Posts by subject: Health
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
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.
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
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
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
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.