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Aged 46-55
Interview 09  

Interview 09

Age at Interview: 49
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 45
Background: A black African female health professional who became unwell while visiting the UK and was shocked by her diagnosis of HIV in 2001.
Brief outline:Now on anti-retroviral treatment (nevirapine, tenofovir, 3TC), she has overcome her isolation mainly through support groups and her Christian church which is accepting of HIV. She still suffers from health problems. (Video and audio clips read by an actor.)

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Did not have enough food to eat with her medication. (Read by an actor.)

 



But when they put me on the, on the, they when they, they started me on the drugs.

Couldn't, I couldn't, I don't know what happened, I kept on vomiting, yeah. And with the infection I had with this… with the… with the… with the salivary gland and I had, I was taking antibiotics as well. 

Then I started with this, with the drugs also, HIV drugs, I could not, it couldn't go into my stomach, I could vomit and I have yeah, diarrhoea and I… did not know that with the… the doctor told me I had to swallow the tablets with the food. I did not have enough food to eat. Yes, so you take it on an empty stomach. It was bad, I ended up in the hospital several times.
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