Damaging cuts to public health budgets across England are forcing sexual health services to encourage people to order STI testing… Read more As cuts to sexual health clinics mean more people will be urged to test at home, I decided to experience home STI testing for myself.
Today I mark a day in my life that I will remember forever, it is eight years since I received… Read more The S Word
I’ve not written anything for a while, or more accurately I have written a lot and left the contents of… Read more 80 days of HIV
During another successful National HIV Testing Week I’ve spoken to a lot of different people about my own experiences of… Read more Gifts
Over the weekend the media has been in a spin about a ‘breakthrough’ to finding a cure for HIV. The fact is we’re still a… Read more Acceptance
A long and busy week – but a really informative and interesting one, especially the last couple of days! On… Read more Your voice in your care
This time last summer I left the comfort of my old workplace, which I loved and had spent eight years developing my career in… Read more One year
The ‘chesty cough stuff’ didn’t work and I endured the sore throat for a good few more weeks into the Autumn… Read more The b*stard in my throat
I take responsibility for my HIV status, I don’t blame myself (or anyone else); accidents happen and unfortunately the consequences of… Read more It’s not that simple
This photo was taken in the summer of 2009, the middle of June and a week after when I believe… Read more VII
Alex Sparrowhawk 