LGBTQ activist, Bisi Alimi has revealed his opinion that no amount of prayers and fasting will cure a person living with human immunodeficiency virus – HIV. Esabod global news reported that Alimi gained international attention when he became the first Nigerian to come out on television to reveal that he has HIV. Bisi Alimi shares his story Alimi also took to his Instagram page where he shared his ‘HIV and Me’ story. He wrote, “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. 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 realised, HIV doesn’t kill, it is stigma, the shame and the discrimination that does. Here is to 18yrs of positivity and many mor...
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