Having been diagnosed with AIDS at the age of 5, Hydeia Broadbent is a living testimony that knowing your status early on can help you to live a pretty normal life. Check out my interview and don’t forget it is National Black/Latino HIV/AIDS Awareness Day!

From Newsone.com Blogger, Tamika Mallory Recently, I was asked to promote National HIV Testing Day (June 27th) and came across the startling statistics regarding Black women. So of course, I got to thinking: Why are our numbers continuously rising when the overall numbers of those infected have remained somewhat steady, if not declining? And despite […]

From the time she was seven years old Hydeia Broadbent has been at the forefront of spreading awareness about the impact of HIV & AIDS. In 1996, her infamous statement at the Republican Convention– “I am the future and I have AIDS” — catapulted her and the reality of the disease to national acclaim. Infected […]