Nigeria: A Network of People Living With HIV Fighting Stigma in Plateau State

Dorcas Daniel Tyena (Lead writer)

About 80% of new HIV infections in Nigeria are sexually transmitted from unprotected consensual intercouse. While some are diagnosed with the virus at birth, others, like Rose Gyang, 45, contracted it through rape.

Nine years ago, Zadchlo International Foundation (ZIF), a nonprofit organisation working to improve the quality of life for young people living with HIV and AIDS in Plateau State of Nigeria, conducted a medical examination on Rose. She was diagnosed as…