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The beginning of another life.

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My name is Lisungu and I am 36 years old. I was diagnosed with HIV in 1996.

My mother is familiar with the symptoms of AIDS related illnesses. She has witnessed best friends, sisters and brothers passing away because of AIDS. It gave her the guts to convince me to own up and know my status. "How could my own mother suspect that I am HIV positive?" I asked myself. I was bold enough to take the test; I could not believe it when the results showed that I was HIV positive. My thinking was the only people who tested positive were prostitutes or people who were promiscuous, poor, or uneducated. I thought, "It wasn't me, it couldn't be!" I guess this started the long journey of my denial and my coping with the fact that I am HIV positive.

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My late husband died eight months later. He died in my arms at home. I would have taken my husband to a hospice but I did not know about this service. I had met him while I was studying at University of Zimbabwe in 1990.

I experienced a lot of emotions like depression, stress, anger, and many others as a result of testing...

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