"It was June 16, Youth Day. An NGO came to my school to educate us about HIV. Someone asked me if I wanted to take a HIV test. Being young and innocent, I agreed. My result came back positive. I could not understand it because I had never had sex. "That’s when I found out what killed my parents: they both died from HIV-related diseases. Because they both passed when I was so young, I didn’t know what killed them. I was born HIV positive. "I was living with my aunt but I was too afraid to tel...
Some of my friends have HIV. Others have hepatitis C. “I’m scared and I don’t know what to do.” State, county and city officials throughout the Bay Area say they are scrambling to...
“People are scared,” B says. “We should work quietly... In the early 1980s, HTLV-1 and HIV were discovered around the... Springs, I wouldn’t have even had the test. I still would...
PrEP has been shown to be safe and effective in clinical trials that have taken place in many countries, including South Africa, and is approved by the South African Medicines Control Council (MCC). Taken as a single pill once dai ...
As part of a BBC series on Aids, people living with HIV from around the world tell their own stories in their own words. ; Niza, 32, lives in Mexico City with her parents and her beloved 10-year-old son. ; One of the best things I ever did was to become a mother - my son is the beautiful result of unprotected sex.
비활성화된 HIV I was born with HIV. 전 HIV를 갖고 태어났습니다 When you inject an HIV virus into our very-sick little boy. 천부 대최동맥이 찢어졌어 방금 메러디스한테 들었는데...
Julia Stambler isn't scared boyfriend Charlie Sheen has HIV ... and she wants to spread the word it's not a relationship buzzkill. Sources close to the new couple tell us ... Julia and...
Her boyfriend was a drug addict of 30, who knew he had the disease, but failed to tell her. He is now dead. ; Montse, who lived in Spain, knew little about HIV/Aids. She thought it was "a disease of prostitutes, drug addicts and gay men". ; She didn't think that she could be at any risk.
As told to Erica Rimlinger ; Scientists didn’t know much about HIV either and were just beginning to learn. The only known fact about HIV was that it was a certain death sentence. When my partner told me he was a former drug user, I said, “Let’s get tested.” But he insisted we were fine. We weren’t sick, after all. But I heard you could be HIV-positive and have no symptoms. I kept telling myself it was unlikely, but deep down I was scared. Then we both contracted a flu-like virus. We w...
She would always have her dogs! She had the biggest heart and she was so passionate about... about HIV and AIDS as well. Cookie and I were passionate about the same things. I think that’s...