I remember getting out of bed the morning after my first pill, and almost falling over. I think for the majority of people those side-effects subside, but I started to develop a marked difference in my levels of anxiety and depression. My doctor advised me to stop, and to revert to another combination.

Hope all is going well!

Having been diagnosed late with advanced HIV infection and opportunistic illness, I cannot stress strongly how important it is to test regularly to avoid such a situation. I put it off due to fear, and the good old adage – ‘It wont have happened to me’. Lesson learned!

Crusaid offers funding to people living with HIV and suffering financial hardship. In 2008/9, it distributed £374,774 to 2,106 individuals. This was out of a total income of £1.6 million.

The charity spends just 39.9 per cent of its total spending on charitable activities

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/06/14/jobs-may-be-lost-as-crusaid-and-tht-merge/

The key Government document remains “Better Prevention, Better Services, Better Sexual Health – The National Strategy for Sexual Health and HIV” published in 2001 and the Implementation Action Plan of the following year.

Also see the Policies and Guidance section of this site

http://www.hivandsocialcare.org.uk/newtothefield

This is not a business deal your dealing with, it is people who are unwell. When the government thinks of people having to deal with GP’s who have no clue about how to deal with HIV. We want to stay with our own Doctors who have been their for us since our diagnosis, who have learnt more about the disease.

This is what THT should be speaking out about, not having tea with people who live in another planet and do not care about others. All these changes it will affect all of us, especially Africans or newly diagnosed HIV patients. They just do not care about people ,you have to be affected by this disease or suffering from it to understand about the needs of people living with HIV .

And as long as this Government tries to sweep it under the carpet stigma will remain.

When we had organisations that were run by HIV people they knew what people wanted and needed, now it is like a business venue. THT please wake up and stop cosying with them. People need you they cry out to you.