Teresiah

My name is Teresiah. I faced difficulties and successfully complete my primary education. In my third year in secondary school, my friend and I get into peer pressure and start having relationships. My friend drops out of school but I come back to my senses before I completely mess myself up.

I successfully complete my secondary education. When I go back to school for my leaving certificate. I meet Rick. Rick and I fall in love and one day during the visits to his house I fall pregnant. Rick does not accept that I am pregnant and decides to end our relationship. I give birth in December 2004 to a bouncing baby boy and I vow never to be in a relationship again. Then I meet this handsome man and we fall in love. I forget my vow. Our relationship is getting serious and we have started speaking about getting married. My fiancé starts getting sick. It is in this hospital that I find out that this man has actually been on HIV medication for a while. Regardless of the counseling I have received… I cannot take a HIV test. After living a traumatized life, I decide to take a HIV test and it is positive. My relationship ends and I move in with my sister. I join a support group; it is a good feeling to be in a support group. It gives you the reassurance that you are not alone in this fight.
I have learned to cope with my HIV status.