Ellie Harrison was diagnosed through a free home test which is being rolled out by the government.
By Rebecca Swash and Manish Pandey"We live in a society where sex is still quite a taboo topic. Just the discussion 'let's go for an STI test' can be quite a daunting thing."Men who have sex with other men are one of the groups most at risk of getting HIV, so for the 26-year-old - as a straight woman - it was "the last one" she expected.A drop of blood from a finger prick is tested, which Ellie tells BBC Newsbeat was "easy and efficient".
"I was just really scared of what was going to happen, what the treatment was going to be like, and if I was going to be OK." Ellie was booked into a specialist HIV clinic and found out specific details, like the amount of virus in her blood - viral load - and the strength of her immune system. The treatment plan can be as simple as taking tablets to bring viral load down, with Ellie saying she feels HIV is "one of the easiest medical conditions" to manage.HIV medication can keep the virus at undetectable levels, meaning you cannot pass HIV on and your health is protected.
If untreated it can lead to late-stage HIV or Aids, the name for a collection of illnesses caused by the virusModern medication reduces the viral load to undetectable levels, meaning someone can't pass on HIV and their health is protected
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