Interview 50  

Interview 50

Age at Interview: 40
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 35
Background: A 40 year-old married black African man with two children, who was born in the UK and is working full-time.

Brief outline:His new born child was diagnosed with HIV, and he and his wife were both subsequently diagnosed with HIV too. His family is in good health and his child is prospering with support from the NHS. (Video and audio clips read by an actor.)

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A husband and wife who both had HIV tried to find the humour in nursing their child who was ill with HIV. (Read by an actor.)

 



We laughed about it, and people look at us: 'Why are you laughing?' We said but if you don't laugh, you go mad. Laughing is important, have fun you, if you don't… Well I don't know it, just, you can't wipe it out of your mind, you see what I'm saying… She [my wife] had to wear gloves and you know the sterile conditions and all that lot. And I mean you did, you laughed at it… you never… did you ever think you were going to end up a nurse? 

Do you see what I'm saying, you never trained to be… Because you couldn't have, it was an open thing, you couldn't afford to be infected at all because that would cause a lot of problems. And then you had to ensure that you gave him his medication on time, the other medication he was going through. You're literally in and out of hospitals you know… he had to be checked up all the time.

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