Islanders ‘living with HIV’, warns charity

Friday 16th July 2010, 2:57PM BST.

Executive director of the charity Rosemary Ruddy

MORE Islanders should get tested for HIV, according to a local Aids charity, which says that people in Jersey could be unknowingly living with the virus.

Aids Care Education and Training has warned that Islanders who have many sexual partners should consider taking a blood test.

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Leah Holmes

July 18, 2010 at 10:29 pm

“Islanders who have many sexual partners should consider taking a blood test”

Remove the word ‘consider’! They owe it to themselves AND potential partners to get tested. We are long pased the immature days where asking to see a partner’s test results was embarrassing. Given Jersey’s STI stats, NOT asking to see a test result is pathetic.

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