N.J. women participate in trial looking at new ways to prevent HIV

August 21, 2014 - The Star-Ledger.

By Heather Boerner

Forty-six-year-old Oshay was making breakfast in her Newark kitchen in May 2013 when her boyfriend came downstairs and dropped a bomb.

"I have HIV," he told her.

Her first reaction was, "It can't be." After all, the couple had been together for a decade.

They'd had sex without condoms lots of times. After the shock wore off, she said she headed to the closest hospital for a rapid HIV test.

The result? Negative.

Oshay, who asked that her full name not be used, said she didn't understand how it was possible, and said she wasn't even sure she believed her boyfriend had HIV — he does — but she wanted to stay negative. So when she saw a flier for a clinical trial asking HIV-negative women to take HIV drugs to prevent transmission, she jumped at it. Continue reading…

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