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Hydeia Broadbent.....An Icon in Black History · Black Girl Interrupted Podcast

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Black Interrupted. Y'all already know how y'all already know how you started. All
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right, all right, what's up? What's up? Y'all? Welcome back
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to another episode of Black Girl Interrupted. Y'all know it's your girl as Let
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me say this to y'all. Let me first apologize for jumping on so so
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so so so late. This is gonna actually be a brief episode. I'm
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not gonna be on long tonight, but I wanted to jump on tonight simply
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because, oh goodness, this is the most difficult conversation that I have to
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have tonight. But for those that do not know Hydia Broadbent, who at
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thirty nine years of age, has passed away, and I just I it
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was on my heart to jump on and celebrate this young lady's life. Yes,
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it is still Black History Month. Yes we are still celebrating Black history,
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and she is an icon. You know. I'm gonna try to keep
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it together for this episode. Like I said, this is not gonna be
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a long episode. This is gonna be maybe thirty forty five minutes, not
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that long. But I wanted to jump on because I wanted to pay homage
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again to Haydia Broadbent. Who, at thirty nine years of age, has
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now passed away. Before I even jump into tonight's conversation, y'all know,
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I have to do my mental health check in again. Today is Wednesday,
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Happy Wednesday. It is pump Day, also could be potentially known as wellness
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Wednesday. So mentally, y'all, I'm in a great space. Mentally,
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I'm good. As you could see. I'm really serious about this podcast because
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I'm on at nine forty five in the PM because I'm just that determined.
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But I appreciate the ones that continue your love and support and tune in each
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and every episode that I bring you guys every week. So before we even
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jump into tonight's conversation again, this is not going to be a real long
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episode. Again. I know I'm very late. I know I'm used to
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getting on at eight thirty, but I had a delay at work, so
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of course that comes first. So before we just even get started, let's
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go ahead. Let me just go ahead and play something motivational, inspirational,
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and then I want to go into celebrating the life of idea broad Men.
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Here we go. You know what I hear? I hear the clock ticking
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and time waits for no man. Life goes by, and it goes by
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quick. Don't waste those years, don't waste them, Live them. I
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want you to be terrified of sitting on the sidelines and doing nothing, waking
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up in six days or six weeks or six years or sixty years and being
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no closer to your goal. You've made no progress. That is the nightmare.
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That is what you really need to be afraid of being stagnant. So
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get up, then go. That idea isn't going to execute itself. That
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book isn't going to right itself. Those weights out in the gym, they
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aren't going to move themselves. You have to do it, and you have
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to do it now. Don't wait anymore. Don't think anymore, don't plan
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anymore, don't contemplate anymore. Don't make any more excuses or justifications. Don't
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rationalize anything else. No, take the risk, take the gamble, take
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the first step. Take action now. No complacency, no backing off,
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no slack whatsoever, No more dreaming. Dreaming is over. I need specifics.
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What are you doing on Monday? What are you doing on Tuesday?
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What are you doing on Wednesday? You need to be very specific. It's
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time to put your pieces together of your lozzover. You need to be in
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a big damn hurry. Time is running out on you. There's eighty six
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four hundred seconds in a day, the separator between me and you and people
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that win it loses what we do with those seconds. And you're too slow,
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you're too casual, you think too much. You need to get in
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a hurry, because there's an end of your life and it's coming sooner than
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you think. It goes by, it a flicker, and at some point
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it's going to be over. And we want to make a conscious delivered determent
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effort to stop living life with a sense of urgency and using what we've got,
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using ourselves up, sharing what we brought into the universe to share,
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because if we don't, nobody else will stop wasting valuable time. If we
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begin to live our lives as if each day we're all less, our lives
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will take on a whole new meeting. When you die, when life is
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over for you, I don't want you to have one idea left in you.
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I don't want one dream left in you when you die. I want
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you to go for brow every scene that you were supposed to do every book
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you were supposed to write. I want you to get everything about your system.
