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In Honor of Hydeia Broadbent Since 6 years old, she has used her platform to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS that has impacted our community. Her life's mission was to change the world's outlook. What she didn't know was that her outlook on life lifted us into a realm of consciousness that we didn't know we needed, and she ended up changing us. May the Angels that currently surround you whisper, "Job Well Done." Rest in the knowing. Rest in the peace you deserve. Rest in the power that you gave u

Last week, Hydeia Broadbent, who many of you will remember as a young guest on The Oprah Show, passed away. Born HIV-positive and abandoned by her drug-addicted mother, doctors told her adoptive parents she wouldn’t make it past the age of 5. But she proved them wrong. Hydria traveled the world spreading awareness about HIV prevention and lobbying for better treatment and care—living until the age of 39. Now @oprah is speaking out on her passing, saying, “She loved and she was loved, which is th

Global activist who spent her life advocating for HIV/AIDS awareness, Hydeia Broadbent, passed away last year at age 39. Born with HIV in 1984, Broadbent began raising awareness about the virus in her early years. “I want people to know that we’re just normal people,” she shared. Broadbent was adopted at birth by her parents after being abandoned at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. The disease was passed down by her mother, an IV drug user who left her at the hospit