On 14 June 2004 at 18:48:09 (Canberra time), the resident population of Australia is projected to be: 20,121,158 Link AIDS deaths to date: Worldwide estimates 21,800,000 (estimates until the end of 2001 Link Now imagine that the whole of the population of Australia was infected by HIV and died.. shocking hey.

Just some things for people to think about. International Statistics from Link According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, as of December 2003, the following trends of the worldwide epidemic (or pandemic) of HIV are evident: Today, 40 million people are estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS. Of these, 37 million are adults and 2.5 million are children under 15. An estimated 5 million people acquired the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 2003 , includ...

Since having HIV the word positive has meant alot of different things to me. Pozzie, Poz, Positive. It's really ironic that the term for living with HIV is Positive . People keep saying to me be positive. I am. Ive learnt to live with this. Being Positive. Even though I would rather be negative. Im positive. Seems a funny play on words that we use. The virus works by attacking the immune system. More speciafically it attacks the part of the immune system called the T Cells or ...

It finally rained last night. Not only did it rain but it poured! Thunder and lightening and heavy wonderful rain! Still not enough though, but as a relief it was very welcomed. The air feels clean and crisp. I had very bizarre dreams last night. Stocrin dreams. Stocrin is one of the drugs I am on. It makes you feel like your on an ecstacy pill, not a good one. I take it at night so I can ride it out while Im asleep. The only thing though is that it give you the most vivid dreams. I coul...

One of the most crucial things about living with HIV is taking medication. There is a whole list of medications now available to people in the west to help people living with HIV to continue to keep living. Sounds good? Ill let you in on something. I first started taking the meds seven years ago. I was on the brink. My viral load was 1 million 500 thousand. That means for every 10 mls of my blood there existed 1500000 copies of HIV. I had 70 t cells. I had lost about 10 kgs in weigh...

Im going to take a little twist on my blogging. It's taken courage to write about this on here. At first I thought I shouldnt bring it up. But it is a part of me, and what has made me who I am today, especially how I view the world. So here it goes... Ive been living with HIV (Human Immunodificency Virus) since I was 18, I am now 31. In that time I have seen people die around me, people reject me, people learn from me and people love me in ways I never dreamed imaginable. To me livi...

I woke up again this morning still feeling like I am in dreamstate. I dont like this feeling. I know something is about to happen. Why I dont like it is because I know something is about to happen but the thing is what. It is the what and when that I dont like. Last time this happened which was only a couple of weeks ago my whole family was turned upsidedown in turmoil. Maybe I should explain how I feel. My whole skin is tingling. Everything around me seems surreal and I seem to know ...