The Public Health Agency says there are 1,325 people living with HIV in Northern Ireland.
More needs to be done to dispel the stigma that still persists about HIV and Aids, a man living with with the virus has told BBC News NI.
"People took a little thread of what they heard, and then they created it into something else and we're still dealing with the legacy of that." "You shouldn't have to, it's a virus. You don't apologise for catching a cold and it's a virus as well." In the years since his diagnosis, Mr Black said the "drawer full of tablets" he used to require has reduced to as little as a tablet a day.
However, he said the medical profession has improved a lot since then with experience and better education on the condition.Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a virus that attacks and destroys the body's T lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell, the reduction of which can then lead to the development of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome .
Without immunity, infection by micro-organisms, such as those that cause tuberculosis and pneumonia, becomes more common, and can be fatal.Currently, people who carry the HIV infection are given antiretroviral drugs which work by stopping the virus replicating in the body.
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