1981, I spoke to two people who live with HIV. Dr. Robert Garofalo is the Chief of Adolescent Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, IL, as well as a professor of pediatrics at Ann and Robert H.
Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Rob received his HIV diagnosis in 2010.The other person is my friend Christopher, who worked as a dancer, then as a childcare practitioner both in the United Kingdom and in Chicago before retraining as a dispensing optician.
Christopher moved back to the U.K. in 1994. He found out that he had AIDS not long after.In our conversation, both Rob and Christopher shared how they found out that they were HIV-positive.