Thirty-nine-year-old Kim (not her real name) has been literally living from day to day for the past 15 years and as she enters the New Year she does not see her situation changing because she believes being HIV positive is a case of having “one foot in the grave.”
Even though she is on medication and leads a relatively normal life, Kim said if she had one wish for the New Year it would be to be cured. She said that while she has sought counselling and works along with Guyana Community of Positive Women and Girls (GCWAG) in a bid to empower herself the discrimination she continues to face is “not easy to live with.”
“No matter what people say, we don’t get good treatment and I does always feel like I could die any time. I know anybody could die any time but is like with this thing like I does feel my time is near,” she told the Sunday Stabroek in a recent interview.
So mindful she is of her