CDC’s HIV Treatment Works: Tommy’Story - Tips for Good Health
HIV Treatment Works: Tommy’s Story
HIV Treatment Works Tommy’s Story: Growing up in Mississippi, it was like if it’s your business, leave it as just that — your business. The whole town shouldn’t know that that’s what’s going on with you, and that’s kind of what drives me to always speak out on things. It’s not a death sentence that it used to be. ‘Cause that’s what many people who first get diagnosed, that’s the first thing they think, like, “My life is over.
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” Don’t look at it as like your life is just beginning now. Like, when I tell people that, they were like, “What do you mean by that?” When I say, “Your life is just beginning now,” now you have a chance to motivate somebody else to do better. Things are changing for the better, so you don’t have to be, you know, too afraid or timid to come and get tested and get in care and stay in care. Once they are in care, I tell them that they do have classes that teach you how to, you know, disclose your status when you’re comfortable with it. It teaches you how-to talks to your family about your situation. I tell people, “The medicine works.” Like, I was undetectable as soon as I started taking those meds. You can see the shift in your body.
Taking the meds and eating right, everything just switched over, and I just had a positive reaction ever since. Even though you feel like your voice is not heard, I can be a voice for you. Others can be a voice for you. You’re not alone. You will never be alone. Don’t think that you’re alone because you have other individuals who stand right behind you, positive and non-positive. HIV doesn’t have me. I have it. Like, it is not going to take control of my life. And that’s my mission to everybody — Like, live. Don’t ever think just because you’re HIV-positive, and your life has to stop here. My life will never stop until He sees fit. HIV treatment works. Get in care Stay in care Live well.
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