Interview 31  

Interview 31

Age at Interview: 32
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 27
Background: A black African man, married with one child. He has discretional leave to remain in the UK.

Brief outline:While he did not become very ill with HIV, his GP proposed HIV testing when he had skin rashes in 2000. An early diagnosis meant it was possible for his health to be monitored. (Video and audio clips read by an actor.)

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With anti-HIV drugs becoming simplified it makes them easier to take. (Read by an actor.)

 



Well medication shouldn't be a problem nowadays because the medication has been simplified… if you can imagine, there are very few people who take a lot of tablets a day. These days. Because many, many of these medications have been combined now into like one tablet and so on. 

It used to be difficult in around, say up to, up to around 2000, that's when some people did take up to 20 pills and so on at a go. It was really distressing and worrying. And that's the time when it had so many side-effects like the body redistribution, your tummy, your belly. 

But these days they did a lot of research, the medication is very simple, it's just like an ordinary medicine… They keep on improving everything. 

Yeah it's, yeah, it's just like it's now food, when you start taking it you get used to it.

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