Jacquie Richardson said that many of the myths from the 1980s still live on in Northern Ireland
The CEO of a Northern Irish HIV charity has challenged the misconceptions which still exist surrounding the condition in Northern Ireland.
"We are still very much wedded in what is essentially quite a conservative community to the myths and legacies that still remain from the 1980s campaigns and some of the misinformation that has originated there for example that HIV is a gay man's disease and that it is a death sentence." "Day and daily we still hear stories about people accessing healthcare, where a healthcare professional will double-glove, where people are kept to the end of the day before they can access a dentist surgery and we have recently heard from one of our service users who has been discharged from their dentist because they are HIV positive.
"If we can make sure that we are targeting the message in the appropriate ways which is age appropriate and delivered to the appropriate audiences, that will go a long way once people have a really good understanding of what HIV is and more importantly, what it is not," she added.
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