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"People think knowing your status changes your life. It does change your life, but it doesn't change anything else. If you're a mother, you're still a mother. If you're a grandmother, you're still a grandmother. If you're an employee, you're still an employee. If you're a voter, you're still a voter," she said.

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SOURCES: Nov. 20, 2008, teleconference with John Bartlett, M.D., professor of medicine, division of infectious diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Veronica Miller, Ph.D., executive director, Forum for Collaborative HIV Research; Kevin Fenton, M.D., director, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Richard Rothman, M.D., Johns Hopkins University; Deadra Lawson Smith, Living Quilt project member and community liaison/peer advocate, South Carolina HIV/AIDS Council