Sophia Harrison has lived with epilepsy, breast cancer and HIV and is surviving all three, according to the Conversation. (Aamir Khuller)
Some 7,500 women were diagnosed with HIV in 2016 and the majority of them — 61 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — were black. HIV is just one of the health challenges, including breast cancer, diabetes and heart disease, that affects black women more often than women of other races. Read More
