"I've just come out of my relationship and I think there's so much stigma around HIV on dating apps,"
"Still people think it's a gay man's disease and I think people don't realise that women can get it, trans men, trans women [can get it]. It can affect anyone, and... they're scared to talk about it."
"On dating apps people block you because you're HIV [positive] and it's like, I'm not a bad person [because I have HIV]. It's just because they see that I'm HIV positive and they're like 'block block block'. That's stigma."
Asttina Mandella is hosting a World AIDS Day gala to support East London HIV service Positive East and confront ongoing stigma around HIV. The gala is organised by HIV The Naked Truth, a collective founded by Joshua Royal during lockdown. The event marks ten years since Joshua's HIV diagnosis and twenty years since Positive East formed. Public awareness of HIV treatment and prevention has improved through Undetectable = Untransmittable messaging and increased PrEP access, yet misinformation and stigma persist. Stigma frequently appears on dating apps, and recent UK diagnoses rose, with many new cases among heterosexual men and women.
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