Fergie Ferguson

November 2nd, 2007

A little over a year ago I was diagnosed with HIV. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV, is the virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The virus weakens a person’s immune system and their ability to fight infections. Unlike when HIV and AIDS first came on the scene in the 1980s, today, because of innovations in prescription medicines, many people living with HIV are able to take medicines to stave off full-blown AIDS and to help them cope with HIV and its affects so that they can live longer lives. However, when I was diagnosed, I felt like I had hit rock bottom. I was working, but wasn’t making much money and I didn’t have any insurance to help me get the prescription medicines I needed to fight this deadly illness. I decided that I needed to make a plan to get healthy again and turn my life around. (more…)

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