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We get one shot at this gig right here life, So do not
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wait to go forward. No more waiting for the perfect moment, and no
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more indecision, and no more lies. Take the action, Get out of
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bed, get your feet on the ground, step forward, Give every day
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everything you've got, every ounce of energy, every bead of sweat, every
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drop of blood until your last breath, and don't let another day slip by.
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All right, all right, I just want to say to anyone like
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I tell you, get up and keep going. Whatever your goals, your
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dreams, your aspirations are, get up. Don't let anyone tell you that
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you can't do it. I believe in you, believe in yourself, and
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regardless of how many people show up, just keep showing up for yourself.
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That's all that matters. But I'm still doing my mental health check ins.
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Y'all drop in the comments. Let me know how you're feeling mentally. What
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can I do to help you? What can I do to encourage you to
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continue to empower? What can I do to uplift, to get you over
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that hump, to get you to the next stage? In life. I
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love you guys, I promise, promise, promise, I do. But
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again, this is not going to be a very, very long episode.
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I just wanted to jump on because again we lost an icon. Again I
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am celebrating Black History months and this young lady was definitely an icon. For
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those that do not remember Haidia Broadbent, who at the age of was born
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well, I'm so sorry, was diagnosed at the age of three years old
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with HIV. She was actually born with HIV and then by the age of
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five, she was diagnosed with AIDS. They did not expect, They did
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not give her a long life expectancy. But by the grace of God and
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through her advocacy, this young lady lived till the age of thirty nine years
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old. On yesterday, we lost Kadia Broadbent. For those that do not
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know who Haidia Broadbent, I remember her being on the Oprah Winfrey Show and
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I believe she was like ten years old and she shared her story. So
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here we go again tonight I had to jump on and celebrate the life of
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Miss Haidia Robin. Here we go. When I was born, I was
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HIV positive and when I turned five, I had had symptoms of AIDS.
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I had had fungus in my brain, blood infections, pneumonia. I went
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cold blue a couple of times, and I that's when I was about five.
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They said I was fullblown names al Right, now I'm doing really good.
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What's the hardest part for you? Hadiyah mm living with this disease basidly,
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that's like when your friends die. Thank hike the hardest part you level
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you always was a friend of AIDS. M hard, but especially I don't
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think it's real hard. Hotter on the parents then on me. And they're
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friends and stuff and you love them a lot, and you get real.
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I'm closer and I like a lot of my friends that have tried of age.
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No one really knows how long anybody's gonna live because I don't pull myself
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like, oh you have AIDS, or I could go outside and get hit
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by a bus tomorrow, and you never know. If you stay in your
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bed and feel sorry for yourself and don't get up with the birds and just
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sit there and say I'm gonna die, why get up and try and make
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a difference. But when you say, well, today's another day. I
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can get up, I can do something, make something positive friends. People
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still recognize me as a little girl from TV with aids. Is it happens
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on top? That's the weirdest times. I could be in the airport and
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someone will say, are you the little girl and a whisper with as And
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I just laughed and I say yes. Since I was on an over show,
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I have been traveling around the world spreading the awareness about hiva to prevention,
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advocating for treatment and care, and really just spreading message to people about
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prevention. I was at the height of my career and I'm like fifteen,
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and those are my teen years, so those are the years where you're like
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supposed to myself and you're supposed to find yourself. And it was like so
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much pressure to be perfect. And there was a point where I really resented
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speaking, I resented being public. It became too much, and I dealt
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with low self esteem and I dealt with oppression and I really had to find
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my inner peace. I don't do Why do I have as? Why did
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this happen to me? I've done everything the same. I lived like a
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regular person. I do daily activities just like anyone else does. Dating with
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eggs, Well, there's a guy who I thought I was male in love
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with and he couldn't deal with my status, and I became a secret like,
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oh, we can hang out but at my house, like we go
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into the movies, but across the town. And so that really played with
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my psyche. It took me a long time to identify that the problem wasn't
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me, it was him. I was supposed to live past age of five.
