Will you tell your Parents & Siblings if you were HIV positive after HIV test?!?

If i were your friend, i would probably decide not to tell it to anyone too. But, for sure, I would tell it to my parents because they have the right to know. Try to ask your friend what if someone he loves so much is sick and dying, wouldn't he want to know about it? How would he react if he found out that the person he'd loved so much was dying and that he didn't know anything about it? I bet he'd get mad because when you love someone, you would want to know everything about him/her. You would want to be there for him/her, to comfort and help him/her in every way you can. It would be so unfair to his loved ones if he wouldn't tell it to them now. It would be beneficial on his part if he would tell it to his family because he would need their moral support, love and care. He should not deprive his family of showing him the love he deserves. Being a friend, you have the power to convince him to let him feel the love of his family, as well as convince him that having AIDS doesn't mean it's the end of the world for him. Thinking about it won't help. Positive outlook in life, helps.

One thing I do want to tell you, and that is this, eventually your friend is going to get so sick, and his family will find out any way. Then they will be hurt because he didn't tell them earlier. Then they will be thinking. "Why didn't he trust us enough to tell us?" Does he want that to happen? Now as for me, there are things going on with me health wise, not HIV, but my heart, that I have not told my family. But, reasoning there is, my family (what's left of it) are not that close. It is totally up to your friend whether or not he tells his family. But, I don't want to see him hurt them, and I do not want to see you put in the middle of it either. For if they know you, and find out you knew.....what will that do? Think about it from all aspects.

Maybe i won't tell it to my siblings but i will tell it to my parents, because as their daughter, it is my responsibility to tell them everything that's happening to me. As our parents, they have the right to know everything about us, because if i were in their shoes, i definitely wouldn't want any of my children to keep secrets from me especially if it's about their health. I wouldn't want my parents to keep secrets from me either, because i love them so much that i would really want to know everything that's happening to them. If people can tell their secrets to their friends, why can't they tell it to their family? We are a part of our family. Our parents should be our best friends. A family has one heart in which every member is connected to it. Your friend should tell his condition to his parents for them to be ready for whatever might happen to him. He doesn't want them to know 'coz he doesn't want them to feel sad, but if his health comes to an end without them knowing the reason why, he will only hurt them more for they're not ready.

I will tell my sister first or my sisters as we are among four because I'm closer to them than to my parents itself. With my sisters I feel less nervous and more open so they will be listening to me without judging me. Its good to tell them because they will be definitely besides you no matter what happened.

Why not? I will tell the instant it is detected, but there is no such chance... Thanks for sharing. Welcome to mylot. Cheers. Professor

Hi. If I am an HIV positive and have situation like your friend then I would tell my family about my HIV. Because being an HIV positive is not a sin. Same as like other disease that can happen to anyone. Specially he got the virus by blood donation, for good reason. Whether his family accept it or not still he have to say. He need people around for help. His family not the only who need his help to provide anything but he's now the main person who need their help and support. Things change is nature of life. He have to be strong if they not accept it. His family will not got the virus after he say. Better he explain his situation and also tell everything related to HIV/AIDS. I wish they can have better understanding. Send my best regards to your friend and please give your best support for him. May God be with him.