Interview 18  

Interview 18

Age at Interview: 33
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 27
Background: A 33 year old black African female with a young 5 year old child. She was diagnosed as HIV positive as part of pregnancy screening.

Brief outline:Her current combination of abacavir, AZT and 3TC has few side-effects. She feels much better having started exercising and improving her diet. (Video and audio clips read by an actor.)

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Talks about accepting as well as 'fighting' HIV so as to support health & wellbeing. (Read by an actor.)

 



But with medication, it works. The medication works and you know, there's hope. People just need to realise that once you're infected with HIV it doesn't go away, so there's nothing much you can do about that. 

The most important thing is now to live with it and try to fight the disease and be positive and strong. 

And a lot of it's to do with the mind as well I think, yeah, cos I think if you have a positive mind you're determined not to let it get to you and get you ill. And you're determined to get better or stay well, then that will happen. But if people allow it to depress them then it doesn't help because when you're depressed then it will affect your CD4 count.

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