{"id":19526,"date":"2019-03-02T09:51:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T09:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19526"},"modified":"2019-03-02T09:51:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T09:51:15","slug":"my-battle-with-hiv-and-cancer-of-the-vulva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/02\/my-battle-with-hiv-and-cancer-of-the-vulva\/","title":{"rendered":"My battle with HIV and cancer of the vulva"},"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><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/images\/saturday\/xxslir7poxmzirav5vk5c7a28e6f18cb.jpg.pagespeed.ic.YEnjq-P7Mt.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><em><strong>Serah Mwangi teaches English and Literature and Afraha High School in Nakuru County.<\/strong><\/em> [Harun Wathari, Standard]<\/p>\n<p>In 1997, my husband died from a HIV\/AIDS related illness. But before he died, he confessed it.<\/p>\n<p>I suspected I was infected as well but I didn\u2019t have courage to go for the test, I was also in denial. I lived in denial for a while convincing myself that I was not infected. One day, I developed chest problems and began coughing sporadically. I remember people glancing in my direction and chattering behind my back.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/health\/article\/2001314979\/my-battle-with-hiv-and-cancer-of-the-vulva\">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>Serah Mwangi teaches English and Literature and Afraha High School in Nakuru County. [Harun Wathari, Standard] In 1997, my husband died from&#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-19526","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\/19526","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=19526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}