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Nina Martinez, running-to-40, has been living with HIV since she was six weeks old. After pursuing graduate studies in epidemiology at Emory University, she served as a public health analyst at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nina was an active clinical research volunteer at the National Institutes of Health for 20 years, recently completing a 10-year study of clinical outcomes in people who acquired HIV within the first decade of life. Nina is more recently known for her 7-year efforts to win HIV criminalization reform for her state of Georgia in 2022 and becoming the first person living with HIV in the United States to donate an organ (kidney) to another person with HIV in 2019. Continue reading...
