For Many, Stigma of HIV Is Harder to Live With Than the Disease

Before Olivia reveals her deepest secret to those she feels she can trust, she first likes to play a game of “What If.”
“What if I had one leg?” she asks.  “Would you still be my friend?”

“What if I was missing all of my teeth,” she continues cautiously.

“What if I never combed my hair?”

And finally, she pauses for a moment and then asks the one question that is always on her mind.

“What if I had AIDS? Would you still be my friend?”

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