{"id":42888,"date":"2024-08-19T23:30:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T23:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/manuel-guerrero-avina-i-never-thought-id-return-home\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T23:30:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T23:30:10","slug":"manuel-guerrero-avina-i-never-thought-id-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=42888","title":{"rendered":"Manuel Guerrero Avi\u00f1a: &#8216;I never thought I&#8217;d return home&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manuel, who is living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus, was also supported by HIV charities in the UK, after claims he had not been given regular access to his medication, which keeps the virus under control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: \u201cI had to beg on a daily basis to prison officers to try and get access to my medication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a really difficult time for me without access to my medication, because you\u2019re worried about the effects on your health and it also has an impact on your mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now back in the UK, Manuel says, he is receiving medical attention and slowly becoming more able to be his true self.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIt\u2019s not about seeing symbols everywhere like rainbows or flags,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It\u2019s more that it feels amazing to be able to recover some of the small things that you don\u2019t realise you\u2019ve lost until you have them back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cThings like seeing people holding hands in the street, being able to be affectionate with my friends without thinking about how we\u2019re interacting, being able to do that without it being behind closed doors.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c3vxddzr2z5o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manuel, who is living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus, was also supported by HIV charities in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2350,2349,472,2348,1910,2351],"class_list":["post-42888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-avina","tag-guerrero","tag-home","tag-manuel","tag-return","tag-thought"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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