"It’s been a long road, and I’m not nearly at the end of it yet."

"If you want to know the truth about living with HIV, you need to ask someone who has HIV."

"HIV is just a tiny part of who someone is."

"It's our duty to talk frankly and responsibly about sex."

"It's the mental side of HIV that's more difficult that the physical."

"There is hope, there is support, you are not on your own and you will thrive and not just survive living with HIV."

"If only those people could see things now, they wouldn't believe it, that HIV is an illness that people just carry on with."

"I quickly realised that I wanted to be an advocate for others to ensure that no one was treated the same way I was."

"It opened me up to meeting so many amazing people and learning so much about humans."

"There are so many lives lost, we can't forget the ones who went before us."