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Nina Martínez

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Multi-pandemic survivalist ahead of the K-M curve. Effective altruist: AIDS baby → living kidney donor. Producer: @iaoefilm #UncommonlyDecent . She/her.

Mvskoke land known as ATL, GA

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Joined April 2009

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Nina Martínez

2 months

The last time @DonateLife could mention HIV was Dec 1, 2021. Another "pro-transplant" org that can't even state scientific facts on the reg but they want you to believe they support all donations, that they support HOPE. Another org like @nkf that lets stigma win #DonateLifeMonth

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Donate Life America

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The #HOPEAct provides donation and transplant opportunities for people living with HIV. 200+ lifesaving transplants have been made possible because of the HOPE Act and the generosity of donors & donor families. 💙💚 #DonateLife #WorldAidsDay2021 @unosnews

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Nina Martínez

3 years

I said fuck stigma, didn't I? 38 yrs ago, someone donated blood that fixed my anemia of prematurity. I was born 12 wks early, 30% chance of survival. And in the longest of odds, I survived, acquiring HIV from that blood. 2.5 yrs ago, I donated a kidney to another person w HIV.

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Nina Martínez

3 years

Today, after 10 months of waiting, I formally started the living liver donor evaluation process. My kidney was changemaking. My blood sustains me. My liver (according to my last Fibroscans in 2019) has great fibrosis and steatosis scores. Let's try this.

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Nina Martínez

3 years

Am I going to narrate the play-by-play? Nah, I already had a very public first donation. I share this to say, it's a decision I have already thought about for 2 years at this point. There are living donors who have done this. Getting started is the hardest part. I did it. 🥰

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Nina Martínez

3 years

@yorkierussell05 It's super odd to me that people think I should be angry at the blood that gave me life. Definitely the stigma that pisses me off. Preemie power. 👊

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Nina Martínez

6 months

When I dumped my ex in 2003, he said to me, "You're gonna kill everyone you ever love," bc of my HIV status. Yeah, real winner there (/s) Bc of my HIV status, I gave life back (a kidney) to a 47 yo Black man whose identity idk, made medical history, & helped change GA law. 💅

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Wagatwe Wanjuki 🇰🇪 🇧🇸

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are there any stories of women leaving shitty exes with happy endings that don't depend on finding another partner?

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3 years

Take note: I am the Good Math Friend 🤣

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Nina Martínez

3 years

I was honestly expecting more tubes. 😅 My kidney isn't awake enough yet to provide the requisite pee, so good morning, Twitter. 💙💚

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Nina Martínez

3 years

Potential barriers to donation: - margs and fried chicken were part of this other pandemic survival kit - I am a short, puny person who donated a kidney through a 2" incision. Idk if my liver is large enough to divide safely. Donation is an intent, evaluation isn't a commitment.

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Nina Martínez

2 years

@DrSomedayMaybe Idk where I saw this on Twitter, but it resonated w me -- "people get offended when you aren't ashamed of things that they were taught to be ashamed of. They resent you for not caring what everybody thinks." ^helps me to "consider the source," which is my main coping strategy.

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Nina Martínez

3 years

38 years of living with HIV today. My late friends deserved the same longevity. 💔 In their honor and mine, still gonna make the bigots mad. A swimsuit arrives today that shall be evidence that I'm definitely still 🔥 even if I am living with HIV and perimenopausal.

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Nina Martínez

4 years

How I spent the last 5 yrs: registering Georgians w HIV to vote, defending the ACA that got them access to health insurance, enrolling them in the Marketplace to have access to health care, & trying to overturn Georgia's law that makes HIV a crime.... Yeah I cried this morning.

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1 year

People love to explain HIV to me like I'm still the 8 year old kid when I was diagnosed instead of the 39 year old woman who has been in charge of her care since she was 18 and became the country's first living kidney donor and is co-authoring that paper. Are you for real?

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Nina Martínez

2 years

@MelanieMoore Yep, same shit different day.

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Nina Martínez

2 years

@DrSomedayMaybe Idk where I saw this on Twitter, but it resonated w me -- "people get offended when you aren't ashamed of things that they were taught to be ashamed of. They resent you for not caring what everybody thinks." ^helps me to "consider the source," which is my main coping strategy.

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Nina Martínez

3 years

I got this idea from Brandi, fyi.

