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Stories of African-American women aging with HIV: 'My life wasn’t what I hoped it to be'

  • Written by Thurka Sangaramoorthy, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Maryland
Marcella Wright is one of about 140,000 African American women aging with HIV. Their needs are often unmet, and have been over the lifespan.Aamir Khuller, CC BY-NC-SA

Sophia Harrison, 51, is a single mother of two, with an extended family to support. She has lived with epilepsy her entire life; she suffers from hypertension; and she is a breast...

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