Personal account about a family member affected by HIV/AIDS

AIDS KILLS
In October 1985, a close relative of mine was diagnosed HIV Positive at the age of thirty-four. He was beginning a relationship with a girlfriend and he talked her into going for a HIV test. While he was at the medical clinic, he decided to take a test himself too, although the tests concluded that in fact, his girlfriend was negative while he was positive. How the disease was transmitted to him remains unknown although there is a high possibility that he received the virus from a shared needle, as he was a regular heroin injector.
He was working full-time at that period in hi…