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Nina Martínez

5 years

Wishing @brandidai a speedy recovery after her 2nd living organ donation a couple of weeks ago. *bows down to all the #donatelife * @brandidai cc @TheLastAmanda

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Nina Martínez

3 years

The follow-up:

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Brandi Thornton

5 years

Meet my recipient Greyson. 💚

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5 years

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NowThis Impact

5 years

This woman just became the world’s first HIV positive kidney donor

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Nina Martínez

5 years

I don't understand why it's so difficult for people to just write article titles like, "Heart Or Lung Transplant Outcomes in Recipients Living with HIV." No meaning is lost here, just stigmatizing language. When I get the flu, I don't call myself "flu-infected." #LanguageMatters

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Maricar Malinis

@maricar_malinis

5 years

It is finally out . HEART OR LUNG TRANSPLANT OUTCOMES IN HIV-INFECTED RECIPIENTS - The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation #HIVtxp ⁦ @AST_IDCOP ⁩

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Nina Martínez

2 years

I'm HIV+. Yes, I have been a registered donor since Jan 2016. The HIV Organ Policy Equity Act of 2013 legalized the transplantation of organs from donors diagnosed with HIV into recipients living with HIV. This helps everyone waiting for the gift of more time, HIV+ or -.

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Nina Martínez

4 years

9 months ago today, I, a cis woman of color, donated a kidney while living with HIV. CNN thinks it's one of the best health stories of 2019.

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Things weren't all bad in 2019: - Iguanas were reintroduced to Galápagos island after 184 years - Two men may have been cured of HIV - NASA completed its first all-female astronaut spacewalk - And many more positive milestones

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Nina Martínez

3 years

@drzigel @fuzzymittens All donations count! There've been >220 transplants from deceased donors with HIV to other people living with HIV since 2016, boosting all people on the waitlist, regardless of HIV status.

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Nina Martínez

4 years

For real, y'all gotta stop following her. In addition, see my pinned tweet. If we're done with abusers, guess what, she is one. #medtwitter , she's no better than gu, just stop.

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Nina Martínez

6 months

NB: It has been legal for ten years for people diagnosed with HIV to donate organs to other people living with HIV. 431 organ transplants of this type have occurred since 2016. Invite y'all to get with the times. 💙💚

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Nina Martínez

5 years

Dr. Gunter is brewing truth tea. Drink up, skeptics!

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Jennifer Gunter

5 years

It is not separate. It can’t live without a uterus. Separate would mean you could drop the blastocyst on the street and someone could give it a bottle.

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Nina Martínez

2 years

39 years ago today, some scrawny ass 2½lb, 28-weeker was born. Had a grade III intraventricular hemorrhage, a collapsed lung, strabismus. 13 LPs + a blood transfusion later, ended up with a hitchhiker pandemic retrovirus. Later changed medicine and state law. Oh, IT ME. 🥳🎂🦄👋

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Nina Martínez

6 months

"You just haven't found the right person." Oh, I have. It's me, I am the best for me. I don't operate from a lack of something in my life (except dopamine) and think a person is supposed to complete me. Y'all wish you had this self-contentment. I highly recommend finding it.

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Nina Martínez

1 year

@LadyDoctorSays Brown people belong in planes, dammit.

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Nina Martínez

5 years

So in 2010, the United States lifted the travel ban that barred entry into the country by people living with HIV because the government realized that such bans were not based in the tenets of HIV prevention as science knows it. What the fuck is this? (h/t @GilmerHealthLaw )

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5 years

Wow --> Trump's CBP chief tells Rep. Raskin an immigrant's HIV status is enough to justify family separation at the border

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Once I figured out starting in 2005 that being single was my power, oh y'all cannot get me to go back.* My heart is too big to have a worldview dictated by allocisheteronormativity. *I will consider it at age 98, or whenever I am done doing what needs done.

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Nina Martínez

2 years

@AfibWithRiver I couldn't either, so I donated a kidney.

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First HIV-to-HIV Living Donor Kidney Transplant in the U.S. | Nina's...

Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center team performs the first reported HIV-to-HIV living donor kidney transplant in the U.S. Nina Martinez has been l...

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Nina Martínez

2 years

@aNurseDad @AfibWithRiver I was 8 when I was diagnosed. Thankfully, I didn't know there was anything to be ashamed of, so I wasn't. ♥️ Now 38, pffffftttt these still ignorant people wish I had shame. No, the shame is on them.

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Nina Martínez

5 years

$0, they want us to make $0.

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Katherine M. Gordon

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The people who belittle @AOC for being a former waitress are the same faulting @ewarren for billing out at $675/hr. So how much exactly should world-changing women make?

