Former North Texas resident wins lawsuit over HIV discrimination
When Sue Gibson tried to get treatment for an eating disorder at a clinic near St. Louis in November 2010, she was initially told there was a waiting list.
Gibson, 56, a Fort Worth native who had been HIV positive since 1989, said she didn't think this was odd and assumed she would be accepted in a few weeks. But as the months passed and her health deteriorated, she began to wonder.
"I had lost 20 pounds," Gibson said. "I was depressed and anxious and staying at home."
A former nurse who moved from North Texas to Missouri in 2004, Gibson was stunned when the caseworker at Castlewood Treatment Center for Eating Disorders mentioned she was unlikely to be admitted because she was HIV positive.
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