Getting tested and diagnosed

"I thought I was pretty clued up on HIV before, but in reality I knew very little."

"In April of 2007 I found out I was in the early stages of HIV. I was 20 years old."

"I always felt I was indestructible and that this sort of thing only happened to others."

"The reality that you have to live with it for life was very daunting."
 

"Get tested if you think you are at risk. Don't do what I did and leave it till you get sick."

"I had such horrendous anxiety I stopped eating, slept more and more and didn't like going anywhere."

"My middle sister Nerys passed away. She was 32 and she was HIV positive."

"The results were like as if I had been thrown up against a brick wall at 100 miles an hour."