Meet the 100-Year Old Man Living with HIV: WATCH

[From HIV Plus, January 22, 2019]

“Meet Miguel [not his real name], in a soon-to-be published case study as “The Lisbon Patient,” will be celebrating his upcoming centennial in the spring.

Due to fear or reprisal and persistence of HIV stigma, Miguel and his family requested that his face not be shown, and his real name not be used.

“I feel happy,” the soft-spoken senior told CTV News, speaking through a translator at the Portuguese hospital. “I’ve spent these years without hardship and without troubles.””

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