Humans of Scotland

"The idea of blame, guilt, and shame which I think is what has driven a lot of people within the HIV community to have poor mental health."

"A lot of my job was teaching others about the reality of HIV, as well as caring for people and families who were impacted by HIV."

"HIV is not just something from the past. We are still living with it, and we are still being stigmatised."

"A positive status doesn’t mean it’s the end of your world. I’m 25 years positive and still kicking!”

"That's my favourite part about my job - seeing people develop themselves, learn new skills, thrive and benefit from support of their peers"

"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."

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

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

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

“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."

“I just wanted to offer peer support to people struggling. Because I knew it was something I could have used at the time”

“I manage MS, MS does not manage me.”

“I never give up hope and take all the pains and barriers as challenges in my life.”

"I had felt like a burden, but my diagnosis meant that weight was lifted."