Category: Personal Stories
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The Mental Health Epidemic Hidden Inside HIV
“We’ve spent decades learning how to treat the virus. It’s time we learned how to heal the person.” When the Blood Test Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story For much of the world’s history with HIV, success was measured by survival. The early years of the epidemic were defined by loss, fear, and uncertainty. A positive…
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What It Costs to Be “The HIV Guy”
The hidden burden of turning your pain into your life’s work. Every time I walk onto a stage, people already know one thing about me before I even speak. “That’s the HIV guy.” Sometimes they say it with admiration. Sometimes with curiosity. Sometimes with pity. Almost always, it becomes the first thing they know about…
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BORN WITH HIV- FOUND LOVE AT 30
I Was Born With HIV. At 30, I Finally Understand What Love Really Means. I was born with HIV. That sentence has always carried weight—sometimes louder in my own mind than in the world around me. It shaped how I saw myself long before it shaped how others saw me. And as I approach 30, I’ve begun to realize…
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I Thought Mozambique Was Dangerous — I Was Completely Wrong
I expected danger in Mozambique—but found something completely different. A personal story about perception, fear, and reality. Before I landed in Mozambique, I had already made up my mind about it. Not consciously. Not deliberately. But it had already happened. Floods. Terrorism. Instability. That’s what came up when I searched. That’s what the videos showed. That’s what the headlines pushed to the top. And…
