The region’s Men’s Sheds are to benefit from a funding reprieve after the Scottish Government announced it would restore previously pulled support for this year.
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A woman who was diagnosed with HIV when she used a home STI test kit feared she wouldn't live to see her son grow up. Shauna Davies got the life-changing news when she was aged 25.
Now, two years on, the 27-year-old has come to terms with her diagnosis and wants to educate others about living with the condition, which she says is no longer the 'death sentence' it was once considered to be, Wales Online reports.
Shauna, from Port Talbot, Wales, first discovered she had HIV after using a simple at-home STI testing kit. Upon hearing her diagnosis over the phone, Shauna thought she had 'weeks to live' and her first thought was that she needed to make a will.
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She said: "I went for the full MOT which included a blood test. I then had a phone call from Singleton sexual health clinic that said I tested positive for an STI but they didn't say which one. I rang back a few days later and they said I tested positive for HIV. My first reaction was: 'What do you mean?'
"I didn't know anything about HIV at the time. When she said HIV the first thing I said was: 'I'm not gay and I'm not a man.' This was obviously before I understood exactly what it was."
Shauna said she rang her mum up and told her she had Aids, as she didn't understand at the time that they were two different things. Aids (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is a fatal condition that develops in the late stages of HIV once a person's immune system has been attacked. It often takes years to develop following HIV infection in an untreated but otherwise healthy person.
Shauna added: "It wasn't until I researched it and met with people from the Terrence
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