A man who contracted HIV after having a one-night stand has praised Eastenders for highlighting the disease.
Jay Hawkridge, 29, thought the virus “was a thing of the past” before he contracted the HIV in 2019 after having sex with a guy he had been chatting to. Jay became seriously unwell a few days later, when he came down with a fever and started feeling nauseous.
He took himself to A&E where a blood test came back negative for HIV. Around a month and a half after that he went for an STI test as he had a suspicion he contracted something. He was ‘confused’ and didn’t know what his future would look when he was told he was HIV positive in October 2019.
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