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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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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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Categories: Age 65-69, Male, North America • Tags: United States
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I’ve had cancer three times, I had stage four cancer. I’ve been through a lot. Every day is a bad day for me at some point or another. I got neuropathy from taking a particular medication. It’s from like above my knees all the way down to my feet, like someone has taken a truck […]
Categories: Age 50-54, Male, North America • Tags: United States
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Ann: I kept it a secret for a decade that I was positive. It would have cost me my job in my state – we don’t have job protection. And the only way you could fight it is take it to court, but when you take it to court it becomes public record, […]
Categories: Age 50-54, Age 55-59, Female, Male, North America • Tags: United States
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Getting old is a bitch. You go to bed feeling one way, and you wake up and it’s something else. Aging with HIV, you’re never really sure what it really is. And as a woman, I don’t know if it’s just the aging, if it’s menopausal, if it’s the HIV. And I don’t know how […]
Categories: Age 55-59, Female, North America • Tags: United States
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I thought I might want to have a baby and I was 43, and I knew I would have to get tested before I would do that. I am unmarried and I’ve never been married, so I was sexually active. I lived in Africa for some years, where we know that the epidemic has higher […]
Categories: Age 55-59, Female, North America • Tags: United States
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I learned how to ride a motorcycle, and to get my motorcycle license I had to bring my motorcycle back into New York, ‘cause the test was easier in New York than it was in Connecticut where I was living. So I needed to tell my mother that I was coming home with a motorcycle. […]
Categories: Age 60-64, Male, North America • Tags: United States
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It has totally changed my life. Before, I was a free spirit and, you know, loved to date. I still like men and dating someone, but that’s not such a focus anymore.
Categories: Age 55-59, Female, North America • Tags: United States
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My mother was scared of me. I was cooking, and I cut myself – ‘cause I was always the cook in the family. And I rinsed my hand off, and she went to put a band-aid on, and I went like this, and she jumped… You know, I love my mom, and until today she […]
Categories: Age 50-54, Female, North America • Tags: United States
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When you’re going through menopause, and you’re a seasoned woman, and you’ve been through three really serious relationships and the last one you thought would be forever, and to wake up alone, and… it’s hard. It really took me a long time to get over that depression. You know, I covered it up with super-volunteerism.
Categories: Age 55-59, Female, North America • Tags: United States
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I would like to be able to tell what is AIDS, and what is aging. That would be really wonderful, if you could tell me which one was which. Doctors can’t tell ya. I had what the doctor called “Sudden Onset AIDS-related Arthritis.” Now, is that really what it was, or was that an age […]
Categories: Age 60-64, Male, North America • Tags: United States