‘no longer a death sentence’
In the first video, Zachary Willmore is sitting in his childhood bedroom wearing a pink sweatshirt, his blond hair swooshed to the side, and begins applying makeup.
“Yesterday I found out that I got diagnosed with HIV,” Willmore says in the 48-second TikTok video. “I'm not posting this until I feel completely ready because honestly, I’m worried about people looking at me as untouchable. But people keep giving me hugs.”
Willmore, a 19-year-old freshman at San Diego State University, says he spent his winter break suffering from flu-like symptoms including fever, chills and nausea.
He took tests for the coronavirus, flu and STDs
