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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

When Sturdevant first tested positive for HIV in 2005, he didn’t seek treatment. They considered it a death sentence, a punishment for irresponsible behavior, or a disease that could infect them through a touch or a shared toilet seat — which it cannot. “I thought my family was going to disown me,” he said. .’”