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Nina Martínez

2 years

Today is the 31st anniv of my first HIV test. It would be another 8 days before I got my HIV diagnosis at the age of 8. I grew up on Tricare and had to travel 2 hours each way to see my pedsHIV doc. I was called a waste of taxpayer dollars, trained in epi, and live to see this 👏

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ADM Rachel Levine

2 years

As we recognize #WorldAIDSDay and the progress made, I am proud of the @usphscc for changing its medical standards to accept future applicants living with chronic hepatitis B and HIV. Learn more here:

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Nina Martínez

5 years

The 90-90-90, I'd like to see: -90% of people living with HIV are paid a living wage through employment -90% of people living with HIV are stably housed -90% of HIV criminalization laws are modernized to current science And just maybe you'll see that other 90-90-90 #WAD2019

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Nina Martínez

3 years

Look, I am not a history buff but even I know this is ludicrous statement to make oh idk on the eve of the 30th something World AIDS Day.

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Nina Martínez

4 years

@cadiulus @DGlaucomflecken As someone living with HIV, I have a 15:00 race pace on marathons. I volunteer as bear chow. I may not be competent at running, but, contrary to popular perception, at least I'm immunocompetent. 😆

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Nina Martínez

7 years

@PattyArquette @JeremyLRedmon love that I get to vote for him 😍

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Nina Martínez

3 years

@NBL2006 @yorkierussell05 I think it's in FDA IVF regs (2006) that neither sperm, egg, or surrogate have HIV or Hep, but surely trying to get medical care hurts owing to stigma, too. It was '97 (14 yrs post-transfusion) before I was tested for HepC. A lot of the regs need harmonization w current science.

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Nina Martínez

3 years

@redshoes721 @emmatsalageek I was raised Roman Catholic am now atheist, HIV+ 37 years, and donated a kidney last year to another person living with HIV. Your dad deserved better. As did my friends whose end of life/burial wishes were not respected bc of family's religious views.💔

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Nina Martínez

1 year

Happy 4th kidney divorce anniv to me, & happy 4th transplantaversary to my also medical history-making recipient. Hope the journey was smoother. No regrets on the donation part, none. The research part, uh, they can do better. HIV has changed & so should we. #HOPEtransplants .

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Nina Martínez

2 years

"We have to stop acting like catching [coronavirus] is some kind of personal moral failure." Y'all, it's been 40 years of HIV and you all still haven't gotten there yet with that pandemic virus. But okay, sure, this one is different.

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Nina Martínez

5 years

I updated my deceased donor registration semi-recently as the scope of organs for HIV-to-HIV transplants increases (currently livers & kidneys; forthcoming: hearts & lungs) so someday when I don't need them anymore, the party can go on. 💚💙

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Salty AF 🫁♻️

5 years

Today I’m 8 months post transplant. In this time I’ve celebrated our twins bday, spent time with Wyatt, enjoyed date night with my wife, and so much more. None of this would be possible without my donor. My life is more amazing than I could have imagined. 💙♻️ 💚 #DonateLife

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Nina Martínez

5 years

Taking orders from Gen. Jen, MD.

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Jennifer Gunter

5 years

Army of the Vaginal Anti-Christ, bitches

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Nina Martínez

5 years

I cringe when @RepAOC asks whether Truvada for PrEP is the only drug known to prevent the transmission of HIV. The answer is no. People w HIV who have access to antiretroviral treatment that keeps their viral load undetectable for >6mos cannot transmit HIV to others.

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NowThis Impact

5 years

. @AOC asked this pharma exec why a life-saving HIV drug costs nearly $2,000 in the U.S. and $8 in Australia

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Nina Martínez

4 years

I shall call this collection of photos, "Which twin has the [transfusion-acquired since 6 weeks old] HIV?" It me, 37 years and counting. #WorldAIDSDay

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3 years

@vmontori Know that she always spoke so highly of you, and we know she was the utmost arbiter of quality. 💜

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Nina Martínez

5 years

World’s First HIV-To-HIV Kidney Transplant With Living Donor Succeeds via @khnews Nicely done, @victoriaregisk !

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Nina Martínez

4 years

An estimated 32.0 million people have died from AIDS-related illnesses from the HIV epidemic's inception through the end of 2018. So no, life didn't just go on. 😠

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Aaron Rupar

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INGRAHAM: We don't have a vaccine for SARS or HIV. Life went on, right? FAUCI: HIV/AIDS is very different. We have effective treatments. And SARS went away. So your comparison is misleading. I: But coronavirus could disappear too. F: These kind of viruses don't just disappear.

