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Africa-Press<\/a> – Malawi<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Activist Vincent Wandale has revealed to being HIV positive. The land rights activist also claimed in a post on his unverified account to battling mental health, claiming he is diagnosed with psychosis \u2013 a mental health condition in which people hallucinate and lose touch with reality. According to Wandale, his mental health issues started because of HIV.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this week of self-determination drama, I did not I did not take my Anti-Retroviral Drugs (arvs) to reduce my Human Immunodeficiency Virus HIV resulting from acquired immune deficiency virus AIDS load. I have psychosis. A mental condition where a person see things unreal as real. I am a mad person. My psychosis results from my being an AIDS patient whose viral load has gone so high causing psychosis,\u201d said Wandale.<\/p>\n

A report on WebMD reads: \u201cPsychosis is a condition that affects the way your brain processes information. It causes you to lose touch with reality. You might see, hear, or believe things that aren\u2019t real. Psychosis is a symptom, not an illness. A mental or physical illness, substance abuse, or extreme stress or trauma can cause it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wandale is a prominent land rights activist who for years has been calling for estates in Mulanje and Thyolo to allocate idle land to landless communities.<\/p>\n

In 2017, he declared secession of the two districts from Malawi to form one country which e named United States of Mulanje and Thyolo (MUST). He was later arrested but after it was determined that he was mentally ill and the court sent him to a mental hospital in Zomba. In the Facebook post today, he said MUST is now renamed Ntombizodwa Lopanda Kingdom and his mother \u201cis the new head of state of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. Activist Vincent Wandale has revealed to being HIV positive. The land rights activist also claimed in a post on his unverified account to battling mental health, claiming he is diagnosed with psychosis \u2013 a mental health condition in which people hallucinate and lose touch with reality. 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