Living with HIV #Bicho and Me: In the medical world, containment is everything

The first time I saw an infectious disease specialist, she tried to bribe me. She told me my tests were fine, but that I should get them done at a lab she trusted, and that if I mentioned her name, I'd get a discount. I had all the paperwork, but I didn't know anything—not what a CD4 count was, what a viral load was, nothing.