Living Well with HIV: Marnina

"I want you to know that HIV is something that you can live with and you don't have to feel ashamed or afraid. "

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TRANSCRIPT:
It's actually a little emotional being here.

I did not immediately want to come out my HIV diagnosis, just cause all the stigma and shame that was wrapped around it. So I kind of kept it to myself for a long time.

HIV is contracted sexually and we still live in an era where people think that a sexually transmitted disease is something like the worst taboo ever.

I want people to know that is a chronic manageable illness.

I have friends, I have a partner, I have a son, I go to school, I work, and I take a pill to manage my HIV.

Me reaching an undetectable viral load kind of took the weight of living with HIV kind of off of me.

Now I sit my medications right on the edge of my vanity, right next to my toothbrush to make sure that I take it in the morning.

I want you to know that HIV is something that you can live with and you don't have to feel ashamed or afraid.

"I want you to know that HIV is something that you can live with and you don't have to feel ashamed or afraid. " Greater Than HIV is a leading public information response to the U.S. domestic HIV / AIDS epidemic. For more information, go to https://greaterthan.org. Follow Greater Than HIV at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreaterThanHIV YouTube:…