Meet Nigel: AOC Peer Advocate

My name is Nigel and before working at AOC I was a client. Like a lot of clients, i was lost and confused and couldn't accept my diagnosis. I was also homeless at the time. AOC helped me find housing and they helped me have someone to talk to about my feelings. I felt like no one really understood what I was going though. One of the things we stress to our clients at AOC is that we truly understand what you are going through, whether you are positive or negative. If you are positive we often understand because we are living this life ourselves too. We have all experienced something like this and we want you to know we understand this is much more to living with HIV than just taking a pill every day. We allow clients to express how they feel and everything else I got to receive when I was a client here as well.