'After years of fighting, my fighter cells are disarmed.”
After 22 years of living healthily with HIV, radio personality Criselda Kananda has started a course of antiretroviral medication .
She revealed she had tested negative for Covid-19, but said the HIV in her body was “having a live concert”. "I am HIV-positive and in all the years I have known my status I have never taken ARVs. Those come into play when your CD4 count is lower than 250. In this country, that is the standard that is set."
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