{"id":19362,"date":"2019-02-22T19:48:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T19:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19362"},"modified":"2019-02-22T19:48:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T19:48:08","slug":"i-cried-most-days-how-inspiring-hiv-campaigner-labelled-as-dirty-fought-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/i-cried-most-days-how-inspiring-hiv-campaigner-labelled-as-dirty-fought-back\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I cried most days\u2019 &#8211; how inspiring HIV campaigner labelled as \u2018dirty\u2019 fought back"},"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><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive lazyImage lazy-hidden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ipswichstar.co.uk\/polopoly_fs\/1.5899708.1550752393!\/image\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/landscape_630\/image.jpg\" alt=\"Becky Kroger, from Ipswich, has been nominated for an award for her HIV campaigh work. Picture: BOND\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"seedtag-gohan seedtag-adunit st-in-image\">\n<div class=\"st-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-image-info\">\n<p class=\"article-image-caption\">Becky Kroger, from Ipswich, has been nominated for an award for her HIV campaigh work. Picture: BOND<\/p>\n<p>Born in South Africa with HIV, which damages the immune system and makes it difficult for the body to fight infections, she knew no other life than one with daily rounds of medication.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in a children\u2019s home, she did not even understand the seriousness of her own condition until, aged six, she started asking questions of the adults looking after her. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipswichstar.co.uk\/news\/youth-stop-aids-campaigner-becky-kroger-ipswich-suffolk-bond-international-development-awards-association-1-5899484\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\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>Becky Kroger, from Ipswich, has been nominated for an award for her HIV campaigh work. Picture: BOND Born in South Africa with&#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-19362","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\/19362","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=19362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}