How I contracted HIV after cheating on my wife for the first time — Nigerian man opens up

Salisu Ahmed, a Nigerian man, has opened up about how an extramarital affair cost him his health, marriage and job.

Ahmed, in a recent interview with reality star Doyin David,  revealed that he contracted the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) after his first extramarital sexual encounter.

Ahmed, who have been living with the virus for 31 years opened up the stigma he faced, including being denied access to a shared toilet and bathroom, losing his teaching job, and being abandoned by his wife and children.

“I am Salisu Ahmed, I have been living with this virus for 31 years,” he said.

“The first experiment of going outside my matrimonial home is how it happened. It has been proven that about 85 to 90 percent of people living with HIV contracted this thing through sexual intercourse.

“I was denied the use of the bathroom of the compound, I was not allowed to access the toilet, I was formerly a teacher so I was asked honourably to stop coming to the school.

“She packed everything including the children at home, they left me.”