Chronicle Of A Person Living With A Positive Status...

I remember an incident that happened on our street when we were still very young and uninformed.



There was this woman in our street, she runs a mini store where she sells provisions and raw foodstuffs. 

Her husband is hardly at home,he was a contractor, rumour has it that he hit one big contract and he started living recklessly...

 He got sick after sometime and was bedridden for sometime, then hiv and ARV wasn't rampant , the man later died and we heard he died and news filtered out from one of the nurses taking care of him that he died of hiv.

Everyone including myself stopped buying things from her for fear of catching hiv, we stigmatized that woman, looking back now I feel so bad the way we all treated her but we also didn't know better. 

She had to relocate from our area and moved somewhere else despite the fact that the house was built by her husband but she left because she couldn't bear the pain of stigmatisation.
She used to sell the best soya milk then that we all loved. We were all scared that maybe we had contacted it from the drink . But now that I know about the virus, it's not possible to contact hiv through food or drink, hiv is very fragile that it can't survive for long outside a living host.

Even all the stories of people contacting hiv from sharing of brush is not true, toothpaste has enzymes that destroys hiv,that's how fragile the virus is. But we all know one can contact germs or hepatitis from that so it's still not advisable to share personal stuffs..

Last I heard of the woman is that she started working with a foundation that cares for hiv victims and vulnerable children and she is still very much alive.