This section will help you to learn more about HIV and AIDS. It will help you to live positively if you have HIV and AIDS. It will also give you the resources you need to protect yourself from HIV if you do not have HIV, and to prevent re-infection if you are HIV positive.
Contents
The articles, audio tapes, videos, games and puzzles in this section cover the following topics:
- What is HIV
- How HIV is spread
- How to find out if you have HIV
- What to do if you have HIV
- How to protect yourself from HIV
- How to live positively if you have HIV
To learn more about HIV and AIDS, click on the sub-menu on the right under HIV and Me. Read these pages and share the information with your friends, family and community. Parents, adults, young people, teachers, health workers and the community can use the information.
Talk about it
Share with us about your experiences. Tell us about your HIV testing experiences, when you found out that you are HIV positive or negative, and how your life has changed since then.
Make sure that your comments on this Web site are anonymous if you are HIV positive and you have not come out publicly about your status. It is your right not to tell people that you are HIV positive.
- Why did you test for HIV?
- Did you get pre-counselling and post-counselling?
- What did you learn about your sexual behaviour from your conversation with the counsellor?
- What was the response of your family, friends and colleagues when you told them that you are HIV positive? [If you have told someone]
- What was the hardest when you told people that you are HIV positive?
- Did you change your sexual behaviour when you found out that you were HIV negative?
- What are you doing to make sure that you live a happy, healthy, positive life?
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What changes do you still need to make to enhance your life?
