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

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

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