Helping health care: After surviving a supposedly terminal AIDS diagnosis when she was 32, Julie Lewis started the 30/30 Project to take HIV-related services to needy people in far-off places. - MCT
A disease couldn't stop Julie Lewis from starting a new life and changing lives.
Julie Lewis remembers every last detail. The moving box she was carrying, the phone call, the doctor on the line telling her, “You better sit down.” You may have HIV, he told her. A blood transfusion Lewis received in 1984 hadn’t been tested for the virus. Washington state law didn’t require it until the following year. And the person who gave her the blood had AIDS.
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