Interview 35  

Interview 35

Age at Interview: 40
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 30
Background: A 40 year-old married man with 2 children, originally from Africa.

Brief outline:He turned up in the health system with TB in the mid-1990s, and was tested for HIV. He has an undetectable viral load and 400 CD4 cells. He accesses African support groups and the Internet for support. (Video and audio clips read by an actor.)

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A hospital doctor wrote to his GP about his HIV and so he is now suspicious of health professionals. (Read by an actor.)

 



They told GP, they wrote a letter from my hospital to the GP, oh this person he is infected. Maybe his children might be, his wife might be also you know, that kind of a thing. So it's a lot of confused bunch which I don't really trust again, I don't actually agree with them yeah... Well it makes me very sceptical, when I go to see health professionals. 

I now deliberately refuse to open up to them because they're just sniffing around for information from you. The little thing they hear from you, they write it down you know, put it on paper. You know when you tell them you don't want it on record, Please let it be off record, they just secretly put it down and then by the time you get back to them... you don't know where information is passed to. 

Yet they will tell you there and then that number one this information is just within, it's not going out, but nobody knows what happens to it thereafter. 

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