Love is allowed, or the story of one discordant couple
We asked our friends at an HIV foundation to explain what a discordant couple is and how they live. Spoiler: almost the same as any other couple.
Love is allowed, or the story of one discordant couple
Love is allowed, or the story of one discordant couple.
Purpur asked our friends at an HIV foundation to tell us what a discordant couple is and how they live.
Spoiler: almost the same as all other couples, only with their own important rituals and traditions. A positive HIV status doesn't affect the relationship, and certainly not the level of mutual understanding in it.
At HIV foundations like this one you can get tested quickly and anonymously.
This is the first comic about a discordant couple. More stories about this couple are coming.
In one city, one neighborhood and one building lived the most ordinary and happy couple. One partner has HIV, and the other doesn't. They are a discordant couple.
Is their relationship any different from any other?
No.
They love each other,
raise a cat,
shower together
and always know how to make an evening better.
The HIV-positive partner takes antiretroviral therapy, or ART, exercises and keeps an especially close eye on their health.
"I love this tradition of ours..."
Twice a year the couple go for a checkup.
One partner, to make sure the viral load is undetectable, which means they can't transmit HIV.
The other, to make sure their own status hasn't changed.
February
