Medication only works if you take it as you should. Check out how to do that and stay HIV-negative, or become undetectable if you’re positive
We The Brave chatted with Lesego Teddy Mohlala the Call4Care Client Communications Liaison Manager about his passion for connecting people with the healthcare and sexual health resources that they need. WTB: For those who have been sleeping under a rock,…
Hunnay, if you are single-handedly putting the ‘HOE’ back into ‘HOE-MO-SEXUAL’, you will not be getting a Judge Judy impersonation from me! Uh Uh! Nuh Uh! Nancy Drew the line! Thou shalt NOT! I am NOT a gayzebo, and therefore…
It’s been a long cold Winter, fam. This Diva would be the last Diva to judge your for jumping on anything with a pulse as the Spring begins to thaw things out. The thirst is real, and I feel you.…
Let’s address the rather large red elephant in the room, shall we? Undetectable viral loads in a person on successful treatment of ARV’s and using PrEP in relation to shame, I feel is a conversation that needs to start happening…
It’s called Event-based PrEP or PrEP On-demand, and it’s when you take two PrEP pills on the day you plan to have sex and then one pill every day for two days after you’ve had sex. The World Health Organisation…
It’s nice to get something on V – Day, like cards, choccies and champers. But, let’s not make it ‘V’ for “venereal.” The problem with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) like gonorrhoea, syphilis, herpes, chlamydia, genital warts (HPV), hepatitis and HIV,…
Here are a few HIV and STI combination prevention techniques that you may not know about: Serosorting, what’s that? This is when an HIV-positive guy chooses to have sex with other HIV-positive guys, exclusively. Some guys find this reduces their…
Combination Prevention is taking one way of protecting yourself from HIV and other STIs, and combining it with another method of protection to further reduce your chances of infection. So, take your pick, and have it your way this festive…
The great question we all ask ourselves at some point is: “Why am I here? What is my life’s purpose?”. I know that question well. In August 2010 – I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the…
When people discuss HIV, you’ll often hear terms like CD4 count and Viral Load being thrown around, as if you did higher-grade extra Biology in matric. Truth be told, they’re pretty easy to understand, once you break them down as…