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| Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by RetroviralS(op): 11:40pm On Sep 22, 2025*. Modified: 3:10pm On Sep 23, 2025 |
Before you scroll past, ask yourself: what does it mean to live with HIV in Nigeria at 20? Not just survive but thrive, build a tech career, and fight for your reputation. ✅I’ve lived through the fear, the stigma, and the silence. ✅I’ve skipped meds and nearly died. ✅I’ve built tech skills and found love. But many AYPLHIV don’t get that chance. ✅We don’t want pity. ✅We want access, support, and respect. That's exactly what we are providing at Retroviral Solutions (RVS) I didn’t choose this path, but I chose how I walk it. If this story made you pause, share it. Let’s change the narrative. #HIVNigeria #YouthEmpowerment #TechInNigeria #RealStories #NairalandVoices
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| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by RetroviralS(op): 11:46pm On Sep 22, 2025 |
RetroviralS:Thanks to everyone reading this. If you have ever felt like, you are not seen, heard and often misunderstood because of your health status, this space is for you. Let's talk. |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by dahgifted(m): 10:46am On Sep 25, 2025 |
This stuff is getting scary as the day goes by.....quick vigor to the affected. |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by Paulscholari(m): 10:47am On Sep 25, 2025 |
Come let me pray for you That HIV will dissappear. Your body is not meant for sickness Divine health is your inheritance And you must receive it. |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by GindoX(m): 10:50am On Sep 25, 2025 |
Shaa no spread am.... And make devil no enter you... That go be bad bad experience... ![]() |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by Kaybaba5(m): 10:50am On Sep 25, 2025 |
I pray for those who are positive God will heal them |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by GindoX(m): 10:52am On Sep 25, 2025*. Modified: 4:48pm On Oct 11, 2025 |
Shaa no spread am.... And make devil no enter you... That go be bad bad experience... ![]() Soon enough, there's going to be cure for most incurable diseases. This I see in vision... Some already cure are kept away from the public for certain reasons... But soon enough everything go soon burst |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by donbuchi1(m): 10:56am On Sep 25, 2025 |
Please tell us how you came into contact with HIV. |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by GenFunction: 10:58am On Sep 25, 2025 |
GindoX:Lol... Sha no spread am Help will come Stay focused and guided |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by Borgia1: 10:59am On Sep 25, 2025 |
Take your drugs and live healthy. Don't overthink it. Most adults stay on one medication or another once they hit 50 anyway. With the advances made in research (like the twice -a-year jab), by the time you hit 30, all this might become just a memory. Best wishes. |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by ogascomax: 11:09am On Sep 25, 2025 |
donbuchi1:How many ways you know. The ways you know is the way to contact it. |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by Chidex369: 11:13am On Sep 25, 2025 |
Nah so one street girl want make I Bleep am without condom. I run for my life |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by MaziObinnaokija: 11:15am On Sep 25, 2025 |
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| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by bigiyaro(m): 11:16am On Sep 25, 2025 |
Am busy arranging my stuff, I don't have time for other people, moreover I no be judge. |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by gbaskiboy: 11:17am On Sep 25, 2025 |
Those infected with HIV none have ever claimed they got it through unprotected sex. |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by nairalanda1(m): 11:20am On Sep 25, 2025 |
dahgifted:Scary ke. If you want to know when it was scary, go back to the late 1990's when drugs were not avaialble for free in this country, and when people who caught the thing were given less than a year to live. Nowadays, we got better regimens. Including one medication that back in the 90's was on the drawing board, now it is avaialble as part of a combination for free. |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by DMCA: 11:20am On Sep 25, 2025 |
RetroviralS:I no go mind sample your girlfriend if her viral load dey very very low sotay e no fit transmit ![]() na fine girl she be? ![]() |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by nairalanda1(m): 11:22am On Sep 25, 2025 |
gbaskiboy:Some do claim they did get it through unprotected sex, but there are those who got it when they were in their mother's womb and those who got it from contaminated blood (this one is no longer common thanks to strict blood protocols...last time I saw a person who got hiv from transfusion was in 2009 |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by Depriest2020: 11:23am On Sep 25, 2025 |
OP a question for you. Have you had sex with someone you didn't tell about your status? |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by Kingpele(m): 11:31am On Sep 25, 2025 |
It is only HIV people are afraid of been positive....please don't spread it I take God beg you...with time.. cure will come but live your life positively, life no hard na people dey put themselves on unnecessary pressure |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by Boomyvig: 12:00pm On Sep 25, 2025 |
May the creator of this earth and heaven breathe peace , healing and happiness into your existence. Your victory is near. Many people are going through serious depression which is way deadlier than HIV. Do not worry about your situation. Those you see out there are fighting for happiness and several other key life goals that’s giving them sleepless night. The world is a market place. We all came and we shall all return to that same place we came from. |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by VaginaAcademic: 12:09pm On Sep 25, 2025 |
This is why I prefer to just dey soapy dey go I no want anything stress. |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by Ttipsy(f): 12:38pm On Sep 25, 2025 |
VaginaAcademic:lol you may have to stop now okay …. You get exhausted |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by Olachase(m): 12:41pm On Sep 25, 2025 |
Please try to upload your picture so I can know you in person Mk person no go gam Aghako |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by airsaylongcome: 12:42pm On Sep 25, 2025 |
This Retroviral Solution moniker is so blatantly hawking it’s disgusting. Add to that using AI generated write up. Block for three weeks repeatedly. That’s what I’ve been using to rest from EyeofLagos and all their alts |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by mecuries(m): 12:55pm On Sep 25, 2025 |
Hold on a little bit longer.... There has been a scientific breakthrough for the cure of HIV |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by ChohuRigwe: 12:57pm On Sep 25, 2025 |
VaginaAcademic:You fit dodge soapy come get am for salon or other means |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by Teymanhenry(f): 1:33pm On Sep 25, 2025 |
Paulscholari:Let’s Set the Record Straight About HIV 🚨 Enough with the fear-mongering and misplaced pity. HIV is NOT a death sentence, and it’s about time we stopped treating it like one. Yes, prayer is important for many — but let’s be real: prayer doesn't manage HIV. Science, medication, and support do. When taken properly and consistently, HIV treatment (ARVs) makes the virus undetectable — and untransmittable. That means you can live a full, healthy, and long life like anyone else. 💊 HIV is manageable. Stigma is the real killer. Many other illnesses are more severe, yet people don’t get shamed for them. So why the hate toward people living with HIV? It’s ignorance. And it needs to stop. To every PLHIV out there: ✨ You can 1. go to school 2. You can work in tech, on a farm, in an office — anywhere 3. You can fall in love, get married, and have healthy children 4. You can travel, dance, create, and build your future 5. You can live boldly, freely, and fully 💥 Your life is not over. It’s just different — and that’s okay. Don't internalize the stigma. Don’t let society’s ignorance shape your self-worth. Your diagnosis does NOT define you. What defines you is how you choose to live after. So take your meds. Hold your head high. And know this: you are not broken. You are powerful. |
| Re: Read This Before You Judge Me: I’m 20, and HIV Positive. by Lifenajeje2(m): 1:52pm On Sep 25, 2025 |
gbaskiboy:Many do I tell people it definitely was a as a result of unprotected sex cos my first Gono experience was at age 13 and syphilis at 16 So definately I say it loud to who cares to listen Your sure plug for PEP PrEP HIV self testing kits and other scarce drugs |
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