Maria Mejia-Laing- HIV Activist & Global Ambassador

Maria is the co-author of the book From a Warrior’s Passion and Pain, a real life account of her 26-year battle with HIV. She is currently the co-chair of the Women and Minorities Outreach for the Dab the AIDS bear project.Maria is a part of the campaign, “Let’s Stop HIV Together” for the Center for Disease Control and an ambassador for the “The Stigma Project”.She is the Global Ambassador for The well project and CAB member ,Recruiter and is helping expand it to Latin America. She is also a spokesperson for Janssens new campaign Your HIV your wisdom and does consulting for them. She is also a part of a Huge campaign for Greater than AIDS and Kaiser partnered up with Planned parenthood ,The Well project ,PWN and Domestic abuse hotline .The campaign touches on Trauma ,HIV and IPV ( Intimate partner violence ) and it is moderated by Mrs Tonya Lee Lewis .

Diagnosed with HIV in 1991, Maria began a long journey finding hope, pride and passion in an undereducated society unprepared to deal with the growing epidemic of HIV and AIDS. After ten years without treatment Maria found herself at a crossroads. She could begin medical treatment or continue to slide towards death. Thankfully she chose to live and to fight for more than just her own health.Tune in and enjoy the show