Next Door Girl

[NACA Nigeria @NACANigeria]

@NextDoorGirl22 thank you so much for your time in the last two days. On behalf of the entire #iSabiHIV campaign team, we say thank you.

[Next Door Girl @NextDoorGirl22]

@NACANigeria My dream is that I want 2 find my way back 2 school and be an advocate for HIV/AIDS. #isabiHiv

[Next Door Girl @NextDoorGirl22]

@NACANigeria Yes.

[Next Door Girl @NextDoorGirl22]

,so I had to meet a bachelor and beg him to allow me in.. u knw men, they can be funny whenever dy see a woman, before u know it... nobody to save me. the rain was heavy I was shouting n nobody cld come out dy didn’t even hear my voice. It led 2 an unwanted pregnancy. #isabiHiv

[Next Door Girl @NextDoorGirl22]

My goal is different from me going to meet a man now…because already a man has already put a stop to my growing. During the stigma I had to sleep in the passage for 2yrs. The trauma will just be there, there was a day a heavy rainfall came n I could not stand it ... #isabiHiv

[Next Door Girl @NextDoorGirl22]

I’m taking my time, I meet guys on a daily basis, men on a daily basis; I just refuse their proposals..i know immediately u tell them they just run away and after that dy will start broadcasting again n all that. #isabiHiv

[Next Door Girl @NextDoorGirl22]

@NACANigeria no. I don’t want 2 have any now, its not as if I don’t see I don’t want to. I want to have somebody that if I tell, he’d stand and he’d not say that ahh Aye ti pari. #isabiHiv

[Next Door Girl @NextDoorGirl22]

As a counsellor tester, I had a client who started crying I'm dead, and I said why are u crying, being HIV positive is not the end of the world and all that and she is btw 22-23 n she said im 2 small to hv hiv and I said I am an adolescent like u and I am hiv positive #isabiHiv

[Next Door Girl @NextDoorGirl22]

so they don’t believe they are like is a lie you have hiv and I say yes that if you see someone that is hiv positive it is possible the person is even stronger and healthier than you that are not HIV positive. #isabiHiv

[Next Door Girl @NextDoorGirl22]

@NACANigeria there was a time we had a program in UNILAG and the youth are like noo una see persin wey get HIV and im just like I am a living witness. You know any time I get stubborn clients I disclose my status. #isabiHiv

[Next Door Girl @NextDoorGirl22]

@NACANigeria If I remove my ear ring now and I have pus and the virus survive in water and I have pus in my earring and she puts it in her own hole, and it pricks her definitely? #isabiHiv

[NACA Nigeria @NACANigeria]

You can guess someone's age. But you can guess your HIV status or that of anyone. #GetTested #iSabiHIV

[NACA Nigeria @NACANigeria]

If you have to counsel young people now. What will you tell them @NextDoorGirl22. #iSabiHIV

[Next Door Girl @NextDoorGirl22]

@NACANigeria ... so most especially the female ones I tell them don’t borrow from each other you don’t know who is who. Let’s forget the unprotected sex now. There was a time I was wearing earing at the counsellor was like please can you give me? #isabiHiv

[Next Door Girl @NextDoorGirl22]

@NACANigeria Young people should be careful, most especially females. Not to borrow earrings. As in me now if I want to put on earing or anything chain or hand chain, if it is not pure gold I will start having rashes so my ear will start bringing out pus. #isabiHiv

[Next Door Girl @NextDoorGirl22]

@NACANigeria Yes it’s herbs.. I cant take herbs … Agbo because of ARV I cant take herbs. before I got reactive I don’t take sugar because I will start stooling but since I started ARV I can take a crate of mineral and nothing will happen. I can eat a lot now. #isabiHiv

[Next Door Girl @NextDoorGirl22]

@NACANigeria I would have rewind that I wont be active and all that…what I passed through then. I would also go back to the facility where I was admitted and correct them about telling people about ones status without the person consent and all that. #isabiHiv

[Next Door Girl @NextDoorGirl22]

@NACANigeria Its one per day, I take lamivudine. Everyday 11pm, even when I’m asleep. I’d have to put my phone on alarm to wake me up, after that I sleep back. #isabiHiv

[Next Door Girl @NextDoorGirl22]

@NACANigeria You know people that got to know then, even now they are like ori won o pe (their head is not correct), aye won ma baje ni (their life will spoil), they said you are HIV positive. you don’t look it. #isabiHiv