Interview 21  

Interview 21

Age at Interview: 40
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 37
Background: A professional gay man in full time work. He was diagnosed in September 2002 when he presented feeling tired and lacking in energy.

Brief outline:Although he was very ill with HIV, he was determined not to become a victim and 'end up on the scrap heap.' He lives a healthy and physically active life on combination therapies (nevirapine and Combivir). (Video and audio clips read by an actor.)

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He suddenly remembered a drunken incident of unsafe sex just before his seroconversion illness. (Read by an actor.)

 



I was listening to the radio. And there was a…coverage of a, of a conference on. And I suddenly had this awful remembrance of a drunken night in town. And thinking, bastard… If it wasn't that, it… 

And then I remembered that I… that neither of us had had a rubber. You know, and it seemed like a good idea. I don't do sex drunk. Normally. That was 5… 4 years beforehand. And after that I'd come out in an… But I'd never even heard of seroconversion. 

I'd come out with an enormous rash I… Everything that, that I've subsequently learnt was to do with seroconvertion.

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