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Marvelyn Brown was a Nashville, Tenn. teenager who met her "Prince Charming" while still in high school. She considered herself athletic, attractive and her future seemed bright.
Living with HIV was not in those future plans.
Brown, now 24, wants to share her personal journey in her new autobiography The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive with Courtney E. Martin, due out in bookstores on Aug. 19....
Prince George's County is not immune to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Based on a 2007 report from the state's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the region is second in the state in HIV and AIDS cases. Blacks represented 88 percent of HIV/AIDS cases in the county, compared to whites at 10 percent and Latinos at 4 percent.
Author's AIDS battle mirrors Prince George's
Seeded on Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:00 PM EDT
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