Real Health Fall 2011

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SOLUTION That’s what CSI: NY regular Hill Harper became when he committed himself to work as an HIV activist. By Kate Ferguson

hen Hill Harper played the role of a prisoner dying of AIDS in the 2000 independent film The Visit, he’d already seen the pain and suffering of people living with the virus in real life. At the time, he was in Harvard graduate school working on legal aid projects and meeting a lot of frightened folks being evicted from their homes because of their HIV status.

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