One of my primary roles in my company is to provide accurate information to the public and to society generally about how HIV is transmitted and is not transmitted. I don't see that it's my role to encourage people to have the test, but I do feel it is important that people have accurate information so that they then can make an informed choice about whether or not they have the test themselves. Having a positive diagnosis has many many many implications and they all have to be considered before a test is taken. In the world today there is still a very high level of prejudice and discrimination directed toward people who are living with HIV and that has to be taken into consideration when somebody is having the test. Here in the UK it is very difficult to gain employment if you are living with HIV, it is difficult to get a mortgage, it is difficult to get life insurance, and it is difficult to travel to certain countries in the world. You know there are many many restrictions placed on people with HIV because of fear and ignorance. I don't generally give advice but if anyone is considering having the test, I guess what I would advise is first make sure you have all the information you need in order to make an accurate decision to be tested. Once you have that information then you need to think about the impact that, that is going to have on your life and you need to consider that very carefully. You need to consider very carefully also who you're going to tell, how people might react. One of the things that have been very important to me throughout my journey from being diagnosed to today is the support I've had in the world. The support I've had from my friends, from my family, from my peers, and from professionals who are there to provide me with a service, whether it be counselors, coaches, doctors, consultants whatever. Isolation is a killer, isolation will kill you. So it is very important, and one of the things I strongly advise people to do who are considering being tested, is to think about who is there in the world to support? Who is there who is going to positively respond to the possibility that you may be HIV positive? Once you have established who those people might be, then it's important to think about how you're going to get them to support you, how you're going to get them to be there for you, should you have a positive diagnosis.