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Growing up, I thought I was just a sickly child. I was always in and out of the hospital, always taking medication daily. Whenever I asked why, I was told, “It’s to keep you strong.” I believed them.

At 13, during a routine clinic visit, I overheard two nurses whispering. One said, “That’s the girl born with it.” Born with what?

That sentence wouldn’t leave my mind. That night, I searched through my mother’s drawer and found my hospital file. I saw it clearly written: HIV Positive.

I froze.

Not because I thought I would die immediately, but because everyone seemed to know something about my life that I didn’t. I confronted my mother. She cried. She said she didn’t know how to tell me. She said she was trying to protect me.

Maybe she meant well.

But silence didn’t feel like protection. It felt like loneliness. For years, I swallowed my medication quietly. I avoided deep friendships. I kept people at a distance. I was more afraid of stigma than the virus itself.

Everything changed when I met other young people like me at a support group for students, entrepreneurs, dreamers living boldly. That was when I understood something important:

HIV may be in my blood, but it does not define my future. Today, I take my medication confidently. I live fully. I speak without shame.

Being born with HIV is not a death sentence. But stigma can be.

Nairaland family, if you were in my mother’s shoes, would you have chosen silence or honest conversation? Maybe it’s time we start changing how we talk about children born with HIV.

Abeg make Una carry this una Aids go one side , if you zip up you won’t have aids

A lot of people have HIV and just dont know it.

HIV is not a death sentence anymore. In fact the Haarts treatment makes you Fine , tones ur skin and gives your immune system a big boost

may God help you, it Is well with you, u are just a victim of circumstance.

You could tell this stories without personalizing them.
They pass ok important messages but personalizing every single one takes away some of the message you're trying to pass

Cock and bull stories

Seun da run advert on HIV support organisations on a low key

BY HS STRIPES YOU ARE HEALED IN JESUS NAME...AMEN

Truthsave:
Abeg make Una carry this una Aids go one side , if you zip up you won’t have aids

lol, u suppose dey stay for forest. U no get chill

Here we go again. Another fake story

Your mum meant well, see it from the side of Love.
Thank you for standing up for those living with the virus.

Live your live and enjoy to the fullest. Last last everyone will die. HIV or no HIV

Truthsave:
Abeg make Una carry this una Aids go one side , if you zip up you won’t have aids

Ignorance in display, who tells u it's only caught from sex?
Even if it were, your comment is very insensitive and disrespectful.

At infant stage, she is not to disclose that to you. But at your youth when you became a young adult, she supposed to disclose that to you with medical professional.

publicenemy:
A lot of people have HIV and just dont know it.

That’s not true . You can’t have hiv and don’t know about it. You will see signs or it advance to aids if not treated

Same old story revamped in a manner that this time addressed all my earlier concerns. This version is more believable and yes it is a pertinent concern in our society today, one that we should all look into and fight against

K

Truthsave:
Abeg make Una carry this una Aids go one side , if you zip up you won’t have aids

And who told you say na only through zip down you conract AIDS?

YOU BETTER GO AND CHECK YOUR STATUS

Meaning you mum and dad are HIV positive.

One of them dey cheat on the other that why them no fit tell you.

Truthsave:
Abeg make Una carry this una Aids go one side , if you zip up you won’t have aids

Na wa for you ooo.
Didn't you read she was born with it

Truthsave:
Abeg make Una carry this una Aids go one side , if you zip up you won’t have aids

did you read the write up at all or you just want to pour out your anger on someone

Body is different, there are people with HIV for many years or even till they will die that the viral loads will never increase or make them sick. You can check Google.

Damilola0147:
That’s not true . You can’t have hiv and don’t know about it. You will see signs or it advance to aids if not treated

And who told you say na only through zip down you conract AIDS?

YOU BETTER GO AND CHECK YOUT STATUS


Zip down is the fastest, easiest, quickest and most common way the contract HIV

Na u know how u take get am
Wetin concern us 💁

Truthsave:
Abeg make Una carry this una Aids go one side , if you zip up you won’t have aids

Read before you comment. She didn't contract it from having sex with someone. She was born with it. Could be through blood or something that led to her being born with it. And stop criticizing those who have HIV. You either show compassion on them or shut the F up.

I nearly nack one woman naked yesterday.
But some puna can be ugly shaa

Truthsave:
Abeg make Una carry this una Aids go one side , if you zip up you won’t have aids

Read before you comment. It's the normal thing to do.

Truthsave:
Abeg make Una carry this una Aids go one side , if you zip up you won’t have aids

I am certain you didn't even read befor coming to that conclusion with your shallow mindset!

Truthsave:
Abeg make Una carry this una Aids go one side , if you zip up you won’t have aids

Maybe you should tell us how a newborn is supposed to zip up?
Try to dey read make Una no dey make f0.ols of unasefs.

Hiv better pass cancer you should be grateful!!! If na terminal cancer your eye go first blur
HIV is nothing!!! I mean it when I say it HIV is nothing

HIV still dey exist?

Its like e no potent again

NoWam:
Na u know how u take get am
Wetin concern us 💁

If nothing concern you then run to pages that concerns you,no be must to comment.