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Stories of African-American women aging with HIV: 'My life wasn’t what I hoped it to be'

  • Written by Thurka Sangaramoorthy, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Maryland
Stories of African-American women aging with HIV: 'My life wasn’t what I hoped it to be'Marcella Wright is one of about 140,000 African American women aging with HIV. Their needs are often unmet, and have been over the lifespan.Aamir Khuller, CC BY-NC-SA

Sophia Harrison, 51, is a single mother of two, with an extended family to support. She has lived with epilepsy her entire life; she suffers from hypertension; and she is a breast...

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