Hooked24: HIV and condoms

As it's World AIDS Day on December the 1st we decided we had to do a full show on HIV. Something which worried us at first because we like the podcast to be fun and HIV is anything but fun, and at one point we got quite angry with the situation on HIV in Uganda.

But being a Hooked podcast we did manage to stray into other more fun related subjects, at first this was supposed to be a HIV only show but it can now best be described as a HIV and condom show.

You can either download the episode directly or better still you can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes which will automatically get each new episode as it comes out.

If you're not someone who has listened to podcasts before, or if you have never even heard of them then we have an introductory article that explains all here.

Shownotes

Below are a number of the main websites for researching and keeping up to date with HIV. Firstly though we need to direct you to the article we mentioned in the show about Uganda proposing to introduce the death penalty for people who are gay and HIV positive. If you've listened to the show I'm sure you can tell how angry some of the comments the article has attracted made us angry, I would encourage people to make their opinion known.

Site links

World AIDS Day official website.
The fantastic new HIV focused social media site AIDSspace.
The United Nations AIDS website.
The international AIDS charity AVERT.
The AIDS Map website, supporting people living with HIV.
UK support and advocacy site for people living with HIV, the Terrence Higgins Trust.
Poz magazine.

If you are on Twitter and would like to follow some great HIV activists and groups I'd recommend these:
Poz magazine, AIDSspace, HIV tweets, Sillyoldactivix, and UNAIDS.