This has just been running through my mind for a while now. When I tested positive for the HIV virus, I immediately felt that it was the worst that could happen to me! So, I started preparing my seven-year-old son for the ultimate: my untimely death! However, I did not know that life had a separate plan for me. I thought the rest of life's challenges and trials would stop just because I was diagnosed with HIV but I was wrong. Like every other living person, life kept throwing tantrums at me and I had to deal with every day's challenges as they came by. Four years after I knew my status, a...
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Saturday 21st November 2020, as Global Ambassador of The Well Project, I had a time-out with young adolescent kids within and around the community.
To you, all my Amazons! You impact lives and motivate others around you; you all are awesome! Attending different sessions of this series has impacted me in every area of my life during this trying and challenging time of the COVID-19 pandemic. I've been participating in most of the sessions and we have acquired more knowledge in a great way. In these past weeks, it was most of these sessions that really helped pull me through some of my personal challenges and being a part of this also gave me an insight into lots of things, such as planning ahead of time with my budget, income management...
Today I am just going to write all that comes into my mind because I think I am going into depression, that is if I am not already.
Future Assured, an initiative of the Aisha Buhari Foundation ("ABF"), is a non-governmental organization set up with the vision of securing the future for women and children. Her Excellency Dr. Aisha Buhari is the UNAIDS ambassador for the eradication of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. As part of the activities to commemorate the 2019 World AIDS Day event, the foundation organized a one-day sensitization event for corps members and in-school adolescents. Enlightening this community of young persons is key to preventing the spread of HIV. The training was attended by teachers and over a...
This blog is in commemoration of the recent celebration of the International Day of the Girl Child.
I recently came across this news for an upcoming book launch: It has been over 30 years since the onset of the global AIDS epidemic and advances in biomedical research have led to the discovery of effective medicines which for many transformed AIDS from a death sentence to a chronic treatable condition. Yet, the greatest burden of disease remains in parts of the world that struggle to provide drugs for the millions of AIDS patients still in need. Nigeria, the most populous nation on the African continent, continues to bear one of the highest burdens of AIDS, while providing for over one...
This year has been a year of so many challenges and trials. First it was resuming back to work in Abuja and was given a letter of termination of appointment from the organization we work for. Later in the month of March I lost an Aunty--in short from March to November I lost three of my aunties and an in-law.
As an HIV advocate and Global Ambassador to The Well Project one of the planned activities that was carried out this year was to take HIV/AIDS health education and information to young adolescent girls in school and out of school. For the first quarter of the year 2018, we were able to reach four schools and two communities in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria. They included: Kubwa Junior Secondary School (February and May 2018) Government Senior Secondary School Dutse (Revisit) Graceland Nursery & Primary School Waru community Apo Abuja Gosa community hospital FCT Abuja Future on...
It is over fourteen years now, that I told my seven year old son that I have HIV and that I will be dying soon. I told him not to worry too much that my Mum and elder brother will take good care of him, because back then I was a single parent. All the things I told him affected him physiologically and emotionally to the extent that he became absent minded in school and on two occasions, he ran out of home. Four years later, my elder brother was also diagnosed of having the HIV virus and in the year 2005, my mum was diagnosed of have cancer of the lower intestine. I felt devastated as all hope...