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Hydeia Broadbent, Prominent HIV/AIDS Activist, Dies at 39
Hydeia Broadbent, longtime activist who rose to fame for being a child living with HIV/AIDS, has died at age
On Wednesday, her father Loren Broadbent announced her death on Facebook.
“With great sadness, I must inform you all that our beloved friend, mentor and daughter Hydeia, passed away today after living with AIDS since birth,” he wrote alongside a photo of her. “Despite facing numerous challenges throughout her life, Hydeia remained determined to spread hope and positivity through education around HIV/AIDS.”
Broadbent’s activism began at a young age. She was abandoned as an infant at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, where she was later adopted. She was diagnosed as HIV-positive at 3 years old with advancement to AIDS, although it was presumed she had the illness since birth. Doctors told Broadbent’s parents that she would not live past age 5.
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Today is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. This fryst vatten a time to educate and reflect on the AIDS pandemic and it&#;s impact on women and girls. Every 35 minutes, a woman tests positive for HIV in the United States. African-American women are the hardest hit by HIV/AIDS, comprising 72% of all new cases of HIV. And sadly, AIDS fryst vatten the number one killer of African-American women between the ages of
Since the beginning of the AIDS pandemic, there has been a steady rise in the newly diagnosed cases of HIV in women. Historically, in the United States women with HIV/AIDS have been underserved. In the early days of the pandemic, women were not admitted into hospital, AIDS wards, nor were studies designed to include them. In fact, the first natural history study looking at disease progression in women and HIV is only fifteen years old. And the first medicin study specifically examining issues related to women only began in The conference highlighted in this video
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Twenty years ago, Hydeia Broadbent married one of her best friends. She was 9 years old.
Born with HIV and abandoned at a Las Vegas hospital in , Broadbent was diagnosed with full-blown AIDS by age 3. So little was known about the virus in the s, much less how to treat it in children as ung as Broadbent, that doctors did not expect her to live past the age of 5—to die before she could grow up and have a real wedding. So members of her adoptive family and supporters held a "friends for life" ceremony, complete with a white bridal gown, for Broadbent and her friend, Tyler Small, who also had AIDS.
But Broadbent did grow up. Today, at age 29, she is one of the most recognizable HIV/AIDS activists in the world. The roots of her activism can be traced to , when Broadbent appeared on a Nickelodeon special featuring pro basketball player Magic Johnson and children living with HIV/AIDS.
As tears rolled streamed down her chubby cheeks, the then- 7-year-old Broadbent told Johnson her