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I will be thirty in June. In five years, I planned to
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have my own community center, my nonprofit organization, maybe married, no kids
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yet, so I got so much to accomplished. I don't have time for
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kids. I don't think y'all really understand how pivotal this young lady was in
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the thirty nine years that she lived on this earth. I had to do
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this tonight because someone very very very very close to me, who I love
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with every fiber of my being, suffers from this disease. I'm upset that
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this disease just even exists. I don't know what's worse, y'all just bear
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with me, but just the moment this young lady was told she wouldn't live
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past the age of five, and she lived thirty nine years, this young
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lady got out and she advocated and rallied for the Black community with regards to
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AIDS and HIV. I think this affects me more than you guys think,
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because again, someone very very very close, very dear to me as HIV.
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No, this person, it was not gay, was not a drug
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addict. This person was in a monogamous relationship and contracted. I really don't
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understand why you people do not take your health seriously. When I got the
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news that Ida had passed away, my whole heart dropped to the bottom of
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my stomach because I said, no, this young lady, when I say,
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was a trailblazer at eleven years old. I remember seeing her on the
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Open Winfrey Show. I remember her speaking, I remember her doing things with
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Magic Johnson. And to know that this beautiful light is gone, it's devastating.
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So yes, I'm gonna honor her because in my eyes, she's an
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icon because again, like she stated, doctors told her she wouldn't live past
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the age of five, and she was born with HIV. She was diagnosed
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at three years old, and at five years old she had full blown eights
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and live thirty four. She went on to live thirty four. Beautiful beautiful
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years. I want to first say I wish the stigma around AIDS and HIV
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would stop because it's not a gay disease. Anybody could get it. You
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could be in a monogamous relationship and still get it. When I tell you,
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I advocated and have these uncom about conversations because they need to be had.
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I don't think y'all really understand how the AIDS in HIV really affects the
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Black community. When I sat down with this person, because this person that's
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supposed to me that it's dealing with HIV has had it for over twenty years,
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and I remember when they told me, and when I found out,
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I was devastated because I was like, no, this person, she doesn't
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she doesn't do anything to anybody, she doesn't bother anybody. She's a good
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person. So I was angry. I even said and did a lot of
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cruel things to this person until I had to stop and I had to realize,
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this person needs me, This person needs me to stand beside them,
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because it's scary in this world. You know, to tell people that you
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have AIDS are HIV, and the looks that people give and the things that
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people do, it's heartbreaking to me because you can't get AIDS from touching somebody
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or them sneezing on you, Like, I think that's ignorant. I hear
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so many things. Oh, I don't want you sitting next to me.
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You can't get AIDS or HIV by somebody breathing on you, So I wish
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the stigmas would stop. You can't get it by washing your clothes with a
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person that has AIDS or HIV. You can't get it that way. It's
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contracted through sex, bodily fluids. If you're a drug user, you could
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get it getting a tattoo with an idea broadbent. It really hit close to
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home for me because I look at this young lady and I'm like, why
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chasos, Oh, there we go. And I know they say never question
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anything that God does, but you got all these people out here that are
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unlive in children and everything, and it's beautiful Light who advocated for the black
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community for AIDS and HIV is gone. I really wish this person that was
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close to me would share her story because I really honestly believe that y'all don't
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think fat meatia is really greasy. So I pulled up a few things that
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I just want to kind of briefly touch on. One of the questions is
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how does the AIDS HIV affect the African American population. See a lot of
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y'all don't know a lot of people quit talking about AIDS and HIV and it's
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so stigmatized, or it's a gay disease, it's this, it's that,
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without even having the proper knowledge. While we were sitting up here running and
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being afraid of COVID, the AIDS and HIV cases were steadily rising. So
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while y'all were worried about COVID, you weren't thinking about anything else. The
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sexually transmitted disease cases are definitely on the rise. AIDS and HIV cases are
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on the rise, especially in the black and Nteno community. So some of
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the stats I found, excuse me, y'all, and this is from twenty
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nineteen. It says, although Black and African Americans represent almost thirteen percent of
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the US population, they account for forty two point one percent of HIV infection
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cases. And this was in twenty nineteen, so I could just almost imagine
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what these numbers are now. And again, we only represent thirteen percent of
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the US population. An account. Now, mind you, this was five
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years ago. Okay, twenty nineteen. We accounted for forty two point one
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percent of HIV infection cases in twenty nineteen, So just five years ago,
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that's a lot. And again, y'all, we only make up thirteen percent
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and we account for forty two two point one percent of HIV infection cases.
