A man who contracted HIV during a one-night stand has praised Eastenders for bringing light to the disease after he thought the virus 'was a thing of the past' before his diagnosis.
Jay Hawkridge, 29, became HIV positive in 2019 after having unprotected sex with another man he had been speaking to, the Manchester Evening News reports.
A few days later, Jay was seriously unwell and came down with a fever that left him feeling very nauseous. When he took himself to A&E, his blood test results came back negative for HIV but around a month and a half later he booked a STI test after suspecting he had contracted an infection.
