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https://www.alliance-scotland.org.uk/humansofscotland/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2024/10/Maxine.png312336“When I first started as a counsellor for people living with HIV, my first patient was actuallya woman and her baby. I thought that was so unusual, because in 1998 it seemed that itwas only gay men who really had HIV. Back then the treatment was still in the very earlystages, and even when medication … Continued