A spokesmodel for New York State's HIV Stops With Me campaign shares their work traveling across the state to talk about living with HIV and meth use. They visit events, coffee rooms, and medical offices to reduce stigma and educate people about both conditions.
All right. So you've been in New York. So tell us about the HIV Stops With Me campaign. That is the website that is a New York State Department of Health campaign that, that basically, in my words, is they have found different people from different walks of life that have been diagnosed with HIV. So I'm one of the spokesmodels. I got invited to this campaign about 3 years ago from today, which is May of 2026, right? And then I have been very happy to have a platform where I go around New York State, both upstate and here in the city, where we do table events, we do social gatherings, we go into small, even intimate spaces, coffee rooms, medical offices. Just basically what we do is that we try to dismantle and destigmatize what we have known HIV to be from the East up to 2026, right? So as, as a person who shared all of that, all I can, all I can say is that, you know, I was invited to be a spokesmodel to bring my experience, the strength that I have, and the resilience, you know, as a person with HIV and meth use.
