‘Those in middle age and dating again need to get tested’ – HIV campaigner Rebecca’s warning

‘I was given two years to live when diagnosed with HIV but here I am nearly four decades later,’ says Rebecca Tallon de Havilland

HIV awareness campaigner Rebecca Tallon de Havilland. Photo: Gareth Chaney

HIV awareness campaigner Rebecca Tallon de ­Havilland was given just two years to live when diagnosed with the virus in the late 1980s, but 38 years later she is living a full and healthy life.

The Longford-born trans woman is celebrating being 68 and defying the odds she faced before revolutionary treatment came along.