"[3] In December of that year, in fear of how the illness would affect him he attempted suicide: "the voice of my mother was in my head, she would say, 'you have to clean up your own mess!'

He continued to live his life, immersing himself in volunteering and completing education courses, ultimately obtaining a diploma in tailoring and working on theatre productions and eventually becoming an assistant pattern cutter for the English National Opera.

In 1996 he decided to start medical treatment, a combination of D4T, DDI and Nevirapine, and after 4 weeks felt the effects, describing his sudden surge of energy as "Lazarus raised from the dead".

[7] He has volunteered at various HIV drop-in centres including The Landmark in Brixton/Tulse Hill; Lighthouse South London; the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT); and The Food Chain.

He was the Face of THT's first safer sex poster aimed at gay men and took part in Peter Cash's HIV Monologues (2016–18).