Personal Stories From People Newly Diagnosed With HIV

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	Rae Lewis-Thornton Shares Tips for Beginning to Live With HIV Renowned speaker, blogger and advocate Rae Lewis-Thornton has been living with HIV/AIDS for more than 25 years -- and she's learned a lot about survival along the way. In this video, Rae shares wisdom from a long life with HIV/AIDS, especially for those who've just found out they're HIV positive.
	Starting Your Journey With HIV By Nelson Vergel Finding out that one is HIV positive is an overwhelming and scary experience. Unless you know empowered HIV-positive people who can help you navigate the next steps to gain control of HIV can be a daunting experience. Longtime HIV survivor and wellness expert Nelson Vergel outlines the most important things for you to know in an easy-to-understand video (available in English and Spanish).
	My HIV Journey: 13 Months of Videos Following My Diagnosis By Aaron Laxton "I am simply a guy who on June 6, 2011, received the news that more than 33 million people have received: I am HIV positive. I decided in that moment to record the journey that I was embarking on so that I might help others as they receive that news. I'm not a doctor and I don't endorse any agenda other than simply living a healthy life."

• Day One With HIV: 19 Years Ago Today, "I Was Given What I Thought Was a Death Sentence" (April 4, 2013)
  From TheBody.com
  
• This Positive Life: Newly Living With HIV, Josh Robbins Is "Still Josh" -- and Still an Advocate (March 25, 2013)
  In This Positive Life, from TheBody.com
  
• The Dude Who Exposed Me to HIV Speaks, Part Two (January 17, 2013)
  From ImStillJosh.com
  
• The Dude Who Exposed Me to HIV Speaks, Part One (January 15, 2013)
  From ImStillJosh.com
  
• The Beginning of a New Me: A Blog Entry by Ria Denise (August 16, 2012)
  "I am finally at the stage where I need to be to let my voice be heard in hopes to inspire those who fight the ignorance daily, to know that they have nothing to be ashamed of."
  From TheBody.com
  
• A Journey of a Thousand Miles ... A Blog Entry by Betsy Yung (May 18, 2012)
  "You can imagine what a shock it was to hear, at age 49 that I was not only HIV positive, but fighting for my life with full blown AIDS."
  From TheBody.com
  
• Now for More on My Learning: A Blog Entry by Alive2 (May 10, 2012)
  "I knew I had to take this stuff very seriously. The whole thing put my wife and me on an unstable path, which I was mainly the person who was responsible for the whole issue. We had a very difficult time for a few months, especially while she waited for her results to come back for a confirmation she wasn't infected."
  From TheBody.com
  
• HIV Changes Everything: A Blog Entry by Bob Leahy (April 25, 2012)
  "I'm part of the HIV gang -- we must be dreadfully annoying at times -- who continually point out how HIV has changed us for the better. This must confound prevention experts who would rather we bemoan how awful are our HIV-riddled lives. And let's be clear; it's no picnic for many. For some of us though, the lucky ones, HIV has been a good thing. It's shaken us up. It's made us smell the daisies. … It's made us make something of our lives."
  From TheBody.com
  
• The Day I Was Diagnosed With HIV: A Blog Entry by B. Osten (March 8, 2012)
  "The year was 1987. I remember it was raining that day. I woke up to what I thought was vertigo. It turned out to be a form of toxemia. A condition in which poisonous toxins are spread throughout the body by the bloodstream."
  From TheBody.com
  
• Everything That Glitters Ain't Gold: A Video Blog Entry by Jermaine Wright (July 26, 2011)
  "November 2, 2009, a friend of mine came to me and told me about himself being HIV poz, and that he wanted to tell me something. The person that gave him HIV was my ex's ex-boyfriend. So I went and got tested that same day and I too became a statistic."
  From TheBody.com
  

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