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Welcome to Talkabout the bimonthly magazine produced by Positive Life NSW. In this online version of the magazine you can view selected articles from current and previous issues. While not every issue is available online yet, articles are continually being added and we endeavour to have as many issues of Talkabout online as soon as possible.

Positive Life NSW members receive a free hard copy of Talkabout magazine by mail, please view our membership section for more information. If you wish to subscribe to Talkabout without becoming a member please view our subscriptions for non-members section.

Talkabout is made possible by subscriptions, advertising revenue, donations and a grant under the State/Commonwealth AIDS Program. Talkabout thanks the many volunteers without whom the publication would not be possible. All views expressed are the opinions of authors and not necessarily those of Positive Life NSW, its management or members.

Walk for AIDS

Posted online 2 October 2008

Join our Walk for AIDS on Sunday 23rd November, 2008. The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain will be a wonderful backdrop for a leisurely Sunday morning stroll during AIDS Awareness Week to show your support for people living with HIV/AIDS.

So can you cook? No 31 - Comfort Food

Posted online 15 September 2008
Categories: Recipes

Tim Alderman discusses comfort food and shares some recipes.

Ask Ingrid: Working out at home

Posted online 15 September 2008
Categories: Exercise, Healthy living

Gym instructor Ingrid Cullen on working out at home and making the most of expensive gym visits.

It’s all in the mind?

Posted online 15 September 2008
Categories: Depression, Mental health conditions

Garry Wotherspoon on some possible impacts of HIV on mental health.

Dry mouth and HIV

Posted online 15 September 2008
Categories: Advocacy, Healthy living, Oral health

Dentist Dr Trevor Morris talks with Lance Feeney about dry mouth and how to prevent it.

Coming from the space of true love

Posted online 15 September 2008
Categories: Sex, safe sex and relationships

Sam describes how he dealt with HIV as a negative man and then as a
positive man, and the relationships he has had along the way.

Systemic Advocacy at Positive Life NSW

Posted online 15 September 2008
Categories: Advocacy

Lance Feeney on the newly created Systemic Advocacy project at Positive Life NSW.

Behind the land of smiles

Posted online 15 September 2008
Categories: Southeast Asia and HIV

Rob Sutherland on HIV and men who have sex with men (MSM) in Thailand and progress at the United Nations

Too far gone?

Posted online 15 September 2008
Categories: Healthy living, Living with HIV

Greg Page examines a culture of bingeing and what it means if you’re HIV+

US ban on HIV positive travelers to be lifted - but not yet!

Posted online 14 August 2008
Categories: Advocacy, Travel and immigration

On Wednesday July 30, US President George Bush signed into law a multibillion dollar AIDS relief bill that also ends the twenty year ban on entry of foreign visitors and immigrants with HIV.