'I thought only people in Africa got HIV,' says mother-of-three who contracted the condition after summer romance Rachel Dilley, 48, says she had no idea she was at risk of the condition This is because she had never known a white person to have HIV When embarking on new relationship she didn't use protection Says she was 'too old' to be at risk of pregnancy and hadn't considered HIV A few months later suffered symptoms similar to a 'severe bout of flu' Was eventually advised to have an HIV test - which came back positive
A mother-of-three who had unprotected sex says she never dreamed she was at risk of HIV - because 'only African people could get it'.
Rachel Dilley, 48, developed the condition nearly a decade ago.
Appearing on ITV's This Morning to discuss her diagnosis, she said she hadn't realised at the time that 'white people had ever had it'.
She told amazed hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby that the risks had genuinely never crossed her mind.
Naive: Rachel Dilley says she had no idea of the risks of getting HIV - because she thought 'only people in Africa got it' It was in 2004, just short of her 40th birthday, when she embarked on online dating, having split from her partner of 20 years and the father of her children the year before.
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