Cass Mann is one of the world's longest-term HIV-positive diagnosed gay men, now in his third decade of living with HIV, and the founder of UK’s only gay men’s HIV/AIDS charity Positively Healthy, which provides HIV services including education, support, and peer counselling. Here he talks about the realities of HIV in the gay community today. Any gay man becoming HIV positive in the United Kingdom today has at some level made a decision that it was OK to contract HIV, because we know how to prevent transmission of HIV and if a man applies that knowledge, it's extremely unlikely he'll contract HIV. Unprotected sex is taking a risk each time of needlessly contracting HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Drug use increases the risk that people will have unprotected sex while under the influence. Protect yourself and your partner every time you have sex regardless of your HIV status! For more information, visit http://www.posh-uk.org.uk/ and http://www.AIDSvideos.org/.
