Nation is trustworthy and objective."
The majority of you find the language used in

PosNation simple and clear to understand, although one in ten find that the treatment information is sometimes a little technical. Because this is the single most useful thing to our readers, and many people act on it, we must ensure that it's always easy to understand. We intend to provide more basic info on HIV and treatments.
It isn't just anti-HIV treatments that people need to know about; several readers referred to treatments like New-fill for facial wasting. A higher percentage (one quarter) of HIV negative men found the treatment language "sometimes difficult", and this may again provide indirect evidence that we are read by HIV negative gay men who are using us as their only source of HIV info.
There are of course other sources of treatment information. Readers also cite Aids Treatment Update, +ve and the i-Base publications.
What does this imply for Positive Nation's future development?
Well, we will redouble our efforts to reach and respond to all HIV positive people in the UK. At least a third of the cumulative total of people living with HIV in this country is heterosexual, of which the majority are black Africans. We know from other surveys that this group is less likely than other HIV positive people to be open about their status to anyone other than their doctors, or to use community HIV services. So we intend to redouble our efforts to appeal to, and access these often very isolated people.
We don't reach enough young people. It's notoriously difficult to interest young people in things like sexual health, but we do need to draw in younger readers. (Of course,

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