Said Russell-Moyle of World AIDS Day<\/a>: \u201cSuch events are also deeply personal to me. Next year I will be marking an anniversary of my own \u2013 10 years since I became HIV positive. It has been a long journey, from the fear of acceptance and today, hopefully, advocacy, knowing that my treatment keeps me healthy and protects any partner that I may have.\u201d<\/p>\n Russell-Moyle described what it was like being diagnosed with HIV: \u201cWhen you get that call<\/a> from the clinic and they just say: \u2018You need to come in.\u2019 They don\u2019t tell you the details, and you know immediately that something is going to be wrong\u2026.So all the different worst case scenarios flash through your mind\u2026.At the same time you are working out all the ways that this is some joke, some technical error, some tiny thing that they\u2019re going to tell you that you\u2019re going to be laughing about later on\u2026and then they tell you and it hits you like a wall\u2026Nothing quite prepares you for when they say those words\u2026You walk out feeling totally numb, with a million things going through your mind, and at the same time a sense of absolute nothingness.\u201d<\/p>\n Russell-Moyle made a point in explaining how being HIV-undetectable means he is not able to transmit the virus. He also said that he wanted to bring awareness that the world is on the cusp of eradicating HIV \u201cbut we are at a fault in the road\u201d with cuts to public health threatening a universal roll-out of PrEP, the pill that prevents HIV.<\/p>\n He added: \u201cI wanted to be able to stand here in this place and say to those who are living with HIV that their status does not define them.\u00a0We can be whoever we want to be, and to those who have not been tested, maybe because of fear, I say to you: it is better to live<\/a> in knowledge than to die in fear.\u201d<\/p>\n Watch:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The post British MP Reveals He is HIV-Positive in Moving Speech Ahead of World AIDS Day: WATCH<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad Gay News<\/a>.<\/p>\n