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As a person living with HIV, I feel it is absolutely vital to my mental wellbeing to be around likeminded people who share with me the hurts and struggles due to fear and stigma attached to having a positive diagnosis. I attend a support group for people living with HIV and we have become a family who care about each other. On Wednesday, June 24th, I went to the group, For Life, and we had a speaker come in from Miami Dade who works with a pharmaceutical company. I sat and listened to her presentation about HIV and its replication within cells.
It was a very uneasy situation for me because instead of educating and informing, she was more so preaching.
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