Mpolo Phutheho: A Life Event Made Me Take Drastic Measure(HIV Advocate)

Mpolo Phutheho shares her life experience on social media , how one simple mistake had cost her a good life ,she wrote:

Gee, having unprotected sex with the wrong guy led to me contracting HIV and being stuck with the consequence of taking a pill my whole life for almost 5 years now. Meanwhile, I had bad vibes about the guy. I knew he was messing around. I had 3 nightmares which were vivid about him - there was a young girl always crying in the dream telling me not to sleep with the guy.

Guess what? I figured: argh it is just a dream. Then I finally left him. After about 4 or 5 months of leaving him, I did my Annual Tests which included HIV and found out I have HIV. Look, much as I am managing fine with the virus and God used it for me to save lives - I became an HIV Advocate, I could have avoided it.

Morale of the story: #Remain Celibate #Condomise and #Follow your gut 

Today I have to go to the Dr. twice a year for my bi-annual tests to ensure all my organs are in order and to get a script for my ART. Look, I am living a normal healthy life since HIV is manageable and to my surprise, I needed to get HIV to really start valuing myself and taking better care of myself. Prior to contracting HIV I had a very low self esteem and after contracting the virus, instead of crying over it, I chose to use it to better the lives of others  and am humbled to say God has used me as a vessel to give hope. What the enemy meant for bad (due to my own negligence as well) is now used for the good of others

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That's me. I am healthy and no one can even tell I have HIV: when I contracted the virus I remember saying this prayer “God, if You help me through this I will save lives, please save me!” That was when I knew about HIV but I was so so terrified of living with it. Little did I know that everything would stay the same, except that I have to take my pill daily.

Thank you oh so much for the positive feedback. Gosh, had I known so many people would be inspired by my story, I would have opened up on Quora about this issue earlier.

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Here is a picture of me prior to the Covid-19 Lockdown. This was taken in February 2020. I am not doing this for the fame, but for awareness purposes and to share that we can overcome anything. We are stronger than we always think and feel we are. Mind you: this picture was taken after I went through a year of bullying at a job where I worked. Would you believe I walked away from the job and that in spite of the Chronic illness (#HIV) - I would go to bed hungry due to the fact that I was jobless. I was so terrified of people I felt there was nowhere for me to turn to seek help. I was a total mess. But again, Gods grace  it saved me. I always say to my Dr. like a cat, I have 9 lives! The moral of the story: please can we be kinder. We dont know what people are going through. I am honestly still recovering from the bullying that took place in 2018 mentally but I am stronger than I have ever been in the past year and a half. Let us be and spread love