my name is salman i am Hiv + the stigma and the pain that i felt and i am still felling from 2017 it was after 2 years of telecommunication free internship they ask for job health checkup and the company kicked me out of my job and it was life big shock cause after that they even give my file to other company so they never hire me cause the were scared of them image in the eyes of the population everyone is scared of people with HIV+ and the judgment here is with different levels i have cried a lot cause i felt the rejection from the job every time they know my HIV+ condition , from hospital even though i tell them by myself just in case so they clean them tools good before next patient and the make me ashamed the shootdown me in many times i swear it was so much pain , community cause they always will make you feel ashamed when they know about it even family here disowned you that’s why i am scared to tell all my family cause if i get kicked out of my family home i don’t have nowhere to go cause if you rent house with my condition here and the house owner know kick you out if they know you are HIV+ i was so scared first time i know my condition cause i was in dangerous level they told me you almost in aids condition .
and here in Somalia one’s they know you have HIV + they call it aids and they think you will kill them even i even went to some doctors for my teeth pain and they were scared of me after i told them my condition to take care of them tool's and i have been rejected to receive the care i was looking for and kicked out, i was scared that i'll die then i started illegal immigrants to Yemen cause i was looking for chances in life but it was 2017 the war was going on i been kidnapped 3 times and in checkpoint they didn't know about my medicine and they thought it was drugs so they made me suffer beating i was there for almost 7 month's no medicine and after all the hard time i fly to Egypt which will never give you medicine up to year and some people wait more i couldn't handheld after so i came back to Somalia hopping to get my medicine at least to take care of my health , i am looking for job . Yah i am looking for a life i build with my other half cause i can't have any relationship because of my condition, yah i am looking for a job and after asking the government and NGOs working for the people living with hiv here in Somalia hargeisa I found out how much corporation there is and how much bad they treat us and how much they they using the stigma on us and they hide it from the world by threats and I even been threaten that I can talk about it or my family will all know about my hiv condition and they will kill me if I talk about it, I am really in need for life without discrimination and life without stigma, it's been 8 years and i here i am ...
with your help i want to live and i want to love and i want to be healthy
and here in Somalia one’s they know you have HIV + they call it aids and they think you will kill them even i even went to some doctors for my teeth pain and they were scared of me after i told them my condition to take care of them tool's and i have been rejected to receive the care i was looking for and kicked out, i was scared that i'll die then i started illegal immigrants to Yemen cause i was looking for chances in life but it was 2017 the war was going on i been kidnapped 3 times and in checkpoint they didn't know about my medicine and they thought it was drugs so they made me suffer beating i was there for almost 7 month's no medicine and after all the hard time i fly to Egypt which will never give you medicine up to year and some people wait more i couldn't handheld after so i came back to Somalia hopping to get my medicine at least to take care of my health , i am looking for job . Yah i am looking for a life i build with my other half cause i can't have any relationship because of my condition, yah i am looking for a job and after asking the government and NGOs working for the people living with hiv here in Somalia hargeisa I found out how much corporation there is and how much bad they treat us and how much they they using the stigma on us and they hide it from the world by threats and I even been threaten that I can talk about it or my family will all know about my hiv condition and they will kill me if I talk about it, I am really in need for life without discrimination and life without stigma, it's been 8 years and i here i am ...
with your help i want to live and i want to love and i want to be healthy
