HIV PLUS MAGAZINE

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I am a woman living with HIV, a single mother of two HIV-negative sons, an immigrant, a public speaker, and an advocate. Medicaid expansion, made possible by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), has given me the cushion I needed to overcome some of the worst trauma of my life to be the fierce survivor I am today. I hope that my story will help people understand why the threat to health care access now before the Supreme Court, in the form of Texas v. United States, is a threat to all of us.

I had been in the U.S. for only a year when I was diagnosed with HIV in 2003 at age nineteen. Until the day I got the news, things were finally looking up for me.

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