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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.