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Aged 41-45
Interview 10  

Interview 10

Age at Interview: 41
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 34
Background: Irish gay male living in London. He originally went on combination therapies as part of a trial, and has suffered from PCP.
Brief outline:Today, he has considerable support from friends and family, and takes a combination of anti-retroviral drugs with few side effects (abacavir, 3TC, Kaletra). He is now in good health except for occasional chest infections.

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He belongs to many minorities and has to challenge prejudices.

 



You know, I've sort of been the minority and I'm in London as an Irish man. In Ireland as being a gay protestant. In the Republic, you know, sort of a minority. And then you sort of come here and you become HIV positive. So it's all minorities all the way. So it makes you, it makes me very intolerant to people who don't… who are racist or prejudiced in any way. I have absolutely no time for it. And in sort of situations like that I find that I can't ignore it either. I have to stand up and say, 'This is not right. This is not, you know, you cannot think these views', I mean, 'You can think them but they're not correct.' And I have to express myself and tell them. I can't sort of let somebody say something and sort of think, 'Well, OK, I'm not going to challenge that or whatever.' I have to get in and sort of say, 'Wrong.'
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