Humans of Scotland

"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."

“It feels like they are saying my son’s life ends when he leaves school...James deserves better."

"It's important for there to be more people out there that look like me, being positive role models and showing others they can do it too."

“Getting my life experience, it was hard, but now I can help others and that is a special thing. It helps me as much as it helps them.”

"If I can help one person, then that's great. My week is done, if I can do that."

"If you have met one person with a disability, then you have met one person with a disability."

“Caring for someone is such a complicated thing, as everything really just rests on you.”

“I feel like there is the expectation that doctors make all the decisions"

“We're the first generation that's talking about menopause.”

"It’s different when you have to support and care for yourself now, and I don't know if I if I'm doing it right."

“I struggled to understand why I couldn't just stop, why I no longer could think rationally, why almost everything was a trigger to gamble.”

“The buzz and getting lost in the moment of gambling was what got me hooked.”

“I see my work as an overlap of science and art.”

"There is no better satisfaction than hearing you have helped a patient, even with the small things in life."

“I want to come to work to do a good job which has a positive impact on people’s lives.”

"In some ways, it felt like watching a car crash in slow motion."