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Nina Martínez

3 years

@NBL2006 @yorkierussell05 I was going to offer an egg for my gay HIV+ friends way back when, but alas no dice.

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Nina Martínez

8 years

When your grandfather was shot three times as a Japanese P.O.W. in WWII and didn't dodge the American draft. #thatmexicanthing #PurpleHeart

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Nina Martínez

4 years

💙 Had surgery, saved a life 💚 #2019in5words #donatelife #shareyourspare #HOPEtransplants

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Nina Martínez

5 years

I really do like doctors, but some of y'all have this patronizing, gatekeeping, savior, MDeity complex that my T-cells will not get down with. I am a patient, but also a highly qualified skilled human in my own right. Your privilege will be checked.

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Nina Martínez

5 years

Thank you, Jeff! It shouldn't cost money to donate an organ, but until there are comprehensive supports in place for living donors, here we are...

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Jeff Berry

5 years

The first person in the U.S. living with HIV donated a kidney to another person with HIV. Please consider making a donation to help pay for Nina's expenses not covered by insurance. Every little bit helps, and please share widely! @nkf @HopkinsMedicine

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Nina Martínez

3 years

My follower count seems to drop when I tweet about asexuality, aromanticism, atheism, HIV, being childfree, being a brown woman, LGBTQ topics... Toodles, unevolved beings. My existence is something I believe in, clearly.

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Nina Martínez

3 years

@DrJenGunter We also see how many lives are considered disposable among those professing to be "pro life," so there's that.

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Nina Martínez

5 years

Saying no to people who won't pay me for my time has been pretty great. "We don't have a budget to compensate you." And yet, YOU still manage to get funding to take up MY time. Your mag/blog/etc. still gets published. I have donated enough, y'all.

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Nina Martínez

10 months

Opponents of training center say they’ve collected 100,000 signatures for #StopCopCity ballot referendum

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Opponents of training center say they’ve collected 100,000 signatures for ballot referendum

That's well over the 58,000 signatures required by city law.

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Nina Martínez

30 days

@RyanMarino *nods head in original intended kidney transplant recipient died four months before I could donate* Today, I got the White House's attention. Because of them, we keep going.

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Nina Martínez

9 months

@thesherylralph It's the shirt tug at the end for me, relatable post- mic drop moment for those of us blessed from the chest in all the ways. ✊ ♥️

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Nina Martínez

5 years

A disabled friend of mine who is a single parent called me to tell me Georgia is a terrible place for disabled people. She's an attorney. (Don't I know it...) Q: Is there a state that doesn't have snow, is affordable, that is decent to people with physical disabilities?

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Nina Martínez

2 years

Happy #AceWeek2022 ! 🧁💜♠️

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Nina Martínez

3 years

@jfrickuga @maureviv They say statistics are human stories with the tears wiped off. Definitely resonates in times like these.

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Nina Martínez

1 year

I'm not course correcting for funsies. I am course correcting because I know when I see something wrong, and how it harms patients. Instead of mansplaining a pandemic I have also been a part of my entire life, learn to take a meeting @CarlosdelRio7 .

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Nina Martínez

11 months

Year 39, day 365 living with HIV. Never too early for cake.

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Nina Martínez

6 months

@RyanMarino I was responsible for a research group submitting an IRB amendment bc they asked potential participants with HIV, "Are you HIV-infected?," compared to a survey screener aimed at assumedly HIV-negative folks, "Have you been diagnosed with HIV, hepatitis B, or hepatitis C?" 🤔

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Nina Martínez

3 years

*cracks knuckles* Credit: @JennhasADHD

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Nina Martínez

1 year

People really think we condom'd our way out of an HIV pandemic that's now over..... Whew, do I have news for them.

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Nina Martínez

1 year

It's txp centers & organ procurement organizations' job to decide what's transplantable. Your registration is a willingness to donate, not a commitment. Txp candidates make decisions w txp professionals about transplantation. Sincerely, A registered HIV+ living donor.

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Nina Martínez

1 year

Worth repeating until it's understood.

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Nina Martínez

1 year

You keep framing patients as hard to reach when it's clear you've made yourself hard to connect with. Let's be clear.

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Nina Martínez

4 years

This roach/virus analogy strikes again. It's a terrible analogy. Quit using it to describe illness. It is stigmatizing people who are sick. Do better. Find more appropriate #healthcomm messaging.

