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Katherine, age 56 / Adelaide, Australia

December 1, 2014 by admin

I always wanted a big family, you know – four to six children. My career was in childcare. I found out that I was positive and pregnant at the same time. My partner came with me, and we found out that he was also positive. And they basically said three things to us: “Don’t tell […]

Categories: Age 55-59, Asia-Pacific, Female • Tags: Australia

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Deloris, age 54 / New Jersey, “Jamerican” (USA & Jamaica)

December 1, 2014 by admin

I am very fortunate.  I’ve been able to educate myself to the graduate level.  I hold down a really decent job.  I make, in nonprofit, nonprofit-decent money. (Laughs) That’s a disclaimer. I think to live with HIV you have to have a lot of support.  And if they’re not coming from your family? You have […]

Categories: Age 50-54, Female, North America • Tags: Jamaica, United States

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Bev, age 63 / Gunditjmara Nation, Wangaratta, Australia

December 1, 2014 by admin

I don’t feel OLD old, ‘cause I’m still feeling young, because I’m still here, you know. I feel really grateful that I don’t ponder on, oh, you know, I’m turning into this old woman or anything. I used to be offended when, say 10 years ago, when people would stand up for me in the […]

Categories: Age 60-64, Asia-Pacific, Female • Tags: Australia

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Susan, age 62 / Melbourne, Australia

November 30, 2014 by admin

By the end of ’99, I’d really been living with HIV for over a decade – my health was going downhill rapidly. I was doing a PhD thesis. I was telling people, check the hard drive in case I die, check the hard drive. Everyone was saying, go on the medication, Susan. I saw all […]

Categories: Age 60-64, Asia-Pacific, Female • Tags: Australia

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Doris, age 58 & Randy, age 48 / Canada

November 30, 2014 by admin

Doris:       I was caught up in my addictions, and I thought the weight loss was connected to my substance use, until I started seeing other complications with my health. And that’s when I went for an HIV test. While waiting for my HIV test, I made the decision to go back home, because […]

Categories: Age 55-59, Female, North America, Trans / Non-Binary • Tags: Canada

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Claire, age 55/ San Francisco, CA, USA

November 30, 2014 by admin

I just remember being very naïve, you know, and people would tell me to do something, and I would do it. I didn’t know any better. The good news is is that they told me– this is when AZT was the only treatment. And they put me on AZT and I just took it, because […]

Categories: Age 55-59, Female, North America • Tags: United States

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Hazel, age 54 / San Francisco, CA, USA

November 30, 2014 by admin

Getting older is like, um… Things are happening with my body that I don’t like. You know, my mind is still 25– my mind wants to be 25, my body is not. You know I wanna, like, run around with my 15 year old step son, and I can’t. For me, getting older with HIV […]

Categories: Age 50-54, Female, North America • Tags: United States

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Ethel, age 60 / Paramaribo, Suriname

November 6, 2014 by admin

I’m one of the long-term survivors. I’m not use medicines because my viral load is undetectable and my CD4 cell is still high. I have a healthy lifestyle. I’m thinking positive. And also, I love myself. I’m one of the public speakers in my country, in Suriname. I was living in Holland, and I got […]

Categories: Age 60-64, Female, South America • Tags: Suriname

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Andrea, age “51 and a half” & Edward, age 55 / New York, USA

November 6, 2014 by admin

Edward:     She used to follow me around all the time. I was 15, she was 11, so I looked at her like a kid, like my little sister, and she became my best friend. Andrea:     We lived in the same neighborhood in New York. Long Island. I’ve always been in love with him, […]

Categories: Age 50-54, Age 55-59, Female, Male, North America • Tags: Couple, United States

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Charlene, age 54 / Texas, USA

November 6, 2014 by admin

I always knew that there would be a possibility. I had some friends that passed away. I was a intravenous drug user. My lifestyle prior, from ‘80 to ‘88, wasn’t the nicest thing. But I stepped out on faith and changed that on my own. By 1988 I had changed my whole life around. I […]

Categories: Age 50-54, Female, North America • Tags: United States

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Jan, age 64 / Mataura, New Zealand

November 6, 2014 by admin

It was the 15th of January, 2002. I had a needlestick injury from one of my HIV patients. I’m a nurse, a retired nurse. Once I’d finished with my patient, I got in touch with my superiors. I was taken to hospital. I had blood tests. I was put on prophylaxis straight away, within two […]

Categories: Age 60-64, Asia-Pacific, Female • Tags: New Zealand

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Ron, age 59 & Milagros, age 47 / Tennessee, USA

November 6, 2014 by admin

Ron:      I found out my status when I was incarcerated, as a result of seeing a dentist. The dental hygienist dropped one of the tools and it pricked her on the leg. And as a result of their protocol they asked everybody who had saw the dentist that day to take an HIV […]

Categories: Age 55-59, Female, Male, North America • Tags: Couple, United States

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