12 Year Old with HIV Opens World AIDS Conference

Keren Dunaway was 5 years old when her parents first explained to her that she and her parents had HIV. At 9 kids in her class refused to play with her because of her HIV. So she decided to speak out about the disease and that's when everything changed. She accompanied her parents at schools throughout Latin America and around the world to share their HIV story and to encourage others to do the same. In Latin America where she calls home about 55,000 of the 2 million HIV positive people are kids under the age of 15. Read more about her work with HIV positive youth in this article from Yahoo Health and the Associated Press

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