Giavanna (14) has HIV but dares not tell anyone because of the stigma

by time news

They know little about Giavanna’s biological parents. Only that her mother had HIV. Hardly anyone knows that Giavanna also has HIV. “If I tell my friends, I don’t know if they’ll pass it on without me knowing. Maybe I’ll be bullied or called names.” She has a girlfriend she knows from the HIV clinic, but there are more fun things to talk about with her than their illness. If someone happens to see her taking a pill at 6:00 PM, she just says ‘medication’, without explaining exactly what for.

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