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After discovering HIV at 25, digital influencer helps others with disease: ‘It’s not a death sentence’


After finding out he was HIV positive, he sought support from the networks. Today it is he who offers that support. “It’s an affection that nurtures,” she says

At the age of 25, when he was diagnosed with HIV positive, social communicator David Oliveira searched the Internet for references for support and information, but could not find any. Today, at the age of 31, he is the one who uses social media to give hope to those who have just discovered they have the HIV virus. AIDS. “I was able to be enchanted by this, to be welcomed and also to welcome other people,” she explains.

On the networks he always reveals the medicines he takes, which he calls a “dose of life”. “I always say that my doses of life go beyond the medicine, they are also the messages to those people who come to me,” she says. For David, the importance of exposing his daily life on social networks is to demonstrate that living with the HIV virus is not a death sentence.

On February 14, 2017, David Oliveira was diagnosed as HIV positive. He decided to undergo the test to investigate some symptoms that emerged, such as, for example pneumoniafire of saint Anthony, depression and panic disorder. She discovered that the problems were due to a state of AIDS. That Tuesday morning, when he saw the word “reagent” on the test result, David ran home and told his father, who welcomed him and said that his son was not alone.

With no referrals from digital influencers who spoke openly on the topic, David searched the internet for supportive venues. In an online search, he found an advertisement for an event that spearheaded the empowerment of young people living with HIV/AIDS in a collaborative network. That’s how he met the Reference and Training Center (CRT) in STD/AIDS, in Rua Santa Cruz, in São Paulo. There, David says he was welcomed and embraced by professionals and busy people with HIV issues.

“I began to get to know spaces that allowed me to get in touch with the stories and to study a little more the whole universe that encompasses this new positive life. I was able to be enchanted by it, be welcomed and welcome other people”.

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  • “When we saw the positive result, I hugged him and told him I would be with him. Today my friend continues to live normally. This is an example of a good welcome. Not because I did it, but because he had someone who would hug him and lend a hand,” he says.

    David believes the project helps humanize the HIV positive patient as well as offer support and love. “That look, which is not one of pity or guilt, has to prove that everything will be fine. HIV is not a death sentence, but an opportunity to take care of yourself,” he says. “I know HIV V is a virus, but I like to say it’s a virus.”

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