Get Back Into Focus

Some of us don’t want anyone else to know that we are HIV positive. Just saying, people don’t know the struggle that we (HIV+) face every day. What I’m going through, what we go through.

I was hurting myself out there doing drugs and not taking care of myself more than the damn disease was hurting me, you know?

I wasn’t being focused. I was hanging out with the wrong people and going back to doing my old stuff.

I said to myself, it’s time for you to get back into focus.

I’m just now starting to go to the [HIV] group sessions… I feel good…talking with them [PLWH]. I learn what it is like living with HIV for 30 years. They make me feel good and want to plan for the future because they have plans for the future.

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