Hear their STORIES. Experience their HOPE. Join the JOURNEY.

Watch the FOUR-PART sit-down series where Theratechnologies Community Liaison, MABLE TAPLIN RN, MSN, conducts interviews with DAVID ROBERTSON, SHADAWN MCCANTS, MASONIA TRAYLOR, AND ANGELA ZANIEYA HUNT celebrating LIVING & THRIVING with HIV.

  • David Robertson

    Hope Is Foundation | Founder

    MEET DAVID

  • Angela Zanieya Hunt

    Hope & Help | Transgender Services

    MEET ANGELA

  • Masonia Traylor

    Lady Burgundy | Founder

    MEET MASONIA

  • Shadawn McCants

    To Know Is To Live | Founder

    MEET SHADAWN

The mission of the I AM A CHAMPION | HOPE FOR THE JOURNEY campaign is to share the stories of African Americans with HIV who take on the hard tasks of fighting against stigma, advocating for the future and holding space for others who need to be empowered. In keeping with the Griot oral traditions of the West African Mande empire of Mali, the I AM A CHAMPION campaign creates safe spaces for authentic storytelling.*

*CDC estimates that, as of 2019, about 1.2 million people in the U.S. have HIV.
In 2019, Black people accounted for 13% of the U.S. population but 40% (479,300) of people with HIV.