Living and Thriving with HIV – “People’s ideas, thoughts, and fears don’t define me”
At 31, Avena LaRue is not only a Seattle Central College student pursuing a degree in biotech engineering, but she’s also a woman on a mission: to cure HIV. LaRue discovered that she was HIV positive in 2017 after a fight with her father, during which she unintentionally cut her arm. The injury led to…

