News, commentary, and voices in the efforts to eliminate HIV and AIDS in children worldwide.
Posted by
Suzan Meredith
Crestwood, Kentucky
March 10, 2011
Suzan (left) and Alee Meredith.
(Photo courtesy of the Meredith family)
Today is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. HIV/AIDS affects nearly 280,000 women in the U.S., and women and girls represent a quarter of all new infections. A woman or girl tests positive for HIV every 35 minutes in the U.S. Knowing one’s HIV status is essential to stopping the spread of the virus.
To commemorate this important day, we have a guest blog written by Foundation Ambassador Suzan Meredith. Suzan unknowingly contracted HIV from a man she was engaged to at ninteen who, she was later told, had died from cancer. It wasn't until years later after starting a family that she learned she was HIV-positive. Her husband had tested negative, but their six-year-old daughter Alee, like Suzan, tested positive.
Click past the jump to read Suzan's heart-wrenching story of the day she learned of her and daughter's status, and hear, in her words, why knowing your HIV status is so important.
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Posted by
Suzan Meredith
Louisville, Kentucky
September 9, 2010
Hi, my name is Suzan. I am a mom who is passionate about life and family. Twenty-three years ago I married Clay, the man of my dreams, and together we are raising three amazing children, two biological and a son we adopted from Ethiopia. Life is good. Really good. But it wasn’t always that way for our family. Read more of my story after the jump.
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