Sharing her experience, 41-year-old Naomi Ireri revealed how she contracted HIV from a one night stand, leading to the end of her relationship with the father of her child.
During an interview with BBC, Ireri recounted her encounter with a man she had only known for a week, who ceased communication after their sexual encounter.
She later discovered her HIV-positive status while pregnant with another man’s child, whom she had started dating subsequent to the one night stand.
“When I went to do blood tests, the results took longer than I had been told and so I started questioning why my results were taking that long. That was when they told me I was positive”
She expressed her concern for the father of her baby, who tested negative for the virus.
“I wondered how comes I was positive and he was negative and that was when I remembered there was a man I had a one-night stand with.”
Following the test results, her romantic relationship with the father of her child came to an end, although he assured her of his commitment to their child.