{"id":19356,"date":"2019-02-22T08:16:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T08:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19356"},"modified":"2019-02-22T08:16:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T08:16:54","slug":"my-own-brother-now-says-he-is-ashamed-to-call-me-his-sister-because-i-have-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/my-own-brother-now-says-he-is-ashamed-to-call-me-his-sister-because-i-have-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;My own brother now says he is ashamed to call me his sister because I have HIV&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"ImgMask\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"imgArticle\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/8282\/7125459a6f824713bac979b43fcf45f5.jpg\" alt=\"HIV-positive\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In some communities people are still uninformed about HIV\/Aids. \u00a0~<\/p>\n<p>Thandolwethu Prudence Zitha says cutting all bonds with her family has been a good thing for her, as it has helped her maintain gratitude for her life and enabled her to instead surround herself with people who love her unconditionally.<\/p>\n<p>Zitha said that from the moment she found out she was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health24.com\/Medical\/HIV-AIDS\/HIV-FAQ\/Im-HIV-positive-what-now-20120721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HIV positive<\/a>, she experienced stigma and discrimination from her family.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health24.com\/News\/Public-Health\/my-own-brother-now-says-he-is-ashamed-to-call-me-his-sister-because-i-have-hiv-20190221-2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>In some communities people are still uninformed about HIV\/Aids. \u00a0~ Thandolwethu Prudence Zitha says cutting all bonds with her family has been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}