@RichardEngel

Richard Engel

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A dr treating coronavirus victims in hong kong just told me he doesn't think the world is aware of the dangers. Thinks, based on what he’s seen, the virus is far more widespread than being reported. “If you see one cockroach, you know there are more”

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Nina Martínez

2 years

Forget marriage equality, it's unmarried equality that people need.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki 🇰🇪 🇧🇸

2 years

How romantically lovable or desirable you are shouldn't play such a large role in how much resources, support, and connection you get as an adult. *that's* the injustice. *that's* what we should focus on.

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Nina Martínez

5 years

So much of HIV care could be improved if expert medical professionals would care enough to evaluate the knowledge and health communication expertise of their frontline clinicians. For years, Atlanta's HIV patients have lamented stigmatizing treatment.

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Nina Martínez

4 years

@AmmahStarr @AmyGDalaMD Do not despair. We, the unlicensed, will petty on in your absence. ✊

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Nina Martínez

4 years

@emilyt804 @CoreyTapper @PettyHomoMD @US_FDA As someone living with HIV who donated a kidney last year (to someone also living with HIV), I appreciate the sentiment and your open-mindedness.

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Nina Martínez

2 years

@Tinu 40 years of people referring to my body as a vector, weapon, etc. did zero to stem HIV transmissions. This isn't the first pandemic in which those in power politicized public health to achieve their racist, classist ends.

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Nina Martínez

4 years

The cuddle pig knows his shit. Good dog.

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Rex the TV Terrier ® 🐾

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4 years

Trump lost. Covid is real. Black lives matter. Mass shooters are terrorists. #TruthMatters

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Nina Martínez

4 years

Dear person who has my left kidney, Happy New Year off dialysis. 🎉 They say hindsight is 20/20, but in 2020, we will help move science & society fwd... all bc you accepted me as your donor. Thank you for that privilege. -Me #donatelife #shareyourspare #HOPEtransplants

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Nina Martínez

2 years

. @Cannonfor58 has just informed me that we have passed legislation to modernize Georgia's HIV criminalization laws. Not a joke, and I will proceed to uglycry.

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Nina Martínez

3 years

I want to see the day that living organ donation is celebrated as much as we celebrate babies. "I had a baby" Everyone: *squee* "I want to donate a piece of my body to someone to give them their life back." Everyone: Omg-no why? Don't do it. You don't even know them.

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Nina Martínez

1 year

@colleenmfarrell This doesn't surprise me when you consider who gets a career in medicine vs. who is doing the hired childcare.

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Nina Martínez

5 years

"There is such a pressure on people w chronic health conditions & disabilities to be inspiring & extraordinary. Sometimes just getting out of bed in the morning is an extraordinary achievement. . . . Society needs to change, not you!" *nods* *needs a nap*

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Nina Martínez

3 years

The person with my left kidney doesn't have to worry about affording their meds that enable them to keep the gift. 💙💚

@UNOSNews

United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)

3 years

Congress passes a bill to extend #medicare coverage for kidney recipients' immunosuppressive medication for the entire life of their transplant. #TransplantTwitter #DonateLife #KidneyTransplant

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Nina Martínez

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That first tweet is why I have been invited to IDWeek 2023 as expert faculty, just fyi. Cuz I know shit. 💅 Way to go, former Navy baby.

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Nina Martínez

4 years

@NotDrSnit Maybe a little birdie tune....

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Nina Martínez

2 years

@saltylungs I was a more stoic person pre-donation, side effect of military brat life. I blame altered anatomy for lowered threshold for onion-cutting stories, such as the one you have shared. Also, bc my orig intended recipient died, I like to hear stories I don't get to from him. 💙💚♻️

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Nina Martínez

4 years

I wish ppl were more specific when they repeat the rhetoric of "end HIV," "end AIDS," or "end the epidemic." What you mean is: ending new HIV transmissions & finding a cure. Because the end of me & people like me (aka our deaths) will also achieve your fascist sounding aims.

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Nina Martínez

5 years

Wishing @brandidai a speedy recovery after her 2nd living organ donation a couple of weeks ago. *bows down to all the #donatelife * @brandidai cc @TheLastAmanda

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Colorado woman who donated a kidney getting ready to donate part of her liver too

FREDERICK, Colo. – A Colorado woman is about to become one of only a handful of people nationwide known as a “double donor”. Brandi Thornton has already donated one of her kidneys to a stranger. No…

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Nina Martínez

4 years

From being born 12 weeks early, requiring blood to save my life, acquiring HIV in the process, to: - donating an organ while diagnosed with HIV, 35 years later and - today marking 12 weeks of participation as part of a phase III coronavirus vaccine trial Helluva job, science.

