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20 August 2013 / Comments Off on Health workers and HIV: are we safe?

Health workers and HIV: are we safe?

The Department of Health recently announced that the ban preventing HIV+ surgeons, dentists and other health care staff from performing certain medical procedures is to be scrapped. It was introduced when the routes of transmission were less well understood, and … Continue reading

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13 January 2012 / 3 comments

PEP talk

As part of my work on THT Direct, I’m often asked about what to do if someone’s either not used a condom, or it broke, and now they’re worried they might have caught something. Specifically HIV.

18 July 2011 / 1 comment

Cold shoulder: how to kill that cold sore

If you follow me on twitter, you might have seen my comment a few weeks ago, about me feeling like the biker in the Zovirax advert. I had a cold sore; I wanted to put a crash helmet on, and … Continue reading

22 March 2011 / Comments Off on Wrestling week three: my journey continues

Wrestling week three: my journey continues

Arriving at Bethnal Green’s Resistance Gallery ahead of me were two girls, having the same dilemma as I did a couple of weeks before: is this the place? I was behind them with my bike, so I encouraged them to … Continue reading

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8 March 2011 / Comments Off on Coming out: learning lucha libre

Coming out: learning lucha libre

Here’s my coming out moment: since I was a teenager, I’ve been interested in wrestling. Not regular wrestling, but American style wrestling – the theatricality and acrobatics. For years, I thought that I’d love to learn how to do it, … Continue reading

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25 November 2010 / 11 comments

Game of risk? How to keep yourself safe from HIV

Next Wednesday is World Aids Day, and with it comes more reminders that we need to keep ourselves safe.