Living with AIDS in New Orleans
By AAN Staff
august 4, 2003 09:59 am
In 2002, one-third of New Orleanians newly
diagnosed with HIV were female, most of them
African-American women. That number has been
rising rapidly. Almost no one is talking about it.
Gambit Weekly's Katy Reckdahl talks to
two women who are willing to be open about their
diagnosis. One has a red AIDS ribbon
tattooed on her back. The other has
outlived all the pallbearers she selected
when
she first got the news she was infected and
thought she would die within months.