About this independent New Zealand guide

Why this website exists

Positive Singles New Zealand is an independent informational website for New Zealanders who are dating — or thinking about dating — while living with a sexually transmitted infection. It exists because the hardest part of STI dating is rarely the medical side; it is the social side: disclosure anxiety, stigma, and the feeling of having to explain yourself over and over.

We research and explain how communities like PositiveSingles work from a New Zealand perspective, and we publish practical guides on disclosure, privacy, safety and getting back into dating after a diagnosis.

Who we write for

People across New Zealand living with herpes, HIV, HPV and other STIs — whether diagnosed last week or twenty years ago — plus anyone who wants clear, stigma-free information about what STI dating communities actually involve.

Our editorial approach

1. Original content. Every page on this site is written by us, in New Zealand English, for a New Zealand audience. We do not copy material from PositiveSingles or from health websites.
2. Accurate and sourced. Where health facts appear, they come from authoritative New Zealand sources such as Health New Zealand, the NZ Herpes Foundation and Burnett Foundation Aotearoa, and we link to them.
3. No invented claims. We do not publish member statistics we cannot verify, fake reviews, invented success stories or false urgency of any kind.
4. No stigma. We avoid language that frames people with STIs as anything other than ordinary adults with ordinary dating lives.

Our relationship with PositiveSingles

Medical-information limitations

Nothing on this website is medical advice. We write about dating, community, privacy and communication. For anything about diagnosis, treatment, transmission or testing, please see your GP or one of the authoritative organisations in our New Zealand resource directory.