Dearest Omo Oodua Readers: How do I inform my siblings our parents died of HIV?

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We spent our youth with a loving mum and dad. Dad was so handsome and kindhearted, mum's hips didn't lie at all with her beauty. As a kid I knew dad was ladies man and he only sleeps at home once or twice a week.

Despite his extreme social life,he cared for his kids 100% although my mum didn't enjoy his company just how a partner should always enjoy her husband. To slice the story short, my father handed down in 2005 after experiencing kidney failure and HIV. Only my dad's younger brother and my mum who took care of him during the condition knew about his HIV status.

HIV Positive Woman deliberatly breast feeds neighbour’s baby

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 A Zimbabwean woman who breastfed her neighbour's baby without her consent faces a possible two-year sentence for deliberately infecting another individual with HIV after she tested positive.

39-year-old Annie Mpariwa appeared in court on Wednesday, the case was moved to October 24 allowing an additional HIV test to be performed on the toddler. The child initial effects were negative.

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Gay P-orn Star, Rod Daily, Announces On Twitter That He Is HIV Positive!!

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A p0rn star has announced that he has contracted HIV, making him the second such adult film actor to contract the disease in less than two weeks. The actor, who goes by his stage name of Rod Daily, announced over Twitter that he has been diagnosed with the virus that causes AIDS. 'Drumroll please!! I'm 32 years old and I'm HIV positive. Acute HIV, which means I recently was infected. For that I am blessed,' Daily wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.  

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Rǻpist Might Have Caught HIV After Rǻping Woman Infected With HIV

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A man who has been jailed for rǻping a woman has been told that he could have contracted HIV as a result of the attack he inflicted upon his victim.

Richard Thomas, 27, collapsed when police informed him about the woman's medical status and is still waiting to hear if he has contracted the incurable virus.

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HIV Infection Is A Blessing To Me- Gloria Asuquo

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From the depths of distress, disillusionment, dejection and the certainty of untimely death occasioned by HIV infection through blood transfusion at the tender age of 12, Gloria Asuquo, has risen to become a vibrant, assertive and ambitious young woman who is taking a decisive and incisive battle to one of the world’s most dreaded infectious disorders – HIV/AIDS.

In an encounter with Sola Ogundipe in Abuja, the energetic 24-year-old recounted the frustrations of living as a pauper in addition to the ignominy of HIV stigma and discrimination.

Today, Gloria who once contemplated death until sheer luck and doggedness turned her fortunes around and brought unhindered access to the elusive, life-saving treatment has undergone a transformation. The same HIV infection that took her to the brink of total despair is today a source of her blessing. How did it happen? She tells it all in this encounter.

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Bone Marrow Transplants: We have the cure for HIV - U.S. researchers

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The cure for the dreaded Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) may be on the way soon with the report yesterday of two patients who were given bone marrow transplants to treat cancer remained free of the virus even after stopping HIV treatment.

The results presented at a meeting of the International AIDS Society in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia may yield growing hope that the virus could someday be cured, not just kept in check with a cocktail of medicines as it is now.

Giving an update in an eagerly followed trial, researchers said an HIV-positive infant in Mississippi, United States, who was put on a course of antiretroviral drugs within a few days of birth had remained free of the AIDS virus 15 months after treatment was stopped.

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Confession: My Husband Brought A Lady Into Our Matrimonial B-éd And Gave Me HIV!

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My husband has finally shattered my heart and I weep as I write. We had difficulties with finances and I tried to contribute the little amount I borrowed from friends. But, we still couldn't make ends meet. Last 8 weeks, he came back home with a lady. He called me in the evening and he said to just keep quiet when he comes back from work.

So, he just came back home with this fair, slim lady. And they slépt together within our matrimonial béd. If anyone said I would experience this in my life, I could not believe it. I slépt in the children's room. All in the evening, I couldn't sleep as I wondered what these were doing….on our matrimonial béd. I cried all night.

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If You Have These Symptoms, Do HIV Test

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The war against HIV/AIDS is far from being over. This is because, globally, more than 34 million people now live with HIV/AIDS, while 3.3 million of them are under the age of 15.

According to amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, which is dedicated to ending the global AIDS epidemic through innovative research, in 2011 alone, an estimated 2.5 million people were newly infected with HIV; and out of these, 330,000 were under the age of 15.

Sad to say, everyday, nearly 7,000 people contract HIV — nearly 300 every hour.

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Chai: Married Atlanta Pastor Arrested For Allegedly Mass Spreading HIV At Church (Pictured)

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Craig Lamar Davis’ mug shot (Fulton County Sheriff’s Office)

An Atlanta church pastor is under fire for allegedly spreading HIV among his church members. At least two victims have come forward to press charges against Pastor Craig Lamar Davis of Atlanta’s Full Gospel Baptist Church.

The shocking news went viral after it was posted on a blog by an angry church member and ex lover of the married pastor.

Davis was arrested and charged with reckless conduct after investigators discovered he was having sex with several women in the church, one of whom reportedly held a leadership position.Davis admitted to investigators that he’s HIV positive and chose to have unprotected sex with these women.

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HIV positive male teacher s-exually abused a boy

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A teacher was arrested after he sexually abused a boy without disclosing he was HIV positive. Mario Hunt is a teacher, an assistant and assistant track coach at the Cahokia high school in Illinois. He is accused of having sex with a boy during school hours.

Hunt, 35, of Cahokia, Illinois is accused of molesting a 17-year-old, boy and exposing him to the HIV virus, and police said more victims have filed reports. Police said Hunt may have spread HIV to children at school after having sex with them knowing that he carries the virus.

HIV-Positive man who INTENSIONALLY infected ‘THOUSANDS’ of Women turns himself Over To Police

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Hundreds of Michigan residents -- and others -- may have been infected with HIV by a man who told police he’d been on a three-year mission to transmit the disease to as many people as he could, MSNBC reports.

Police arrested David Dean Smith, 51, last week after he turned himself in -- and admitted he had unprotected sex with "thousands" of partners with the intention of killing them by infecting them with the virus.

Only two possible victims have yet been identified.

Smith's mission to sicken his lovers likely stretched to other states including anyone he may have seduced via Yahoo! Personals, as he did with the one of two victims who came forward.

Frying Pan To Fire: Doctors save 7-year-old girl from Leukaemia by injecting her with HIV

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US doctors in Philadelphia said they have saved a seven-year-old girl who was close to dying from leukemia with a pioneering use of an unlikely ally: a modified form of the HIV virus.  After fighting her disease with chemotherapy for almost two years and suffering two relapses, the young girl “faced grim prospects,” doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia said.  So in February this year they agreed to take her on in an experimental program that fought fire with fire.