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• Chronic health issues >> HIV >> Aged 36-40 >> Interview 03 >> Living with a life threatening illness helped him to focus 'on the present' and what he needed to have a better quality of life.

Has slowly built up his strength since his illness, becoming highly expert in HIV. He did extensive self-development work on himself. He has 870 CD4 cells and currently takes nevirapine, abacavir, and lamivudine with minimal side effects.

• Chronic health issues >> HIV >> Aged 20-30 >> Interview 49 >> Being so young he felt that older people with HIV did not understand him.

Clint progressed to Aids defining illnesses relatively quickly. Fortunately, combination therapy had come in by then, and his original combination (Combivir, efavirenz and nelfinavir) is still effective today.

• Chronic health issues >> HIV >> Aged 36-40 >> Interview 21 >> He suddenly remembered a drunken incident of unsafe sex just before his seroconversion illness. (Read by an actor.)

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.)

• Chronic health issues >> HIV >> Aged 56-65 >> Interview 25 >> He assumed he had got HIV from his long-term partner and so had unprotected sex with a HIV positive man.

He currently takes didanosine, ritonavir, lamivudine and saquinavir for HIV. He has suffered from non-painful peripheral neuropathy and some lipodystrophy. With treatment, he now looks forward to a long retirement.

• Chronic health issues >> HIV >> Aged 36-40 >> Interview 03 >> Living with a life threatening illness helped him to focus 'on the present' and what he needed to have a better quality of life.

Has slowly built up his strength since his illness, becoming highly expert in HIV. He did extensive self-development work on himself. He has 870 CD4 cells and currently takes nevirapine, abacavir, and lamivudine with minimal side effects.