The voices of people living with HIV: Positive Perspectives 1 and 2
Understanding the experiences of people living with HIV is essential to create policy and services to meet their needs. In 2017, the Positive Perspectives 1 Survey was carried out in nine countries and included 1,111 people living with HIV. It highlighted the challenges people living with HIV face and the impacts of HIV and treatment on their daily lives.
Positive Perspectives 2 builds on the work of the first study. It includes the opinions of 2,389 people living with HIV from across 25 countries.
It explores how people living with HIV rate their own health, how living with HIV impacts their lives and affects their outlook for the future, as well as their interactions and relationships with healthcare providers and their experiences with antiretroviral treatment (ART).
Shaping future care
Watch these short videos from members of the Advisory Committee talking about the importance of Positive Perspectives:

Brent Allan

Erika Castellanos

Bruce Richman

Read the Positive Perspectives report foreword by Garry Brough
Study methodology
Positive Perspectives is an international, cross-sectional study. In total, 2,389 people living with HIV aged 18–84 from 25 countries participated:
North America
USA (n=400), Canada (n=120)
Central and South America
Mexico (n=63), Brazil (n=58), Argentina (n=50), Chile (n=50)
Europe
UK (n=123), France (n=120), Germany (n=120), Italy (n=120), Spain (n=120), Portugal (n=60), Switzerland (n=55), The Netherlands (n=51), Republic of Ireland (n=50), Austria (n=50), Belgium (n=50), Poland (n=50)
Africa
South Africa (n=179)
Eurasia
Russia (n=150)
Asia Pacific
Australia (n=120), Japan (n=75), Taiwan (n=55), China (n=50), South Korea (n=50)
Who took part in the study?
The study was conducted between April 2019 and January 2020. Some data included in this report are based on an interim analysis carried out in September 2019 including 2,112 participants; most of this report is based on the full sample size of 2,389 participants.
The study was run by ViiV Healthcare in collaboration with an international, multi-disciplinary Advisory Committee. This expert panel included people living with HIV, representatives from HIV support groups and HIV physicians.
The Advisory Committee was instrumental to the development of the study themes, as well as being involved in the analysis and communication of the Positive Perspectives results.














Download the results report
If you would like to find out more about Positive Perspectives study, you can download the full results report here.