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VANCOUVER — Lisa Partridge was 14 when she learned she was HIV-positive.
The teenager living in Comox, B.C., underwent a tainted blood transfusion when she was an infant in Romania. When she fell terribly ill at age one, her distraught parents searched for a cause until a doctor finally recommended HIV testing.
She tested positive. For the next 13 years, she took a daily cocktail of pills that she believed were for a congenital heart defect, from which she also suffers. When her parents told her the truth, she was stunned.
“I kind of remember freaking out a little bit and being like, ‘Oh my God,’ ” recalled Partridge, now 27. “But then I did more research into it and it’s not as bad as people thought it was.”