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And this was in again twenty nineteen. Then we go to twenty twenty.
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In twenty twenty, African Americans were seven point eight times more likely to be
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diagnosed with HIV infection as compared to the white population. Let me run this
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back one more time for y'all. In twenty twenty, okay, African Americans
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were seven point eight times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV infection as compared
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to the white population. The disparities. It also says African American males have
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eight point one times the AIDS rate as compared to white males, so women
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are more prone to catch it from a man than for a man to catch
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it from a woman. I encourage y'all to check your get your status,
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know your status. Let's stop the spread of AIDS and HIV amongst other STDs
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that are on the rise, such as siplis and gonorrhea. That's the conversation
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tonight. You look at African American females have fifteen times the AIDS rate as
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compared to white females. That's because you have men out here that are sleeping
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with other men unprotected or their drug users, or they've gotten a tattoo or
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a piercing or something, don't know their status, and you're unknowingly passing it
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around because you're having unprotected sex knowing that you have this disease. One of
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the things I do want people to know is AIDS and HIV it's not a
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death sentence. It's a life sentence, but it's not a death sentence.
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And I can attest to that because the person that's very very very close to
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me has been undetectable for the last seven maybe eight years now. That doesn't
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mean the disease is gone. That just means she's undetectable. So yeah,
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it's imperative that we continue to have these conversations. Also, another stat a
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couple of other stats that I came across, African American men are six point
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zero times as likely to die from HIV infection as a non Hispanic white man.
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I'm so sorry. Let me repeat that African American men are six times
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as likely to die from HIV infection as non Hispanic white men, Black men
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six point zero times. And again, mind y'all, we only make up
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thirteen percent of the population and account for forty two point one percent of the
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HIV cases. And then African American women are fifteen point three times likely as
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likely to die from HIV infection as white women. As if we as black
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women don't suffer enough, we have high maternal death rates, and now here
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we are fifteen point three times as likely to die from HIV infection as white
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women. That doesn't even scare y'all a little bit? Is this not enough
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to say, you know what, I need to go check my status because
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the virus can lie dormant for years before it decides to rear its ugly head.
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And I think the sad part of all of this is y'all. Don't
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y'all don't seem to care that you feel like, oh, that's not gonna
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happen to me. You don't know that if you are knowingly, Because I
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know a person that knowingly has this disease and it's still sleeping around with men
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still knowingly has this disease. If these stats are not enough to make you
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go get tested, I don't know what will. Yeah, you might be
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in a monogamous relationship, but is your partner in a monogamous relationship? I
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bet some of y'all are scratching your heads and looking side the side. Yeah,
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I'm talking to you. You may be in a monogamous relationship, but
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is your partner? That's an uncomfortable questioning it. A lot of y'all run
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from neck. A lot of y'all run from NECKKBA. I hope you're having
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a good night at work. But that's why it's important and it's imperative to
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know your status. I got a video that really delves into this and why
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are we disproportionately phone to AIDS and HIV. Here we go Today's National Black
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HIV and AIDS Awareness Day, which started as a grassroots roots movement to raise
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awareness of prevention, care and treatment options and communities of color. While anyone
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can get HIV, black Americans are disproportionately affected. The CDC reports that while
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black people account for thirteen percent of the US population, they made up forty
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percent of people with HIV in twenty nineteen. On average, one in sixteen
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black men and one in thirty black women will be diagnosed with HIV at some
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point in their lifetime. So let's bring in founder of the Black Aids Institute,
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Phil Wilson for more on this. Phil, thanks for being here.
