Era)

This article published on New looks at the progress that HIV prevention campaigns in Namibia have accomplished, as well as offering suggestions on how women can protect themselves from HIVinfection. 1) HIV test. Always the first important step is to know one’s HIV status. Testing must always be done jointly with partners, where there are [...]

4 Things You Can Do This World AIDS Day

Here are some things you can do to celebrate World AIDS Day: 1. Cut the sexual network – Make a commitment to have only one love and to be faithful to that partner. If having one partner is not possible (e.g. you’re in a polygamous marriage), make a commitment not to increase the number of [...]

Dealing With The Fear Of Taking The HIV Test

Occassionally a reader of the OneLove web site writes in to say that he/she engaged in risky sexual behaviour- such as having sex without a condom with someone who HIV status he/she does not know – and is  afraid that he/she may have got HIV from the partner. The reader may also experience a big [...]

The HIV Vaccine and Multiple Concurrent Partnerships

What does the discovery of a possible HIV vaccine mean for HIV prevention in Southern Africa? How do we ensure that people in the region do not expect the vaccine to be available tomorrow and they  start taking sexual risks such has having multiple concurrent partners and having unprotected sex?

A Marriage Is Tested

Dorothy’s marriage was not working and she her husband decided to separate. Fortunately, the split turned out not to be permanent, but the relationship was tested in other ways. This is her story:

Getting Tested For HIV & Telling People That You Are HIV Positive

Last night on Kwanda, a South African community makeover TV show, volunteers in one of the teams encouraged community members to test for HIV. One of the volunteers also disclosed that she was HIV positive. In view of this, the OneLove Regional web site team would like to provide further information about the benefits of [...]