Video Text Alternative — Life Beyond HIV: Tiommi Luckett

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Life Beyond HIV

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Close-up camera view of Tiommi Luckett.

Banner text: Tiommi Luckett. National Organizer, Transgender Law Center

Tiommi Luckett: I want to live a full life. So, one thing that I know is that I'm doing great.

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Photo of Tiommi Luckett hugging a friend. Photo fades into the next photo. The next photo shows Tiommi Luckett hugging her sister while sitting on an oversized chair.

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Tiommi Luckett: Had it not been for HIV, I wouldn't have the career that I have, right? I wouldn't be able to take vacations.

Close-up camera view of Tiommi Luckett.

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Photo of Tiommi Luckett holding a megaphone and speaking into a microphone at the 2017 Philly Trans March. The photo is credited to Kelly A. Burkhardt Photography.

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Photo of Tiommi Luckett and a group of people earning certificates at SPEAK UP!

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Tiommi Luckett: The day that I learned that I could potentially be positive, I made a promise to my higher power: If I get through this, I will promote as much education and awareness of HIV as I can to anyone who will listen, and in 2014, I got the opportunity to make good on that promise by speaking at the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS. And I haven’t stopped since that day.

Close-up camera view of Tiommi Luckett.

Tiommi Luckett: Had it not been for the Ryan White Program, I truly don't believe that I would have been here today because I didn't know where to go. No one in my city was talking about HIV as if it was real. 

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Photo of Tiommi Luckett looking out a window.

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Tiommi Luckett: So, I had nowhere to go. I went to the internet, and by chance, by cause, by talking to this person and that person, I was finally connected to the agency that held the Ryan White Program right here in Arkansas. In Little Rock, specifically. And it was there that gave me the opportunity to get in care, have access to a doctor, dentist, medical, mental health, all of that, like in one-stop shop.

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Photo of Tiommi Luckett sitting with colleagues at the 22nd International AIDS Conference. Photo fades into the next photo. The next photo shows a smiling Tiommi Luckett standing arm in arm with three other women.

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Tiommi Luckett: Eleven years later, I know that I would not be here if it wasn't for the Ryan White Program.

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Tiommi Luckett: An HIV diagnosis didn't stop me from finding love. Being trans didn't stop me from finding love, and so, yeah, I think that's what's adding to the smile today. This is the face of HIV.

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For more information on HRSA’s Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, visit ryanwhite.hrsa.gov.

Logo of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and HRSA Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.

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