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Name: A.S.
Birth Date: Unknown
Title: Untitled
HIV Diagnosis: Unknown
"I don't want to talk."
African American - Detroit, MI
ID: ST-MIZ-AS-0096
Name: S.S.B.
Birth Date: Sept. 9, 1956
Title: Why Me?
HIV Diagnosis: Unknown
For someone that has had three sex partners,
why me?
I have had two husbands and one one-time sex partner.
I was never a street person,
why me?
I was always a housewife,
why me?
But I still will try to live as long as I can
with Jesus' help.
African American - Detroit, MI
ID: ST-MIZ-SS-0097
Name: Jennifer W.
Birth Date: June 6, 1967
Title: Hope
HIV Diagnosis: Unknown
I believe that we need to be a more compassionate and understand world. We need to educate ourselves more
about HIV/AIDS. Through education we would learn that all people with HIV/AIDS need our love and support. We
still have 40,000 people in America becoming infected with HIV each year. That is 40,000 too many!
This is now a preventable disease so we should only have a handful of new cases each year. It is a human
tragedy that we need to end. Through all the pain and suffering that HIV/AIDS brings, I still believe that we all
need to have a smile and believe that God will bring us the hope that we need.
Rural, MI
ID: ST-MIZ-JE-0098
Name: Alvina
Birth Date: 2/20/52
Title: Untitled
HIV Diagnosis: Unknown
African American -Detroit, MI
ID: ST-MIZ-AL-0095
Name: A.
Birth Date: Unknown
Title: "Motherhood HIV"
HIV Diagnosis: Unknown
African American -Detroit, MI
ID: ST-MIZ-AR-0089
Name: Linda Searcy
Birth Date: September 20, 1965
Title: Phoenix
HIV Diagnosis: Unknown -Date of Death: January 21, 2007
Hello!
My name is Phoenix. I am called Phoenix because I have been knocked down to nothing but ashes and rose
again over my trials and adversities such as sexual abuse, physical abuse, verbal abuse, and homelessness. But
just when I thought I was soaring high like a bolt of lightning, I was hit with the news that I was HIV positive. I
found that this was the hardest blow. Thinking that I would not rise this time. This attack came from the man I
loved, my husband. But through the grace of my god, Jehovah, husband, daughter, and friendship of women who
I met through the positive support group such as the one at Wellness, I have risen again. Stronger and Better than
before. You can do it too! Love, Phoenix
African American -Flint, Michigan
ID: ST-MIZ-LI-0090
Name: Shantella Brown
Birth Date: June 18, 1969
Title: Reality
HIV Diagnosis: Unknown
My name is REALITY. REALITY is that I am a survivor. REALITY is that I have 4 sons that were not born with this
disease. REALITY is that HIV and AIDS are not curable. REALITY is you need to accept responsibility for safe
sex. REALITY is that I have had HIV for 11 years with no meds. REALITY is that I am BLESSED and have FAITH.
REALITY is that I am still alive to carry the message.
REALITY is practice safe sex.
African American -Flint, MI
ID: ST-MIZ-SH-0091
Name: A.C.
Birth Date: January 1, 1963
Title: Silver Star
HIV Diagnosis: Unknown
"I don't want to talk about it!"
"Last year our support group had 25 women.
Now we only have 13 left."
African American - Detroit, MI
ID: ST-MIZ-AC-0092
Name: J.M.K.
Birth Date: October 15, 1965
Title: Sincerely
HIV Diagnosis: 1985
Hello, I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mom. And I am HIV positive. I have been for at least 14 years now.
In 1983 I met the man of my dreams, my first love. He told me he was a hemophiliac. I didn't know what that was
nor did I care. I just knew that whenever he got hurt real bad we would go to the hospital where they gave him
stuff called Factor VIII because his blood would not clot. We did not know that the stuff that was saving his life
was going to take his life and mine - in time.
We married in 1985 and had a son who is healthy. His father and I divorced but remained good friends. I met my
current husband in 1987 and we married in 1992. Then in 1997 I found out that I was pregnant. We had used
protection but it was not foolproof. I finally went to a doctor about my HIV status and my pregnancy. He checked
my blood. My viral load was 30,000 and my T cell count was 642. I was lucky because I never had taken any
medicines. I also never wanted to know my status in this disease. I was then put on AZT during my pregnancy.
Ultimately I had my son and he was a healthy baby boy. I am now on the "great" cocktail. My viral load is non-
detectable. My T cell count is up and down. I can't lead a normal life because of the side effects: headaches,
diarrhea, and numbness in my feet. It's like living with the stomach flu every day of your life.
Only my family knows I am HIV positive. I have seen how people treated my ex-husband and I can't take that. We
lost him, my oldest son's father, earlier this year. He will always be in my heart. I can never tell my son that I am
HIV positive. A 13 year old boy can only handle so much. Well, this is my story. Always remember to hug the ones
you love. You never know when your last chance will be.
Caucasian -Macomb County, MI
ID: ST-MIZ-JM-0093
Name: Edna Pratt
Birth Date: September 11, 1958
Title: Susan
HIV Diagnosis: 2002
I learned more about HIV and AIDS and being more careful by creating this doll.
African American -Flint, MI
ID: ST-MIZ-ED-0094
MICHIGAN
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