She Is 10. She Has HIV
by The Daily Eye Team December 1 2015, 2:03 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 31 secsThe fifth-grader with cornrows stepped from an elevator at Children?? National Medical Center and walked over the polished tile floor she had first crossed in a baby carrier. She rounded a corner and opened the door to Room?3400, its purposely generic name inscribed on a white panel: ??EDICAL SPECIALTIES.??Her adoptive mother, right hand on a metal cane, limped through the crowded waiting room as JJ pulled a Care Bears coloring page from a plastic file and sat down at a miniature table. She began outlining stars with a blue crayon, then spotted a pair of familiar performers. Read More at www.washingtonpost.com