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What Would You Do If This Was In The United States? “I Would Rather Die”: Kenyan Gay And Bisexual Men’s Experiences Seeking Healthcare.
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Young gay and bisexual men in Kenya experienced high levels of stigma and discrimination in public healthcare facilities, while reporting more positive experiences in private and gay-friendly clinics. Online interventions were seen as a way of catering to priority needs and reducing stigmatising experiences, according to a recent qualitative study.
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“I would rather die”: Kenyan gay and bisexual men’s experiences seeking healthcare
“I would rather die”: Kenyan gay and bisexual men’s experiences seeking healthcare
posted February 21
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A myHIVteam Member

Huntington live in being able to live with treatment is the way to go but if it's no treatment and you can't get away for treatment and you have that the wall is so large you can't climb it then you would accept what you can enjoy the days that you feel good and when you start getting weaker look towards me a big picture unless by sudden miracles that allow treatment to be shipped in and you can be treated then I would say I have done my best take me for my rest and let my it suffering and it would be the humanitarian way to do it and sure people will miss you but you know they have to understand what you are suffering and love you don't want to go or no other options and you may as well take an easier route and look for the rest and pray for the mercy of taking your life up on the Lords that you don't feel like an outcast wherever you go

posted February 23
A myHIVteam Member

I feel for my HIV infected Brothers & Sisters in All of Africa but Especially in Countries like Kenya & Uganda. Sadly I Can Understand Wanting to Be Dead & If It Were That Way Here I Feel / Think That Same Way Possibly To The Point Where Suicide Could Be An Option If I Were Unable To Leave/Escape To a Country Where I Could Get The Care I Desperately Would Need.

Heartbreaking to Even Consider Such An Action.

posted February 21
A myHIVteam Member

Horrible and judgmental, should never be a part of healthcare. @A myHIVteam Member.

Uganda is again demonizing the sick and marginalized. It's cruel, and produces nothing positive. It's just hate.

In the USA, we are using the same ugliness towards trans people. It is no more forgivable. We know better.

posted February 21 (edited)
A myHIVteam Member

I would have found the. Way to eternal rest .if there is no treatment that would have been my option even here I the way to dying would have been more humane for then fat wasting and pain until too weak to go on.inhave been on top of my health issues myself and none to support me so my decision .

posted February 21
A myHIVteam Member

The thing about ending life is that we should always want one more day. When you finally come to a place where you no longer want one more day, sleep on it one more night.

posted February 24

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