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Popular Nigerian Gay activist, Bisi Alimi , gay rights activist, public speaker, blog writer and HIV/LGBT advocate who openly declared his HIV status on TV has opened up with his experience with the Human Immune Virus (HIV)
The activist opened up on how he’s been living with HIV and shared how he’s been managing the virus.
He revealed that he had a friend who died from the virus at the age of 26.
On his verified instagram page,Alimi shared the story of how he’s been living with the virus.
He post reads: “Eighteen years ago, at the National AIDS conference in Abuja and with nudging from friends, I walked into a testing booth for the first time. I walked out with HIV positive test result. Two years before then, I had just lost my best friend to AIDS, and he was around 26yrs of age.
I have been living with HIV since I was 29, this year I clocked 47. Between 2004-2009, I kept quiet about my HIV status cos of shame and stigma.
Then I realized, HIV doesn’t kill, it is stigma, the shame and the discrimination that does.
Here is to 18yrs of positivity and many more years to come. Please get tested today.”