Tag Archives: undetectable

“I’m a smart, educated guy… For my friends and I, it wasn’t ‘if’ I got HIV, but ‘when’”.

By | 8th June 2018

Another day and another article about someone’s experience of becoming HIV+. “How could I have been so stupid? I’m a smart, educated guy with a good job. This kind of thing happened to other people, how had it happened to me?” says the man in the article. He goes on to say “four years ago… Read More »

GayStarNews article shows the lunacy behind “U=U”

By | 14th May 2018

“Undetectable equals untransmittable” (U=U) is a dangerous and misleading strategy from the lunatics who lead the gay health organisations. It’s a simplistic campaign to catch those who don’t think too deeply and to normalise bareback sex with men who are HIV+.   U=U seems to depend on the notion that HIV+ gay men can always… Read More »

Vintage safer sex leaflets expose current lies about supposedly unreliable condoms

By | 9th February 2018

The Terence Higgins Trust (THT) safer sex leaflet “Hick from the Sticks” dates from around 1993. In it, new arrival to the city Simon has lots of sex and wonders to himself “I always use condoms, but am I really safe?” Simon meets Paul, a decent guy who tells him he is HIV+. “Any of… Read More »

Study shows that the negative partner becoming positive isn’t the only danger in bareback-focused discordant relationships

By | 19th December 2017

Ten gay men became infected with HIV during the Danish PARTNER study. The research looked at discordant gay couples (where one is HIV+ and one is negative) . But, interestingly, when the strains of HIV were analysed, it was found that none of them had contracted HIV from their positive partner. They had been infected… Read More »

Organisations that are mainly run by HIV+ gay men don’t want condoms to be the answer

By | 13th December 2017

Twenty-five years ago, Gay Men Fighting AIDS (GMFA) was a worthwhile organisation. Its stylish ads promoting condom use would pop up on Channel 4 in the middle of the gay current affairs series “Out”. About twenty years ago the charity began to change. Despite being just a few percent of the UK gay male population,… Read More »

Why “undetectable for HIV” means you should still use a condom

By | 2nd December 2017

Articles and videos from the media and gay (ill)health organisations are full of half truths and wishful thinking about men being undetectable for HIV. It’s true that if an HIV+ gay man truly does have an undetectable viral load then you are unlikely to contract the virus from him, even if you don’t use a… Read More »

Having HIV is tough – tolerance, side effects, adherence, toxicity ignored

By | 17th September 2017

The gay (ill)health organisations promote HIV as easy to treat, you just take your meds and live a long and happy life. This is positive spin and reality is far different. They are doing the gay community a disservice by not presenting the truth of living with HIV. This presentation reveals the complexities of HIV… Read More »