Maurice's Story - Amazing People Living with HIV

The Open University (2022). Maurice's Story - Amazing People Living with HIV. The Open University, OU Connect.

URL: https://media-podcast.open.ac.uk/feeds/3521_omusho...

Abstract

Maurice has been living with HIV longterm. His deeply affecting story offers us a glimpse into this still misunderstood condition, and how a positive diagnosis can turn a person's life inside-out.

Maurice talks about happiness, aging, multimorbidities, management, being undiagnosed, sexuality, the impact of diagnosis, impacts on career, visibility, dying, lack of treatments, serious side effects, comorbidities, symptoms, disease, memory problems, hospitalisation, terminal illness, miracle drugs, mental strength, support of family and friends, music, employment, burn out, clinical depression, counselling, charity support, personal development, community work, mental health, education, confidence, communication, identity.