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Today is #WorldAIDSDay and I'm reflecting on the time that I got my first voluntary HIV test.
Wait.
I take that back. I am reflecting on the time that I decided to submit a narrative about my experience getting my first voluntary HIV test for publication.
Meta, I know.
Today is #WorldAIDSDay and I'm reflecting on the time that I got my first voluntary HIV test.
Wait.
I take that back. I am reflecting on the time that I decided to submit a narrative about my experience getting my first voluntary HIV test for publication.
Meta, I know.
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So I'd written this narrative back in 2008. And the fast story is that it was about me being a hypocrite about pressing a patient to be tested for HIV when I had never been voluntarily tested myself. Why?
Because I was scared.
Yup.
So I'd written this narrative back in 2008. And the fast story is that it was about me being a hypocrite about pressing a patient to be tested for HIV when I had never been voluntarily tested myself. Why?
Because I was scared.
Yup.
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I put that all on paper. Spoke this truth about being afraid and how my fear was rooted in the growing numbers of Black women impacted by HIV.
I mean. That's what I told myself.
But then I asked my colleague/wondertwin @DMalebranche to read it & give me some peer feedback.
I put that all on paper. Spoke this truth about being afraid and how my fear was rooted in the growing numbers of Black women impacted by HIV.
I mean. That's what I told myself.
But then I asked my colleague/wondertwin @DMalebranche to read it & give me some peer feedback.
Story Time: How I Contract #HIV
*Trigger Language Warnings*
It was a night in January 2007 and I was home on leave from the Navy after graduating from Boot Camp. Took 12 days of leave to visit family before reporting to my first duty station in Mississippi. (1)
*Trigger Language Warnings*
It was a night in January 2007 and I was home on leave from the Navy after graduating from Boot Camp. Took 12 days of leave to visit family before reporting to my first duty station in Mississippi. (1)
So the 2 night prior to leaving I met this guy online, he was 30 and I was 18. He invited me over to his place to have sex; so I stopped & picked up condoms before arriving. Once I get there we talked before moving to the next thing. (2)
Everything was going okay and protection is being used. What happens next is when my life was changed. He whispers in my ear that he wants to take the condom off because it will feel better. I tell him "No thank you, I'm not interested in doing that." (3)
The First Lady Of Lagos @JokeSanwoolu represented by Dr. Omobolanle Johnson, The CEO, LSACA, Dr. Monsurat Adeleke,The HOS @HMOKUNOLA1
Honourable Commissioner For Health @ProfAkinAbayomi Oba Oniru of Iru Kingdom @HRMOniru PS Health Service Commission, Dr. Eniayewun Ademuyiwa
Honourable Commissioner For Health @ProfAkinAbayomi Oba Oniru of Iru Kingdom @HRMOniru PS Health Service Commission, Dr. Eniayewun Ademuyiwa
and the Strategic Intervention Adviser UNAIDS, Dr. Modupe Oduwole, and the Representatives of CiSHAN SouthWest and other partners flagging off HIV Self Testing In South West, Nigeria, today during the celebration of World AIDS Day at Orientals Hotel, Lekki.
