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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Lucy John & Fionnula Hainey

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Mum finds out she has hiv after using home sti test kit - The Untold Story

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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