World AIDS Day: Living with HIV in Luxembourg
“I honestly can't remember how I felt when the doctor told me I had HIV, but I think I was lucky to be diagnosed at a time where I was full of life and enjoying it, because I didn't see it as an end to everything. I was determined not to let it interfere with my life"
(MSS) Martin knew he was going to die when he was diagnosed with HIV in the late '80s aged 27.
Many of his friends from the gay community in Paris had also been diagnosed with what was ignorantly being referred to as “the gay plague”, and those diagnosed positive with this new disease often passed away within two to three years.
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