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You know, CDC data shows that over the past decade, new infections have
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dropped among white, gay, and bisexual men, but remained flat among those
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who are black, Hispanic, or Latino. Why are we seeing these higher
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rates to begin with, and then why aren't we seeing these numbers come down
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in these communities. Well, thank you for having me, Diane. And
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you know, the CDC recently released the report showing that Black people are disproportionately
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impacted by HIV on every level. We get infected at higher rates, as
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you just reported, We get sticker, we get sticker faster, we die
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faster. Interesting, now, that's the report that has been released every year
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for the last forty years, so Black people have been disproportionately impacted by HIV
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since the beginning of the epidemic. It's kind of like Groundhall Day every February
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where we release this information. There are a number of fundamental issues that continue
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to exist now, high rates of poverty, housing instability, that issue around
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discrimination, and a distrust of both the healthcare system and systems in general in
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the United States, as Black people feel mistreated and facing all sorts of challenges
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now throughout the pandemic, we've heard a lot about the disproportioned impact of COVID
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nineteen on communities of color. Is there a common thread here? Yes,
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I think that certainly is a common thread. You know, one would have
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hoped that we would have learned lessons from HIV and a's and clearly we have,
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but we have not learned them well enough. For many of us in
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black communities, we feel like it's deja vu. We feel like the same
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processes that we experience in the HIV pandemic we're experiencing in COVID nineteen, and
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now we're facing the dual epidemic. You know, what we see is that
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black people who are living with HIV are people in general living with HIV,
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disproportionately those people are black also face higher incidences of COVID nineteen. The severity
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of the disease with COVID nineteen is greater for people who are living with HIV
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as well, and so is there sort of one key area that needs to
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be focused on, you know, access to medication and healthcare for example.
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What do you think is sort of a one key place that communities and that
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leaders can focus on to try to at least get this going in the right
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direction. Well, I think that we've been plagued with kind of fits and
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starts, and so we want to have success in addressing a dispportion of impact
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the HIV and as and now COVID nineteen is having on Black communities. We
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have to have an all out effort that is sustained and consistent over time,
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and that's not happened. No. We launch initiatives and then those initiatives drop
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off, and then we launch new initiatives, and then those initiatives drop off.
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And so if we want to be serious about fighting both HIV and COVID
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nineteen in black communities, number one one, we have to have an all
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out effort. We have to be consistent about that effort. We have to
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engage the entirety of black communities, inclusive of the LGBTQ communities, but inclusive
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of traditional institutions as well. We need to reinvigorate our energy to remind people,
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although we have had success with HIV and AIDS, the pandemic is not
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over. Now is not the time to lift our foot off the gas.
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Quite frankly, now is the time to prush our foot onto the gas in
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a wholehearted, holistic manner. And so what should people do to stay safe?
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Well, number one, there are advances we've made in treatment and prevent
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them. Today. If you're diagnosed with HIV, science will allow you to
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live quite frankly, a normal lifespan. Now today, of you're diagnosed with
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HIV, there are treatments that actually can stop the progress of the disease in
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your body. On the prevention side, we have tools like you equals you
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NO, which means that if you're undetectable, you cannot transmit the virus.
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So both the treatment is a prevention tool so that we don't transmit the virus
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to others. We also have prop no pre exposure propylexis, which allows people
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to protect themselves from acquisition of the disease. Now, we also need to
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face the issues around community activity and access to disease because although these treatments are
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available, the uptake is not the same in black and brown and other people
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of color communities and im poor communities as they are in wealthy communities in white
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communities. All right, Phil Wilson, great to have you, Phil,
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Thank you, Thank you. Hi everyone, Georg stephanoppls here. Thanks for
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much again for tuning in tonight again, Welcome to Black Girl Interrupt the podcast.
