A young woman named Doreen Moraa Moracha is happily celebrating her 28th anniversary of living with HIV, according to her social media post.
According to the young woman born in 1992, she would have come into the world with the disease. Sharing her photos, she wrote:
«Living with HIV since 1992 (the year I was born) I have been taking ARVs since 2005. Tested and officially diagnosed on my 8th birthday 20 years ago. I am taller than HIV. I am a beautiful story.
”28 years ago, the Moracha family were lucky enough to have a baby girl, her name Doreen Moraa Moracha. 8 years later, she was diagnosed with HIV. There was no ARV and no hope that she would live until her 28th birthday today. I celebrate life because I AM BIGGER THAN HIV and the fabulous hostess of a little guest. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME”.
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus that attacks cells that help the body fight infection, making the person more vulnerable to other infections and diseases. It is spread through contact with certain bodily fluids of an HIV-positive person, most often through unprotected sex (sex without a condom or anti-HIV medication to prevent or treat HIV), or through sharing of HIV equipment. drug injection.
If left untreated, HIV can lead to the disease AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).
The human body cannot get rid of HIV, and there is no effective cure for HIV. So once you have HIV you have it for life.
However, by taking anti-HIV drugs (called antiretroviral therapy or ART), people with HIV can live long and healthy lives and avoid passing HIV to their sexual partners.
But there may be a silver lining with further advances in the search for a cure to fight HIV, as demonstrated by this report published last July where a Brazilian became the first person to be “cured” of HIV with drugs. .
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