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...test that would have been routine for someone else with those symptoms. "He said that people like me--a white, middle-class, non-drug-using, college-educated woman in Iowa-- didn't get HIV/AIDS." Alas, in Lawless's case, he was mistaken. Testing showed that she was positive for HIV. "I know this sounds strange, but I was relieved to know what was wrong because I was beginning to feel like I was crazy...
...during college who had contracted the virus through a blood transfusion. Despite her uncertain future, she and her boyfriend of five years, Jim Hughes, who remained uninfected, decided to marry. But starting a family was not part of the plan for the couple, who practiced safe sex. "I thought HIV was a death sentence, and we weren't even sure I'd make it to the wedding the next year, let alone have children...
...everything we'd heard up to that point was that we couldn't have children because they would be infected." Using home artificial insemination, the Hugheses easily conceived and had a baby boy in 1999. They had a second son last year. Both Jamison, 6, and Donovan, 1, are HIV negative...
According to his website, Perry, a graduate of the historically black college Johnson C. Smith University, was the first openly gay, black, HIV-positive student at his school. He was also the founder of Johnson C. Smith University’s first official gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender organization...
...combat problems in the region, such as poverty and disease. Last December, the Club held a book drive and sent over five boxes of books to rural villages in Jamaica, and they hope to send five members to Trinidad this summer to teach in a home for children with HIV...