Positive Voices
Thomas Strong is a member of ACT UP Dublin and a lecturer in Anthropology at Maynooth University. As a person living with HIV, he knows about the dangers of stigma and the need for U=U to be shared. Interview by Peter Dunne.
Photo by Hazel Coonagh.
One way in which stigma works is that people often think that HIV is about other kinds of people, that it isn’t in their own social world. So when I teach about the HIV epidemic to my students in medical anthropology, I do so from the perspective of someone openly living with HIV. It is my hope that doing so counters the impression that HIV is ‘out there’ somewhere, rather, it is in here with us.