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Nina Martínez

1 year

Day 1,460 living with one kidney. Day 14,478 living with HIV. I went from a 30% chance of survival to a very decent one, so much so, that I shared my excess. But that it was easy, no problem, or someone else didn't die because of it is untrue bc ~40 years of stigma is a lot.

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Nina Martínez

4 years

As much as I hate to be that person who says "all people living with HIV," well... ^this one likes to hide her rilpivirine in a doughnut, is a marathoner, and donated a kidney. Mark can take his fork and shove it.

@RyanMarino

Ryan Marino, MD

4 years

Persons born with HIV live healthy, normal lives because of pharmaceuticals. Childhood lymphoma is highly curable with prescription medications. I can run for miles in the freezing cold despite having asthma because of a couple pills and an inhaler. Mark Hyman is despicable.

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Nina Martínez

3 years

@jillosopher Proximity to menopause (yay premature aging attributable to HIV) got my living organ donor biologic clock ticking, not the uterine one 😅. Not that menopause is a contraindication to donation, but the body changes lots, and so would like to do it before then.

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Nina Martínez

3 years

Happy Doctors Day only to the doctors who don't think my illness should be criminalized and who are rooting for my right kidney's survival bc you don't do that stigmatizing HIV BS. 😊

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Nina Martínez

4 years

🎉 Happy first kidneyversary to me!

@HopkinsMedicine

Johns Hopkins Medicine

@HopkinsMedicine

5 years

Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center team performs the first-ever reported HIV-to-HIV living kidney donation.

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Nina Martínez

1 year

The hill am dying on today: Surgically consenting a patient to a research procedure an hour before procedure time is coercive. I know y'all love to do it, and we consent anyway, but it's hella weird. I don't know why that seems hard for researchers to imagine.

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Nina Martínez

5 years

<-- Who has two kidneys and just today got her donor approval letter to get rid of one?! Meeeeee. So when I said 7 mos ago, "I think I would make a great [living kidney] donor candidate because..." I SAID WHAT I SAID #shareyourspare #donatelife :) :)

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Nina Martínez

5 years

True facts. Left kidney is off doing amazing things in its next life. Just you & me now, righty. #DonateLifeMonth #shareyourspare #donatelife #HOPEtransplants

@HopkinsMedicine

Johns Hopkins Medicine

@HopkinsMedicine

5 years

On March 25, Nina Martinez had a healthy kidney removed at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, becoming the United States’ first person living with HIV to donate a kidney.

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Nina Martínez

1 year

@AdrianCJax @lanee_gee "w/ a fully developed prefrontal cortex" 😂😂😂 so true though.

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Nina Martínez

4 years

Maybe you need to speak to your WaPo colleague @LennyMBernstein about why this is an irresponsible statement for a journalist to make.

@JRubinBlogger

Jennifer "Trump Convicted Felon" Rubin 🇺🇦🇮🇱

4 years

maybe we need a federal law making it a felony to knowingly expose someone to a deadly disease.

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Nina Martínez

5 years

@mattbc My left kidney came out of the surgical field in a plastic bag. Emptied into a bowl lined in plastic, filled with ice, to be prepped for transplantation so it could... guess... SAVE A LIFE.

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Nina Martínez

2 years

Let me tell you about the time Matt Cortland, after insisting what I was talking about wasn't what he was talking about decided to drop me $10 for a concept he realized he got from me for a byline in the Independent... about brown children. 🤷‍♀️

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Opinion: Trump's plan to cage kids indefinitely while denying them vaccines is ethnic cleansing in...

Despite three children already dying of the flu while in US custody, the Trump administration is now refusing to vaccinate children in detention. How many more will die in cages?

www.independent.co.uk

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Nina Martínez

1 year

Here's the spoiler: People in so-called COVID "advocacy" discourse and a bunch of long COVID "advocates" do not know a damn person w HIV they can run their shitty comparisons and (incorrect) recollections of history by and are uh, not surprisingly, serophobic. They cherry-pick.

@mynameisjro

Jason Rosenberg

1 year

LIKE HOW DARE YOU MAKE THESE TALKING POINTS….. IN A POST ABOUT ACT UP???? I quit seriously. People out here are endorsing criminalization language.

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