Living with AIDS in New Orleans

august 4, 2003  09:59 am
Living with AIDS in New Orleans
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.