Have you ever heard a doctor, advocate or friend say "you probably know someone living with HIV and you just don't know it"? People hiding in plain sight. I've said that to people. It's a way to get them to consider HIV in a way they never have before. To humanize the scary HIV acronym and make them think about the nuances of what it must be like to live with it.
The 2022 CROI conference did that for me in an unexpected way this year. Humanized science when science isn't exactly popular for having human qualities. Not to mention the challenge of yet another virtual conference platform. Arguably it's the biggest science conference in the HIV realm. I went into it thinking I was going to play a scientist. Not. I found myself overawed and baffled wondering what I had gotten myself into. At first; then I took a breath and remembered it's not my job or purpose to know it all. My job is to learn what I can, then use that knowledge to help someone. Plus, I remembered I could press pause and rewind as many times as I needed to from my computer screen, and Google and Bing are my friends! LOL!
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