Treatment for HIV has come a long way, but advocates say there’s still work to be done. Stigma surrounding HIV is persistent, and the virus disproportionately affects gay and bisexual men of color due to inequality in a variety of areas. - NBCOUT
In 2014, Deondre Moore, who was 19 at the time, decided to get an HIV test while he and his friends were at a nightclub in Houston.
Moore said he “made up a whole scenario” in his head about why he thought the test result was wrong. But just over a week later, a doctor at the student health clinic at Sam Houston State University, where he was a freshman, confirmed the result. Treatment for HIV has come a long way since June 1981, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publisheddescribing the disease now known as AIDS in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. But advocates say there’s still more work to be done. Stigma surrounding HIV is persistent, and the virus disproportionately affects gay and bisexual men of color, particularly Black men, due to inequality in a variety of areas.
“And I always thought, ‘Oh, if he touches me ... If somebody touches you, you're going to get it.’ I've heard that,” Wingate said. But the doctor told her that if Moore took one pill every day for the rest of his life, he could live to 90 or 100 years old.
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