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It is your host, Ashley, and tonight I am remembering how the
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abroad Bent. For those that do not know who, Hi. Thea Broadbent
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is Idea at the age of well, at the age of three years old,
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was diagnosed with HIV and then by the age of five was diagnosed with
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full blown AIDS. On Yesterday, February twentieth, Idea Broadbent passed away at
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thirty nine years of age. Again, Hydea Broadbent has been the face the
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activists for the AIDS and HIV community. She has really rallied in and pushed,
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I'm so sorry, y'all forgive me to continue to bring awareness to AIDS
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and HIV. And again, I was just pulling statistics and letting people know
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having AIDS or HIV is not a death sentence, you know, as he
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stated, the care and treatment with regards to HIV has really advanced since the
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nineteen eighties when people really didn't know what it was. There was no medical
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you know, there was really no medication out during that time. Excuse me
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to help to prevent the spread of the AIDS HIV disease. And again,
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as I was saying, one particular person that I just adore who has been
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living with HIV for over twenty years or close to twenty years. And I
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see this person and I look at the effects and the toll it is taken
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on their body, you know, due to the medications that are needed to
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be taken to keep the disease from advancing. So I talked to this person
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and I'm so proud of of them. You know, let me say that,
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I'm so proud of them because when they were first diagnosed, they didn't
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want to do the treatment. And then, you know, as as the
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years went on, and I really educated myself on the disease and how it's
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how you're able to contract it. I learned to embrace this person even more
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like when I, like I say, when I see them, I'm just
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like, you know, I'm so amazed at how well this person has overcome
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and has dealt with I'm having HIV. I just you know, I had
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to jump on tonight, you know, like I said Haidia Broadbent. We
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grew to love her when we saw her on the Oprah Winfrey Show back in
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nineteen ninety six, and the way she advocated and she was determined to keep
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awareness with regards to AIDS and HIV. So to lose her, it's devastating.
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It hits home. It's hard. But she surpassed her life expectancy because
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at the age of five again, she was diagnosed with full blown AIDS and
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she was told she wouldn't live past the age of five, and she went
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on to live thirty four more beautiful years and was still fighting to bring awareness
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to AIDS and HIV. And again, for those that do not know who
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she is, I want to just kind of play this, run this back
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real quick, and then I want to go ahead and bring this show to
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a close again. I said this was not going to be a very long
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episode, but I owed it to you guys to get on here tonight.
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So here we go. I I have AIDS activist Idea Broadbent has died.
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Her father. Lauren announced the sad news on social media, saying, in
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part, despite facing numerous challenges throughout her life, Hidia remained determined to spread
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hope and positivity through education around HIV AIDS. Being a part of the first
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generation of children who were born with AIDS research really saved my life. Broadbent
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was left at birth at a Nevada hospital before she was adopted. Lauren and
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Patricia Broadbent, doctors at the time, said she had a life expectancy of
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only five years. She made the world cry when, as a six year
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old, she explained her desires to basketball star Magic Johnson. Our No,
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Yah, you don't have to cry because we are normal people, Okay.
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The two continued to advocate for HIV and AIDS education together. HIV human immuno
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deficiency virus attacks the body's immune system. According to the Centers for Disease Control
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and Prevention, the virus can progress into AIDS if left untreated, wise beyond
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her years and eleven year old, Idea told Oprah Winfrey in nineteen ninety six
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why she remained optimistic. No one really knows how long anybody's gonna live because
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I don't pull myself like, oh you have AIDS or I could go outside
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and get hit by a bus tomorrow, and you never know if you stay
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in your bed and feel sorry for yourself and don't get up with the birds
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and just sit there and say I'm good dad, Why get up and try
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and make a difference. But when you say, well, today's another day,
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I can get up. I can do some mix some them pull.
