See Also: HIV Stigma, Discrimination, and Criminalization
General Information
- Telling Others You Are HIV-Positive (AIDS InfoNet) and Spanish version
- Telling Others About Your HIV (Project Inform) and Spanish version
- Disclosure and HIV (The Well Project)
- Dating and HIV (The Well Project)
- Telling Others You Have HIV/AIDS (TheBody) – web page with links to many articles about disclosure
- Disclosing HIV-positive status to partners/dates (TheBody) – on-line “Ask the Experts” forum
- Talking with your children about HIV – excerpt from There is Hope: Learning to Live with HIV; although this publication is old, the information it contains may still be helpful for parents
Selected Recent Articles
- The Undetectable Problem 2: Dating, Sex and Criminalization. (September 2016, TheBodyPro)
- WikiLeaks Data Exposes HIV and Hepatitis Status. (August 2016, Poz)
- Full disclosure [responses to a survey on HIV disclosure]. (August 2016, Poz)
- That One Time I Didn’t Reveal My HIV Status. (July 2016, Beta Blog)
- Sex At Sex Parties, PrEP Takes HIV Disclosure Off the Table. (June 2016, Beta Blog)
- Things to Consider Before Disclosing Your HIV Status at Work. (June 2016, Beta Blog)
- The enduring power of stigma – understanding why HIV-positive gay men don’t disclose their status. (September 2015, AIDSmap)
- People who don’t tell anyone else their HIV status have as good health outcomes as other people living with HIV. (May 2015, AIDSmap)
- Status disclosure patterns related to HIV care retention, viral load. (February 2015, Healio)
- “You may have come into contact with…”: HIV Contact Tracing in Canada. (Fall 2014, CATIE)
- HIV prevention needs to support gay men to discuss HIV status and risk, especially in relationships. (July 2014, AIDSmap)
- Gay men who discuss HIV status with sexual partners are less likely to acquire HIV. (June 2014, AIDSmap)
- Taking one to tango: how restricting responsibility for safer sex to individuals hinders talking about safer sex. (January 2014, AIDSmap)
- Many Women Living With HIV Fear Abuse After Disclosure, Lack Access and Support. (November 2013, TheBodyPro)
- Questions of law: Legal and health care issues for people living with HIV. (September/October 2013, Positively Aware)
- Hooked Up: Exploring HIV Disclosure Online. (September 2013, TheBodyPro)
- The other side of disclosure. (July/August 2013, Positively Aware)
- Many people with HIV not disclosing at GUM clinics: estimates of undiagnosed infections may be too high. (February 2013, AIDSmap)
- Young gay men with HIV in the UK worry about disclosure, transmission and prosecution – older ones about confidence and sex. (November 2012, AIDSmap)
