'[People] think it’s this awful disease and it’s really not - it’s so easily treated.”
A Galway woman who has HIV has said she feels “very stigmatised” when she opens up about her diagnosis.The HIV/AIDs epidemic of the 1980s disproportionately impacted the LGBT community and to this day there is a misconception that the virus is something only gay men need to worry about.“I found the first year very isolating and very lonely when I was in Sydney,” she said.Taking a blood sample for a rapid HIV test.
“I was just scared; I didn’t know how they were going to react and I knew they didn’t understand the whole concept of HIV.“And that it was AIDs and that I was dying; I just didn’t want them to be worried and I was very well.” “I kept explaining to him that we were having safe sex and my partner got a false negative in the STI checks but he just wasn’t taking it in.Before her diagnosis, Ms Commins assumed it was “very rare” for a straight man or straight person to contract HIV and she never worried about it.
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