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Through speaking engagements and her own foundation, Broadban spent her youth and teen years
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advocating for HIV and AIDS education and research and hopefully to see a generation of
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no more children being boor with ads. That's my personal life s goals.
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Broad Ben spent her life fighting stigma while spreading knowledge and love. Idea Broadbent
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was thirty nine years old, a young lady. It's such a difference in
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the thirty nine years. God allowed her to be here. Thanks m h.
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I just I need thirty seconds, just mhm H. How dear we
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love you. We appreciate everything that you have done. We appreciate the time
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that you were here on earth. We appreciate that. Thank you from making
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a difference. M to the person. I will never ever tell y'all who
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this person is, but they know who they are. I love you,
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I'm proud of you. I know it's difficult to live with this disease and
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the stigmas that are attached to it. I know it's difficult, but I
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want this person to know. You'll never fight this battle alone. You mean
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everything to me. I love you with every fiber of my being. We're
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in this fight together. I can't wait until you're brave enough to share your
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story and let the world know that having HIV is not a death sentence because,
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like Idia said, she lived every day to the fullest, because she
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could have walked out and got hit by a bus. Anything. And with
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the advanced and the advanced and medication with regards to AIDS and HIV can help
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the spread and transmission of the disease. As I bring this episode to a
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close, know your status. Just because you're in a monogamous relationship doesn't mean
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your partner is go get tested. Let's keep working together. Let's keep fighting
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together to stomp out this deadly disease. Idea. You will definitely be missed.
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And I'm pretty and I just I know for a fact that there are
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millions or hundreds and hundreds of people that will come you to fight and make
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your proud. Although you may be gone, embody, your spirit and your
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legacy will continue to live on. So to hyda broad bit, well done,
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well done, well done, Your purpose and your destiny was fulfilled.
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Everything that God left you on this earth to do you did. And we'll
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keep fighting. We'll keep pressing on, We'll keep bringing awareness to this ugly,
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horrible disease. How dare We love you and you will truly know you
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will truly truly be missed. Thank you to every person that tuned in tonight.
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I encourage each and every person to go check get your know your status
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again. Having AIDS or HIV is not a death sentence again with the way
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medication has advanced, that is actually helping to curtail the spread and transmission of
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AIDS HIV. Know your status, Go get checked. There's so many clinics
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out here, doctors' offices, they even do they have the mobile like how
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they do the breast cancer. They have the mobile trucks where you go in
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and you can get the rapid results. You can get your results in I
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think like thirty minutes, forty five minutes. But we have to stick together,
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y'all. We have to keep up the fight and continue to bring awareness
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when it comes to AIDS and HIV. I understand it's a very uncomfortable conversation
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I have. I get it, but you have to have those conversations with
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your partner because I want people to know this is not just the gay disease.
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Some people, some children like I did, they were born with it.
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You know, drug users, IVY, drug users, people that are
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getting tattoos can contract AIDS and HIV. You can get it from a blood
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transfusion. You may have had a major surgery and you had to have blood
47:53
and maybe they didn't property properly test the blood like Ryan White, know your
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status, educate yourself on the AIDS HIV virus. And no, you can't
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get it from being next to somebody that has a cold. You can't get
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it from someone sneezing on you. That's a stigma that we need to erase.
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But again, tonight's episode was to remember how Dea broaden in her life
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and her legacy and what we as a people need to do to continue the
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fight when it comes to the AIDS and HIV virus. So on that note,
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I'm gonna bring this episode to a close. I love you guys.
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Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of Black Girl Interrupted.
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Again, I apologize for the delay. Y'all know I never start to show
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this late, but again, my my nine to five had to come first.
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But I will be back tomorrow night. Again. I'm still celebrating Black
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History months, but I just had I had to jump on and pay tribute
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to Miss Idea Bribean. But I love you guys. Don't forget to like,
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