HIV-awareness
By Shavon S. Greene

Grissel Ganados, a senior sociology major at the University of California-Santa Barbra was diagnosed with HIV at the age of five. She was infected as an infant through breast milk, while her mother caught HIV through a blood transfusion in 1986. “Since I grew up knowing, it was always something normal to me, but I was aware of the stigma around HIV and AIDS,” Ganados says. “I feel like people believe it can’t happen...

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