{"id":215457,"date":"2025-12-02T02:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-in-mushin-we-dont-give-up-revisiting-bisi-alimis-2024-interview-on-20-years-of-living-with-hiv\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T02:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:21:00","slug":"nigeria-in-mushin-we-dont-give-up-revisiting-bisi-alimis-2024-interview-on-20-years-of-living-with-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-in-mushin-we-dont-give-up-revisiting-bisi-alimis-2024-interview-on-20-years-of-living-with-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: &#8216;In Mushin, We Don&#8217;t Give Up&#8217; &#8211; Revisiting Bisi Alimi&#8217;s 2024 Interview On 20 Years of Living With HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">On World AIDS Day 2024, Nigerian-born rights advocate Bisi Alimi sat down with Vanguardlive to reflect on a milestone many once thought impossible: two decades of living with HIV. A year later, his words still echo with urgency, courage, and the stubborn hope that has defined his journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">Today&#8211;December 1, 2025&#8211;we revisit that powerful conversation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\"><strong>A Diagnosis That Reshaped a Life<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Bisi was 29 when a doctor looked him in the eye&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512010502.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On World AIDS Day 2024, Nigerian-born rights advocate Bisi Alimi sat down with Vanguardlive to reflect on a milestone many once thought impossible: two decades of living with HIV. A year later, his words still echo with urgency, courage, and the stubborn hope that has defined his journey. Today&#8211;December 1, 2025&#8211;we revisit that powerful conversation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":215458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,53009,53008,7207,7712,6545,6886,7741,53007,257,4687,393,22292,254,5114],"class_list":["post-215457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alimis","tag-bisi","tag-dont","tag-give","tag-hiv","tag-interview","tag-living","tag-mushin","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-revisiting","tag-south-africa-today","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}