Tag "HIV Positive"

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Eez Positive I Positive! I No Kill Person! (Episode 6)

Y’all remember Eddie, right? That ex from my last and shortest-lived relationship? (PS: Does that even qualify to be called a relationship? One month? Does it? Plis, epp me with

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Eez Positive I Positive! I No Kill Person! (Episode 5)

This kovik-wan-nine lockdown did bring a few good things to my life. I don’t have a job, true. But I wasn’t getting stressed by Mother physically. Madam travelled to Lagos

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Eez Positive I Positive! I No Kill Person! (Episode 4)

Shey you see NYSC? That thing issa scam! A federal scam! These people carried me to a glorified village that they call a town, and they expected me to survive

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Eez Positive I Positive! I No Kill Person! (Episode 3)

We were walking down the lawn tennis court, fingers intertwined, enjoying the cool night breeze and the silence around us. It had been three weeks since Eddie asked me to

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Eez Positive I Positive! I No Kill Person! (Episode 2)

My uncle, Mother’s younger brother, visited. It was a weekend in December. Frankly, I could have done without his presence. I was having enough trouble with Mother and my sister

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Eez Positive I Positive! I No Kill Person!

April 2017 It was hard returning home, especially after the craziness that had characterized the last few weeks. It was a hard decision, yet a necessary one. And I knew

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“You have HIV. HIV does not have You.” Activist Morris Singletary is using his story of seroconversion sto help Black Gay Men deal with HIV

Originally published on Queerty   If there’s a person qualified to talk about the personal impact of an HIV diagnosis, it’s Atlanta’s Morris A. Singletary. When he was diagnosed in

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That Zikoko Story About How HIV Changed His Sex Life

Originally published on Zikoko   The following is an interactive session between the interviewer and a 31-year-old queer man living with HIV. He opens up about how sex, relationship and

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THE WAR OF MY MIND OVER BODY

This is going to sound really weird. Especially coming from someone like me. It’s something I’ve spent the past several days trying to understand and failing at it. Which is

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THE LIFE I DIDN’T SEE COMING

EDITOR’S NOTE: I am posting this today to commemorate World AIDS Day, which is on this day, December 1. It is the story of life after a certain death, and