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Breaking the news to her wasn’t the easiest thing to do and I knew

her reaction, she left her sons husband to come and see me in

Athens. Why are you here? Mother will be suspicious and she was

but we never said anything to her.

Months pass by with no improvement from Nikos while in the

Hospital I was going everyday to keep him company, I was playing a

dead game I knew we lost but have to be in the game till th end.

The room they put him was a small smell bleach shower the nurses

open the door lunch time and they use to throw the food on the floor

no one nurse put the food on the table.

Two beds in the room and the first week they bought a third man

HIV in there and he was a priest.

All the time in the Hospital no one came to visit him he was all alone

and I knew the why.

Things you need to know

It is widely believed that HIV originated in Kinshasa, in the

Democratic Republic of Congo around 1920 when HIV crossed

species from chimpanzees to humans.

Up until the 1980s, we do not know how many people were infected

with HIV or developed AIDS. HIV was unknown and transmission

was not accompanied by noticeable signs or symptoms.

While sporadic cases of AIDS were documented prior to 1970,

available data suggests that the current epidemic started in the mid-

to late 1970s. By 1980, HIV may have already spread to five